Västerbotten, SwedenDiscord server: https://discord.gg/R6cqEYtsTW
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParadoxSpeedruns/
The MotE-specific discord can be found in the side menu here on the leaderboard.
There now exists a general Paradox speedrunning community that seeks to create a more interconnected community between the different Paradox games. Feel free to join in there if you want:
Discord server: https://discord.gg/R6cqEYtsTW
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ParadoxSpeedruns/
I'm here to announce that RTA Unrestricted has been officially removed as a subcategory, so henceforth RTA NS5 will be the only real-time subcategory and the use of Speed 5 will be officially banned from all RTA runs. Keep in mind that you're allowed to change your game speed before starting the timer, so take your time to make sure you don't set your game speed higher than 4 before unpausing (hit the speed-increase button/hotkey 3 times to reach speed 4).
The old RTA Unrestricted runs have not been deleted, but rather moved to a new Legacy category found under Misc. This was done just to preserve these runs, so no new submissions will be accepted there.
As far as I know, all leaderboard times must be submitted in the format of Hours, Minutes, Seconds, and possibly Milliseconds. What I'm asking is whether it would be possible to display and rank times using other units of time besides these, maybe as an alternative option you can set for a given leaderboard?
The reason I'm asking is because I run and moderate a couple of grand strategy games by Paradox Interactive. These are historical strategy games where you start at a historical date and then play through history in ticks of one day at a time. Our leaderboards have separate subcategories for RTA (which measures time in hours, minutes and seconds as normal) but also for IGT, which is based on how quickly you complete various challenges measured by the in-game date.
In practice, IGT times are recorded as the number of in-game days, months and years the run takes, but it's not possible to actually display that on the leaderboard. As a workaround we're using a system where Hours = Years, Minutes = Months, and Seconds = Days, which works well enough but doesn't look very good and can frequently be confusing, especially for new runners.
I suppose that all I'm really asking for is a cosmetic change, namely the ability to change the actual text displayed on the leaderboards, without really requiring any change in functionality. I understand that this might not seem like a huge priority, but I thought I'd still ask about it in case it would be relatively easy to implement, and it definitely is something that would be greatly appreciated by the communities for several pages here :)
Hey everyone! I already made an announcement about this on the discord, but I guess it might be worth doing it here as well. The leaderboards were recently reworked in a couple of ways:
The categories have been rearranged a bit and a few new ones have been added, but most notably there now exists subcategories for IGT (in game time) as well as RTA NS5 (no speed 5), alongside the old RTA category (now called RTA Unrestricted).
RTA NS5 has been made the new default category since it's probably more fair to people with less powerful computers, given that speed 5 is essentially uncapped and solely dependent on how fast your computer is, while speed 4 at least has an in game cap.
Furthermore, the rules have been rewritten to be more explicit and standardized. This goes both for the game as a whole (found under "Game Rules") and for each individual category. Notably the timing for the RTA categories have been changed, so instead of starting the timer right when you press the "play" button, you now start the timer after taking your first in game action (but you're allowed to adjust the game speed before starting the timer as well). All the old runs (except those in the Any% category) have been retimed in accordance with these new rules.
If you wanna do new runs you're encouraged to read through the new rules in full. That's all, I hope you all have a good day! :)
All the other paradox game leaderboards have their own discord server, which I find is a pretty nice way to build a more active community, since it allows communication without having to resort to making forum posts and stuff, so it might feel bit more "casual". Something to consider I guess :)
