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I'll probably archive old runs into a" pre-physical shop" category, feel free to run the game though!

The new in-game store model significantly affects gameplay, as players spend more time buying coal. For example, if there is only 1 coal in the store, the player has to manually sell 1 coal several times until they reach the correct amount for speedruns, causing them to have an absurd time disadvantage.

I think now that they rolled back the change to have stores with limited stock in normal mode, the time difference between physically buying things and holding E like we previously had to isn't enough to warrant resetting the leaderboards, but I'll try to prove it by beating the record in this update. If there are any nightmare mode runs though, yeah those are void.

And while stores with more coal will be faster as you won't have to keep buying the same piece, I think of it as a very fortunate side effect of general stores having much more loot, many runs died because the first store had no coal at all previously, now you'll lose a couple seconds getting a sub optimal store with 2 coal instead of 4, no big deal. How much time are you really losing clicking the register between every grab? Not much I bet.

*edit: After putting it side by side the new store is quite a bit slower no matter how you put it, not a huge deal for full game runs, but makes more optimized categories like 10Km basically impossible to get the record in.