United StatesA decision has been made, a new category will be added once I become more familiar with that version of the game and can begin to iron out a clear ruleset. Thank you for the contribution! I am open to any ideas you may have about a ruleset!
Run will be reviewed and a new category can potentially be added, may need to iron out a few rules first though, thank you for the contribution! Updates will be posted in about a week!
After reviewing their application and conferring with LynnCarius, we have decided to promote them to moderator. Welcome to the team!
He is a good dude and veteran speedrunner! Welcome to the crew!
Now that I have finally resolved the matter of correspondence and have become the sole mod, I plan to finally iron out a set of rules for each category that is clear, concise and descriptive. No current runs will be removed however all future runs will be subject to the pending rules. Thank you all for your patience!
At last report I saw the speedrun submitted by Moliman was delegated to you, but it seems that you have since delegated the review to me. I have messaged Moliman with a few questions I have about the speedrun, most notably the lack of a timer and frame counter, which I know you prefer and which is why I delegated review and approval of the run to you in the first place.
Once I have gotten a response from Moliman, I had hoped to correspond with you on where we stand in regards to acceptable speedrun submissions for the leaderboard, but it seems that you have me blocked and I cannot message you. This is not unity that is becoming of speedrun moderators and is causing issues once again, just like it did with the big 20 last year.
In all honesty and integrity, what the hell is your problem dude? I have reported you to the administration here before due to your dissonance with speedrunners here, and in my honest opinion, your lack of being professional and downright rude behavior, which is reflected in our message board here.
The previous discord I created was lost when my phone stopped working and I had to get a new one. Discord screwed me over and I had to start a new account. Your speedruns should be submitted here once you have fully reviewed the rules for each category. I may notion to create a new discord soon if there is enough interest in it.
Welcome to the speedrunning community! Any questions just ask here, or message me directly!
As far as I can tell there are no major time differences on the steam platform, although there has not been any testing done on it as of yet.
Feel free to submit runs using the steam version, they will be reviewed and if anything major is discovered I may add a new sub for steam runs specifically.
Even if you set all the debug cheat options to OFF, if the memory option is not set to "CLR", and the debug cheats have already been enabled on the cart previously, the save battery remembers that and the cheats will still be active. One way to confirm this is if your RCI meters stay at max demand and never change, this affirms that the Valve Max debug cheat option is enabled. The debug code menu will only display the memory option to "SET" when the code has been entered and enabled previously.
600K Population speedrun category does NOT allow for the debug code to be used in any form.
There could be differences in these versions of the game, testing will need to be done at some point in the future.
What version of the game are you playing? You will see once the code is off that your RCI meter will be in flux.
There is no way you can retain maximum demand for all Residential, Commercial and Industrial zones unless the Debug code is on. Your RCI meters never changed at all during this entire run, that confirms to me the debug code was enabled.
It seems there are still some lingering issues in regards to category rules. In addition runs with videos that are no longer available will be removed. Runners are free to resubmit the runs for verification as long as the video is available to view.
After the overhaul of the leaderboards some time ago, there were issues with some drafts not being saved and updated. I have gone through all of the categories and sub categories, and refreshed the page to ensure that everything is displaying correctly.
If anyone notices any further issues pleases let me know.
CzaR is the moderator of 9 different games, that's too much for 1 person
Been doing it for nearly a decade now. Never had any issues, the protocols here state a maximum of a two week, or fourteen day window post speedrun submission, that the mods have to adequately review them. I have never had a run that was submitted take longer than 13 days to verify or reject. I understand runners are eager and anxious to get their runs approved, but real life schedules are a thing.
There were additional moderators added per request, and I am always open to the notion of bringing on more if required. However those profiles just vanished from SR.com and I was left as the sole mod.
If timing differences can be proven and evidence provided, this can certainly be discussed further, as it has never been an issue previously for this game. Timing differences can vary game to game and console to console, the only people who really can tell a major or minor difference are those running the game, or using such an exploit to cheat time saves.
This is a topic across many competitive speedrun leaderboards and communities, and while most popular games have already been plotted, routed, and a defined set of rules has been established, less popular games remain a bit of a gray area. If anyone else has additional feedback or input I certainly welcome it. If we can come to a consensus then I can begin to edit the rules and leaderboards. Until then no current speedruns will be removed and or moved to alternate categories.
