Hello all, tpc here! Still chugging away at All Time Trials for An Actual Good Time(TM), but in the meantime, I want to suggest a leaderboard redesign, because ours is pretty clumsy and cluttered.

First, since we have a proper full-game category now (I doubt we'll get any more, although I considering submitting All Missions to Really Really Long-a-thon), we should move all Shorts and score-based IL time attacks to IL leaderboards. I know that the IL scene is kind of all this game has, but ILs are ILs, and full game is full game, and the leaderboard should reflect that. (I swear it's not a part of my cunning master plan to get everyone to run single segment so that I have people to race)

As an example, SM64 and SMS's organization of their individual star/shine boards is what I'd imagine something like ours to looks like. This would address some problems:

1. It wouldn't matter if levels had an asymmetric number of shorts, because you can define the amount per level
2. We could easily add each level's time attack to each IL and not clutter the front page even more
3. It looks pretty sweet, and accurately separates ILs and full game runs

The only problem with this that I could see is that the View All tab would only show you the number one time for each Short 1, 2 Mil score attack, and Time Trial (if we added it). I don't think there's any way around that (I think the SM64 mods would have found it already if there was), but it's not a big deal.

Here's a proof-of-concept that I spent exactly 11 minutes and 23 seconds on in photoshop, based on SM64's IL leaderboards https://imgur.com/6VfQCIp

I was looking at memory in cheat engine to see if I could find anything interesting. I mainly just found boring addresses, but I figured I would share what I found, just in case.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A5lMIKH8285lxYWtti1fMmnO_hSBi_AB

Hello everybody! So for a while (and by a while I mean not actually a lot of time) I've been thinking about running this game in some sort of single segment scenario. So, I had the bright idea to race through every time trial (+ the DLC ones) in one run to see what's the best time I could get (in combined in-game time).

Running the game like this is super fun, really open to racing, and also is much more difficult than just ILs. It's really cool to see how you can improvise in certain scenarios to see how you can make the best out of a time loss.

I've been running this category for about two months now, and have brought my time (with DLC) from 35:57.81 to a 34:08.55, with sub-34 as my initial goal. I haven't highlighted the video of the 34:08 yet (because it was bad: lost 35 seconds in big eater and 17 in manhatten; a really godlike championship 1 saved the run), but here's a video of my 34:26.44 (which is also really bad):

I was thinking that maybe we could add this as a full game category?

For the 12 Hour Challenge, I did a run where I had 25 children as fast as possible (a variation of the classic family man challenge, have as many kids as possible). As far as I could tell from the rules in the categories already here, it doesn't follow them exactly, but I think the ones I laid out (https://pastebin.com/g1bMNaxB) make sense. Could we add this as a category?