Hi,
Do you plan to create some kind of online form for the runners to submit their times? It would be useful.
At the moment, editors pick up most of the times naturally and those that are missed can be PMed to me or other editors. However, now that the forums are out, I guess we could just have a topic (either this one or a new one) where anyone can post missing times?
OK! I've tweeted mine to @FFSpeedruns but I don't know if someone saw it. I got 4h 53m 24s in FFVI any% (single-segment, no seed, no wrong warp). It's the exact same category as Enkimy's.
It appears I can't post full links on the forum so I've put spaces inside it : http ://www .twitch. tv/oxydoreduction/c/5011827
Thanks!
Thank you very much SrWatcher. I know I'm being punctilious here, but I feel that it's important to precise on the category title that it's single-segment and no seed. That's why:
- RTA would be very, very different than single-segment, due to a particular sketch glitch for which the runner would need to save and reload (I don't use it)
- a seed run would be also very different, because of the neutralization of the majority of RNG in the run.
If you don't want to overstrech the category titles I'd get it, but at least I think it would be good to add, like CVagts suggested, a "Notes" column.
I'm going to leave the "no seed" out, because it's impossible to not use a seed - it'd be like "FF7 no step count". As for single segment, what do you skip by doing so?
Regardless of what ends up happening, you can feel free to add those to the notes section whenever that happens. I do like the idea of it, so it'll happen eventually.
For the difference between RTA and SS:
- In RTA, we could use sketch glitch to put Moogle Charms in slot 255 of the item list, and use the "equip anything glitch" to put them on anyone at any time, and more precisely as soon as the beginning of WoR, with Celes alone, allowing to skip many battles. But this sketch glitch requires a reset; without reset, the game isn't playable.
- In SS, we can't use this sketch glitch, so we learn different spells to use other sketch glitches, and in the WoR we can't have Moogle Charms before retrieving Gogo (who can sketch). So, the SS is significantly longer than the RTA.
=> Two very different routes in term of planning, spell learning, menuing and so on. (Maybe I will do RTA runs when I'm happy with my SS time)
For the "no seed" thing, I get your point, I'll just add it in the "notes" column when it will be available, as I do like this idea too.
Actually, I decided to just ditch the form idea because submissions are so rare that we never think to check it. There's a link to #finalfantasy on the main page - a place that we actually do look at - I figure that's the most practical way to inform us of absent times in a way we'll actually notice. :P