Hi everyone, I'm making this post because I wanna discuss the current moderation team for Termina speedruns. Multiple speedrun community members recently filed reports to the speedrun site admins with the goal of re-appointing moderators who are (1) actively engaged in Termina speedrunning and its community and (2) capable of effectively and respectfully communicating with active runners to develop guidelines for runs that the whole community agrees upon.

As it stands, there are multiple moderators who don't fit either of these criteria. I don't know who ceswayne is but he was recently bumped up to supermoderator despite his account being completely inactive for 10 months. There is also holypredazor whose account is only 10 days old and has no apparent history of speedrunning this game at all.

This matter concerning the moderation team and its underlying problems continues unresolved. In particular, adarkraccoon's limited communication to private platforms that he exclusively regulates rather than maintain open and respectful communication on this forum as is pretty typical across other speedrunning communities. Ruupa, unlike adarkraccoon, has taken great care on this forum to communicate thoughtfully with current speedrunners like g0dh34d and I to share the information we need to continue speedrunning and develop future run guidelines that we can all agree on. With these reasons in mind, I believe ruupa and g0dh34d should be the only two Termina moderators, both sharing supermoderator status, and they should be in charge of the speedrun rules/community and any future changes. I think this would make sense and be best for the health of our speedrunning community moving forward.

Opening this here so we can just get down to business and tall about our opinions on the new rules. Should be more than enough to have every runner heard here

Are the new glitchless% and any% routes currently in effect? These category changes are frustrating because we were told that the rules wouldn't change until after the new update drops. We weren't asked for our input for these changes and we are still waiting for to know what (if any) glitches are allowed in glitchless%. The load remover is also borderline necessary to keep the speedrunning playing field as fair as possible. It wouldnt feel good if someone with the most up to date pc crushed any of our times and made it impossible to WR. I really just feel like I shouldn't run because of this. Also it's very frustrating that we are receiving no direct responses or even having what little input we've suggested heard. Please tell us what the state of speedrunning is here and ask us for our input here or in another thread before making huge changes.

I think the general consensus is that lrt is very beneficial for runners who lose time to load times. In the end b category I lose 26 seconds to load times while g0dh34d loses about 31 seconds. These 5 seconds can be very huge if we are going to wr and it only makes sense to at the very least have the option available for us. I hope you please bring back the lrt back to the runs.

It makes the game fair for those who dont have good pcs. even if its just optional it would level the playing field

I think adding the entire playable roster would make sense for ending B/ Maso B since everyone gets a unique endscreen but it wouldn't make too much sense for ending A and C since everyone can get those ending and it's basically the same. So basically just making end b the only one to split individually by character in order to not add 50+ new categories. Just my input regarding the future of the categories and was wondering what everyone else thinks. I'm a little too socially mentally exhausted atm from work to join discord

I know the game may or may not be updated soon but I'd still love to have a category to save everyone. I feel like it's definitely one osaa can really shine in.

I was thinking of incorporating the hexen table teleport to the train and the infinite loot from the specific neighbor into a run. Would that be allowed? also is the infinite head cherub bug still in the game?