What Games have an in game timer and use it?
5 years ago
New Jersey, USA

part of the problem is that you're forcing people who want to speedrun competitively to not be able to. you can't speedrun competitively if you have no idea if your competition is even legitimate. you can't be competitive in a lax setting.

you can, however, be lax in a competitive setting. there's no one stopping you from just comparing to yourself, without the leaderboards. hell, you can still compare to others without proof, for yourself. no one can compare against you though, not accurately, if they even believe you.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
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United States

Hey @Bemels, I understand where you're coming from, but the other side to this from a community perspective is that it's actually a disservice to the rest of the community to have runs that can't be properly verified.

Certainly there can be exceptions, and some communities prefer an honors system that doesn't require verification anyways, but in general it tends to hurt the rest of the runners to not be able to see where folks did things right and wrong, and what strategies were used. It also hurts the board history as you can't see how strategies have evolved in the course of an individuals runs, and it also hurts the runner themselves, as they can't see exact spots they need to work on, and can't ask for feedback. On top of all that, it's also disheartening to new runners who might go to great lengths to legitimatize their runs to be beaten by a picture.

Like folks have mentioned, the bar is not high.

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Finland

Seems like everybody is completely misunderstanding what i am saying, Look at the Kamiko board, we have around 30 runs in our most popular category. Two of those are only verified by pictures, and guess what, they would be the slowest runs even if we would time the game by in hame time but we don't, so the runs automatically drop to the last spot. In my opinion it's better to include those runs rather than outright reject them, so far no one has complained about them on discord or the board.

United Kingdom

And that's your standard. Most communities care about proof for every run, because we want to maintain a high standard.

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

@Bemels So? That doesn't make it the right way.

United States

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