I'm not a big fan of RTA, since it's going to be dependent on your computer specs, but definitely the easiest. Calendar date also sorta works, but then menuing is free.

Also steam release is probably going to have a leaderboard reset but oh well.

On other speedrunning categories, I did do a strawberries-in-hell% where you had to grow above-ground crops in hell (ended up using prickle berries since strawberries never came), but that was a couple versions back and they fixed the exploit.

I'm a bit confused by the reliability of the run; if you can get your civilization destroyed, and one of your dwarves is appointed Monarch, I think that's an instant mountainhome. In older versions the monarch would come as soon as you discovered adamantine, but not in the more recent versiosn.

I'm also not convinced that being a metropolis is a requirement for becoming mountainhome.

Other than that, I'm a little confused by the "no changes in init/d_init". I guess changes in the invader cap and temperature can change gameplay, but things like water levels, engravings obscured and pathing costs shouldn't impact the run.

So the 2018.10.15.1 patch reduced the absurd liberation that was coming from glory missions (basically halved the amount).

I feel that we should reset the leaderboards to take that into consideration (or at least the post-space birthday runs), as the patch removed the "bug".