I want to advise a category like Multiplayer, because boshy has the ability to play online, and there are general saves, what do you think about this?
My main concerns with co-op are:
• Security — Boshy is a very dated game with potential exploits to deliver malicious payloads to connected clients or vice versa. If such a category is created, the rules should warn to only play with players you personally trust.
• Verification — Someone mentioned telling co-op players apart is not an easy task. Normally, moderators are expected to watch complete runs to ensure legitimacy. If like was suggested, two recordings will be required for each submission, this will introduce a significant burden on verifiers should full scrutiny be the standard.
• Accurate skill representation — Due to the unique nature of Boshy co-op, it potentially opens up a certain rabbit hole for abuse, which is carrying players completely new to the game by a skilled player. For example, if I decided to ask 20 random people, 1 co-op partner for each run, I'd have 20 different run submissions! The rules would have to account for that somehow, but I have a wary feeling it wouldn't be easy to craft a rule that ensures fairness (e.g., restricting one player from submitting a PB because their co-op partner changed).
• Awkwardness of the glitches — The nature of competitive categories is that every strat matters, so all the pause buffering tricks will remain in the run. This will introduce the dilemma whether to force two sets of muscle memory for pause buffering with Space compared to the regular categories, allow scripts, disallow pause buffering in co-op, or some other option I can't think of right now, if it exists.
• Further difficulty separation and category clutter — Ez, TA, Hard-on, Rage, 100%, glitchless, mirror mode, WW, so on and so forth.
In any which case, it seems like crafting the rules for any% (TA, No WW, DBO, Co-op) will be a headache.
i think this game only lives due to a couple of runners in the form of hachimen, ansowizard and itzfallenfly (the main runners, BBF is inactive) and adding some initially dead categories is pointless. I would leave everything as is at the moment, simply because new categories will not get the attention they deserve and will have even less runners than rage mode. The game does not need new categories IMO
