I feel as though there should be other catagories for runs completed on diffrent ships. This would allow even solo players to have a chance to compete against galleons and brigs for good times. This would span across all catagories such as athena voyages and the tall tale catagories.

I understand wanting this completely, especially considering I'm always solo sloop. Thing is you then have the 2 main athena categories plus the 10 adventure mode tall tales being split into 3 groups each. This ends up giving us 36 categories already. The community is definitely active, but not enough that we'd see any competition within all these categories. At the end of the day if you need a crew im sure you aren't the only one who wants a speedrun crew. Tall tales also have scaling difficulty based on crew size. Tt1 is always gonna be fastest on a brig but any with a boss fight will likely be faster solo because bosses scale with crew size. I think if more categories were being added it'd be solo vs with a crew. But I don't think it'll be too hard to find a speedrun crew. It depends on community opinions, but having loads of categories no-one will have a run in seems pointless. Im not saying my mind can't be changed, but having a co-ordinated crew is part of the run in my eyes.

The world record for 100% was held by a solo sloop for a good bit of time. TazedandConfused. Its currently at 3rd place with a strong time.