Hi, We've (finally) added this category and will take feedback on the rules as and when they need changing if there's issues

We have no plans at this time to make further splits to the Individual Tall Tales category that contains Maiden Voyage. If we did so you'd also likely need to debate as to if the harpoon tug counts as an exploit or not, if loot sprinting etc counted. Since Rare have committed to fixing the movement exploits it won't make sense to start allowing them or having them in runs only to need to remove them later, or remove a whole category.

I'll also add that it is nothing but a good thing that we're reaching a limit on the speed at which runs can be done - even if the category is barely ran.

That increased range is unreal hahaha

Note, traps cannot be set before the run starts (we've updated the rules to reflect this as traps would be considered setup.) since this run does not gain an advantage from the traps that were set up before the run it is allowed.

The initial reasoning for post and pre-season 11 was the level rebalance. This changed runs by the order of multiple hours, vs a few minutes in places. We're discussing the best adjustments to rules to accomodate the season 13 changes but, as seen in heart of fire it will likely be allowed and where necessary rules will be amended, eg sea dogs parkour (sword) and no sword

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ya no worries man, I gotchu

I'll look at adding this category tonight

Aighto, we've discussed this and agree. There doesn't need to be a glitch/glitchless category. The tl;dr for why is that we don't mind minor tricks or glitches that can be compensated for/don't outright break the game.

In our rules we state that any of the peter pan bugs or flight are not allowed. That's where we are drawing the line on this one. Cheers.

we'll discuss if there's more interest

Hey, we've discussed these in the past and ultimately decided each time that there was not a great amount of interest, or that there was too much "level variation" in the runs - that said we haven't revisited this discussion since season 11 with dive to 'X' voyage.

We will discuss it and see what happens!

Put in whatever ship you use, for the raid voyages we don't enforce a pov requirement if you choose S/B/G or solo.

We always ask people to discuss anything they think "could be OP" with the mods, with other runners or use their common sense.

Ladder launch and similar aren't bannable but would be considered glitch category as its quite obviously an unintended momentum bug.

Things like OOB are also glitch, the boundary respawning you at the top of the island is permitted as the devs seemingly intend that to be the respawn point.

Thanks.

no difference for the sake of speedruns, use safer seas or high seas at your leisure

Gooofy ahhh quality <3 Hopefully wireless submits soon!

Fixed 09/10/23

Much like HSFT runs... this sounds awful as for the 100 streak I'm good, been there have crewed with people doing that. It's just simply not fun, becomes more a challenge of avoiding cheaters than anything else.

On top of that you'd have to have constant recording at all times from the moment you start a s/g to 100/1000 run. Literally no breaks... that was 3 weeks of playing for the first people lol.

These videos would be 20-50 hours long for time spent and money earned. Unless you put a cap on it.. at which point you're looking at runs that don't make sense in a speedrunning community.