Hello! I'm an old time Sanicball speedrunner from 0.5.2 and 0.6.2. I'm thinking about joining the speedrunning community again, and I've been wondering if the community is still active nowadays. I see some recent forum posts, so I'm assuming users are still here, but what about the mods? Are they still around and approving runs? If so, I might be able to compare with others on where I stand. However, there has been updates which alters the physics and maps of the game (specifically 0.7+) and it seems that there needs to be extra categories for versions of the game. Thank you for any replies!

Poe hasn't been around the site for 5+ months, Kykinson still approves runs and is active on the site but he doesn't comment much around the forums and hasn't logged in for 10 days or so. He has a lot of games where he is mod so not sure if keeps himself up-to-date with sanic ball.

I agree that the change of engine brought a whole new set of phisics on the game (balls doesn't get stuck on the ground like 0.6.2) a the new GHZ definitely shows that the dev wants to make the game go on another direction (less meme and more level upgrades/reworks).

One ideia I had for that is to create 2 main categories: Version 0.6.2 and Current Patch.

Version 0.6.2 would have as sub-categories the same categories that are in the leaderboard right now: -All Stages - 2 laps - No Super Sanic; -All Stages - 2 laps - Super Sanic; -All Stages - 3 laps - NSS.

This is mostly to preserve the leaderboards and the people who likes the version, be it for being faster than current patch or like the memes.

Current Patch could have the same sub-categories but not knowing how people are going to react to the new version I would only put: -All Stages - 2 laps - No Super Sanic; -All Stages - 2 laps - Super Sanic.

This is just to see if the new version gets popular more than anything. The catch is, when a new patch is introduced there could be 2 options:

• If the game introduces a new/reworked version of an existing stage or add a new level, all previous runs on the category ( Current Patch only, 0.6.2 would always remain the same) would recieve Obsolete status, as it's not going to be comparable with previous patches (0.7 can't be compared with 0.8 because one of the stages are completely different and so on). -If the patch introduces just small bug fixes or a new character, as long as it's not broken as Super Sanic and have unfair advantage over the other ones, the previous runs on the category would remain as they are.

At least i found this way of re-organizing the leaderboard fair for everyone. People who like the old version run that, people who wants to re-do his runs whe newer patches are introduced can also do that.

All in all, we need to wait for kykinson to log in (i sent him a twitch pm and a tweet) and if he doesn't appear on 10 more days we could ask on the moderation thread for a third mod who is hopefully more active to be added and carry the changes if there is enough support (and 3 people is enough imo, me, you and icer).

Probably gonna do a run on 0.8.1 soon to have more stuff pending. Keeping the discussion would be nice too.