------ EDIT -------- Felt my previous post was sort of passive aggressive. I have currently been exclusively been running handgun only, a knifeless category would also be fine. Can we please get an update from a mod on your stance towards adding this? We've already added 2 category extensions with significantly less interest in running than Knifeless or HG Only.
Rules I have been using for Knifeless - Discard knife once door control sliced
Rules I have been using for HG only - Same as above rule No defense items (IE Handgun only) Leon - Rocket Launcher ONLY usable for Tyrant, door mob must either be shot through or tanked.
There's that pinned thread in Category Extensions on suggestions and it hasn't received much feedback, so I'm open to making one here instead. Honestly, with the workload bearlol, these sort of things haven't been the highest priority unless we have a large amount of people asking for it.
I get that you guys do this by Volunteer, I did modding for Rev 2 for a little while, but the reality is that the majority of people aren't vocal about things like this. Multiple people on many different threads have requested either a knifeless or a handgun category at the minimum.
The Category Extension forum hasn't seen mod activity in 2 days, and most people don't even know that division even exists.
I'm happy to make a thread over here, but please keep in mind we've been pretty busy with
- The 120 split (here and on the CE boards)
- 50-100+ submissions a day (consistently at that, and I know Rev 2 hasn't come close to hitting that)
Sorry gauging feedback on this/deciding rules hasn't been top priority - I know you're eager for this, and I would love to run a category like this too. As you said, most people don't even know CE is a thing (or just don't care for anything besides mains) :)
As for the mod activity, there's not really anything for us to do on that forum if there's no activity from other community members either. It's not really our job to keep things alive in terms of discussions over in a place most people don't know/care about. Our job is to prioritize serving the community, and right now most of that is in the very very active queue. Not worrying about a CE category we're not getting much demand for -- compared to knife only etc It really boils down to prioritizing our time, and right now most of that is keeping up with runs.
This thread alone has 10 different people with some statement saying they would like to see Knifeless, there has been 2-3 other people mentioning the same thing on the other forum. Handgun only was also mentioned here, and that is the category I have sort of stuck too, and have been running and optimizing for 3-4 days now.
No offense, but that alone is about 3x the amount of people who were interested in knife only. It's not a shock most of these people have been quiet, it's been over a week since we heard anything from a mod, and the answer was less than satisfactory.
I get there is a lot of interest in running this game right now, that's a good thing, it doesn't make sense that we would shoo people that are interested in running something off to the side. Verifying a run takes an hour(If done properly... everyone knows most runs aren't even watched through and through), adding a category that might keep some people in the community interested takes 10 minutes (More realistically 4, but I'm being generous)
Thanks for hearing me through, please make the thread and the community can decide what gets put in there.
We're not "shooing people that are interested in running something off to the side". I'm not really sure how else to state this to you that we're simply prioritizing time. You're mostly coming across as "I wanted this a week ago and so it should already be here". You claim you're understanding, but then the point just seems to go over your head based on the rest of what you've said in this thread.
I don't care how long it takes to setup a board. I want to give the community time to suggest ideas/strats/rules. There's enough to manage on our plate in our free time right now, and I'm sorry someone just simply hasn't gotten to it. I'll go ahead and make the thread now.
FYI, we watch all runs that are top 10 (this is an internal mod rule), many of us watch top 20 times. All the way through. 50-100 submissions a day. Many of those fit the criteria. I get you modded REV 2, but let's not compare apples and oranges. Thanks dude!
I never compared modding Rev 2 to modding this. Rev 2 had 10 runners, one of which was myself.
The whole point of mentioning that I modded was to point out that I understand that this is thankless volunteer work. Lets stop getting offended by everything someone says(myself included), and work together instead of making each-other pull our hair out.
Like I said, make the stickied thread and we will go from there. Thanks
