So, was considering running this game, but I have to ask. Is there a reason why moderators are submitting and self-approving runs that don't meet the requirements for said run? Was looking at doing Greenview%, but the current #1 run is a self-approved run that doesn't actually go through to the end of what the rules say the run should include.
Not throwing any shade, but I am curious about the clear discrepancy there, and am looking to have it cleared up before spending time doing this game for a speedrun.
As to why self-approved. GGCookies is not active so I'm the only mod at the moment, so if I don't approve my runs at the moment the only person on the leaderboards would be Oceans.
To address Greenview% I looked back at the video and the rules. The time ends when you pick up the box after 104's car and just noticed that the highlight I made cut out early. I will go back and change where it cut off (honest mistake) and put a new link. Thank you for saying something as I may not have noticed that for a while since I don't run Greenview% all that often (usually I use it as a warm up for story%).
To address what I'm guessing is the reason it cut off early for those videos is I put too much trust in splits.io's "auto-highlight" feature, which obviously is not as accurate as I thought it was. Again, thank you for drawing that to my attention.
I have now gone back and re-highlighted the runs with appropriate end times, once the highlights finish they should be view-able. If you find any other discrepancies please feel free to bring them up (publicly or privately, whichever you feel more comfortable with) so they can be addressed.
No worries, thanks for replying so quickly! Figured it was something with the highlight clip, just can never be to careful, sometimes some pretty shady stuff goes on in some of the speedrunning communities. Awesome to see you quickly addressing it so openly and honestly! Looking forward to starting to run this in the future after I practice some more and study a bit more of the current routing (and clear my current log of games to set an initial PB in)!
Also, hope ggcookies is active again to help you out soon. Never a fun time, trying to moderate a speedrun community alone!
I think GG is pretty busy with his stream that is starting to pick up some traction with him playing Apex. I'm not sure if he has any further intent to run the game but he did voice that when 300 was released that might attract him back. I'm not 100% sure but as it stands I don't mind being the only mod as there aren't currently many runners. I would also encourage you to join the thief sim discord as a lot of random speedrun and game related discussion happens there. If the community goes beyond just 3 or 4 people I will probably ask another runner to join me in being a moderator just as a safety measure and in case I'm unable to get on to verify runs for some reasons. Welcome to the community I look forward to seeing your first submission and seeing if you find anything new and exciting that we can exploit! =P
