Currently, the rules for the GP ILs are IGT. While there is good in it (it discards loading time and doesn't force button mashing in menu to matter), it also means that racing for a full minute before doing a skip counts exactly the same as managing to skip in a few seconds. Doing the latter without screwing up the GP is harder and more skillful, so it's not good that it is not rewarded.

Do you think the rules should be changed ?

The possibilities are :

• Keeping the final GP IGT
• Doing it full RTA
• Some mixed solution : adding the game timer at the moment the player pauses to skip to the final GP IGT ?

Second : what should be the rules for the last GP ? Should it be 4 races (without fort magma), like it is in the story mode when done early, or 5 races, like it is otherwise defined in normal racing ? On one side, the double-skip in a 4 races GP is harder and it matches more full run experience, on the other, 5 races match the intended game design and one race more to do is one occasion more of gaining some time.

Code an in-game timer mod for GP's and i'll agree. I mostly agree, my only objection is loading times.

Edit: is a ingame timer for GPs even actually possible? maybe that's a silly idea lol.

There is already an in-game timer for GP... It's just that it gives a wrong time when the player skips. If at least it added one hour or so on skip, it would make sense, but adding zero is absurd.

It's possible to just look at the timer on the last frame before skipping, maybe adding some rounding for good measure (so having a 60fps video is not a disadvantage), and compute a pseudo-IGT total using it.

@UbuntuJackson : using the current IGT rule, a skipped race count for 0,000 seconds, no matter when you skip it.

It's ridiculous to have possibly a speed record where you can just take your time and go slowly in the race skips, knowing it won't matter. If you do 1s less in the 3 non-skipped races and 1 minute more in the skipped races, it would be very bad in a normal full-game run, but it could yield you a WR with the current GP ILs rules.

Having non-timed moments with relevant non-trivial player actions is bad.