Global Rules
5 years ago
United States

As it stands, you must make a custom rule list for every single standard category within a game. While this is effective in communicating the rules of a speedgame, there are a few problems. Sometimes, all of the categories will share a couple of the same rules, like how videos are handled or what versions of the game are allowed. Under the current way the rules are set up, you can either redundantly paste these directions in every single rule box, or simply put it in the main category one and hope that everyone will see it there and realize it applies to all categories.

I propose that we can set a list of global rules for a speedgame that will show up above or below the specific subcategory rules, perhaps with a thin divider. It would also be nice if we could choose specific categories that would "opt out" of the global ruleset, in case it does not match all of them.

PresJPolk, NerdyNester and 8 others like this
Antarctica

[quote]what[/quote] I really don’t know how anything said in the OP was confusing but if you want an example...

https://www.speedrun.com/alttp ALTTP has 2 sets of rules that apply on a wide scale and you can see these in the rules for each category/sub category. The first is called “Global Rules” which apply at a category level and apply to each sub category. Then you have “Emulator Rules” which apply to basically every category and sub category. What the OP is suggesting is to be able to create a set of rules that apply to an entire board and have a button to display those below the existing rules button.

In my example, ALTTP can create a global set of rules that outlines what emulator is allowed, what configurations are needed, etc. and have that show on every category they apply it to instead of pasting the same chunk of text in every rules on every category. I like the idea, I think it would be useful, especially when bigger boards undergo rule changes (its easier to change in one place than 10 places).

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Netherlands

Yeah I've had this with a few of my games. An example being https://www.speedrun.com/The_Lair where:

"Timing starts when you've selected the difficulty and get control of the character.

Timing ends on final hit on the boss."

appears in every category's description, the only variation is "Must be played on X difficulty" which is on the nose, but I figured I'd add it. I've also seen PICO-8 games like it having the rule "Put it in Web if played in browser, PC if played on the PICO-8" and redundantly put them in each category. A "this rule fits every category in this game" rule does seem seem like a nice addition.

Russia

don't you just use the category rules to add whatever stuff you want first, and then add the specific/subcategories rules, based on w/e you wanna see in the lbs? it's not something new, if the community needs more "specific" regulations, they'll do smth.

you don't need over 9k rules for some crappy flash games, based on your emulator version/cpu/game version, unless they fuck up the basic run. and you also can do the current patch/version - past patch/version thing.

Netherlands

We're not talking about adding rules to all games on the site(I do admit I thought that was what this was about initially when I read "global rules"), this is more about moderators getting a way to show that a rule applies to every category in a game, without needing to copypaste it all over.

Did you see the link that @Timmiluvs put in his reply to you? Here's a screenshot if you're lazy: https://i.imgur.com/iIkDkkh.png

Those "GLOBAL RULES" and "EMULATOR RULES" are put in every single category for that game, it's redundant. I don't blame the mods of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it's just that the site currently has no way of doing this. If you want a rule to apply on every category, this is currently the only way.

Again, this has nothing to do with adding some rule to every leaderboard on the site or "some crappy flash games" or whatever. It's a problem more relevant to larger games with various categories anyways.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
TheGreatToddman, Quivico and 3 others like this
Richmond, VA, USA

I like this idea, anything that can streamline the moderator role.

Imaproshaman and Legs like this
Australia

I ended up just creating a pastebin and shoving the rules down there and linking it on each of the category's rules

Esperanto

I'm not really sure how much effort it would take to make that possible, but, yes it would be convenient.

Imaproshaman likes this
United States

I would love to have this feature. There are a lot of rules that make sense to write up for a game, that aren't category specific. It would be pretty crazy to write a lengthy list of rules about emulators, key bindings, valid consoles, and such, and have to duplicate it for every single category.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
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