It has been brought to our attention that the start timing of OSRS categories, specifically, Tutorial Island, seem off and should be changed.
Let's go into detail.
With a competitive category such as Tutorial Island, frames and tenths of seconds matter. As you may know, Old School Runescape operates in ticks, which equates to 0.6 seconds per tick. With our current start placement for runs (i.e clicking the accept button), there is a possibility where the moment you click accept, a tick had already started and you're waiting for the next game tick to occur while you already started the counter. This is a problem as you may lose time just by not starting on the right tick.
To combat this issue, the moderators were suggested that the start time for Tutorial Island be moved from clicking accept to starting the timer after the accept screen (character creation screen), disappears. Upon hearing this idea, the moderators agreed that such change is understandable and should be implemented. Also from a moderation perspective, it would be easier to time the exact moment a run "starts" compared to the way it is now. With the way it is now, it can be hard to tell when a runner exactly clicks accept if their mouse shows no click action, whereas it is easier to tell exactly when the accept screen disappears.
EDIT: We are now interested in applying this new timing change to all categories. This would mean all runs would be re-timed to incorporate this new start timing.
What's the point of this thread then? Well, we as moderators like to be transparent and community-involved, hence this thread. Mainly, we were interested in if there would be any reason NOT to implement this change of start time. If there is any reason we missed or any reason you think is notable feel free to list below.
TL;DR (EDIT : 11/18/2017) New start time for ALL RTA CATEGORIES. New start time changed from clicking accept to accept screen (character creation) disappearing. If you have any opinion to why this change should not take place, feel free to post below.
Sounds good. The other resolution to this issue I thought of was to force everyone to right-click accept so you know for sure when they clicked it or not. Both are good options but I feel like this makes it easier to time runs.
Sounds good. As well, I assume it's up to the poster to get as close as possible to the tick appearing in Lumbridge for the end, going back and manually adjusting for submission.
