United StatesAll VODs downloaded (it took a while), will examine today.
Want the specifics?
Min(Max((1-(((100-(Now-Max([Most Recent Run Date])))/30))^2)/(1-((100/30))^2),0),1) for each player, then totaled up for the game. (1 = 1 day)
If that makes no sense: When a player submits a new PB, that player's 'activity' is valued at 1.0. Over the course of 100 days, that number gradually drops, faster in the beginning and slower later on. After 100, the player is considered to no longer to be 'actively' running the game. Of course, there's no objective measure to this, we honestly don't know if they're still playing, but 100 days helps to compensate for that.
That all is then added and rounded up into the active player number you see. You can see the number to 4 digits by hovering over it in gamestats.
Too many things have to be in place for this to work or it's ripe for abuse.
[quote]Or someone would comment "first", random memes or insults on every run.[/quote]
This too. Even if we made rules against it and shoved it in people's face each time, there would ALWAYE be new users who will just ignore it.
If there was a problem, either I or a game mod would have said something by now. This sort of behavior was expected given how high profile the game is.
But yes, this thread is redundant and will be locked.
https://www.speedrun.com/games
The point that's being missed here is that there's too much focus on leaderboards and not enough focus on community. It kills me when I'm too busy with other things to support someone streaming a niche game I'm really interested in seeing runs, especially when I've ran them myself. Talking to other runners about strategies is what really makes speedrunning a community, not a list of people who did better than the other. That's not to say it doesn't have it's value, but people have forgotten what speedrunning isn't all about that.
Before Twitch (or even Justin.tv) existed, there weren't no stickin' website to keep track of all the records. There weren't people who speedran games for the glory, to get popular, to get world record; No, you had people who speedran games purely for the fun of it. This is something that's been forgotten and we're off worse as a result. Sure, if you claim to be 1st or otherwise have a really good time, evidence is certainly necessary when the other runners have it too. But by requiring people to have a video just to say they ran the game, you start shutting people out of the hobby. You can say it's easy these days to make a recording but not everyone has that luxury. If someone wants to put a last place run up with a bad time, even if it's without a video, and they say it's an actual speedrun attempt (and not a troll), just let them do it. No one is hurt in the process; don't play gatekeeper on that sort of stuff.
The good stuff will come once there's been some routing to help optimize the game. Runs without routing may as well be considered blind.
I'll get to approving the runs around Tuesday as that'll be when I finally have some real spare time. Sorry for the wait.
