Should the leaderboard be split? [DISCUSSION/VOTING]
5 years ago
Victoria, Australia

This will be my last post here, and this transcends everything else I've written, so read up.

I'm completely sick of this discussion, sick of the RNG manipulators' rhetoric, sick of pie's claims that a change to an arbitrary spreadsheet on a website that never used to exist will somehow make people want to play a game, sick of the drama, sick of fucking everything.

My vote goes to keeping the boards the same for the simple fact that I couldn't be bothered dealing with this anymore, and let it be known that if I'm forced to play on an emulator to get onto a leaderboard in a speedrun, I fully intend to boycott said leaderboards entirely, emulator shouldn't be allowed for speedruns in the first place, so the thought of it being a requirement is a fucking joke.

MrDevious likes this
Rhode Island, USA

My vote is that the categories should most definitely be split. Considering more people run/race no manip, it seems silly to have it just be a sub-category since times will still be listed alongside runs with manip. However, I disagree with the idea that "Legacy%" should be listed under misc considering it's the most popular way to play the game. The boards should be something like this:

  • Any% [RNG Manip allowed]
  • Any% (No RNG Manip)
  • New Game+ Misc:
  • World Tournament
  • 100%
Edited by the author 5 years ago
São Paulo, Brazil

HOLY SHIT out of ALL the possibilities, the FM Community strikes again and does a really, really bad choice. You realize that the "misc" section is only useful when the game has a lot of categories, right? And FM has like, four (if you assume that "100%" is a speedrun, which it isn't). What's so difficult about putting Any% - NCD, Trading, No THTD as subcategories, as well as NG+ - English, Japanese? (or "hacked cards%" since apparently nobody who has the pocketstation knows which cards you can actually get) Do you HAVE to put every single thing that the oldboys FM crew despises as "Misc", and in a purposely unorganized manner?

And yeah - Rather than making actual significant changes such as compiling the ruleset the way I posted on that google doc and simple sub-category splits, instead, let's move everything to the "misc" section and add SEASONS, which is a very bad idea that will serve no purpose, to it as well.

No wonder that everyone that isn't brazilian is repelled from this game and community. Keep making bad changes and not knowing how to run a speedrun leaderboard after 5 years of not-trying.

theurnator likes this
São Paulo, Brazil

Guys I KNOW it's difficult, but picture the leaderboards this way: https://i.imgur.com/97MuiJb.png Does it look simpler and more efficient? It's because it is. I know, right, it doesn't require too much thinking to come up with this solution. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_q6os2yYYReR_CVkUtQ1DkippHAhqt8j4VP2WFOOKI8 Do the rulesets become way more readable and less line-skip-new-thing-no-cohesion-at-all? I know, right, surprising! Not to mention deleting a few irrelevant lines such as that RTA llanfair one.

DieKyo likes this
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