Lair Larrikin
Posts: 15
Joined: Saturday, 23rd March 2019, 18:59
Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation for ev
I was given mod privilege on https://www.speedrun.com/dungeon_crawl_stone_soup/ and have separated out every species as it's own sub-category within 3 rune and 15 rune realtime runs. A lot of species don't have a run submitted in them at all since there is no video evidence of them so lots of them are free for the taking! Next step is to add new categories to further diversify possible strategies and hopefully spark more interest for speedrunning and theorycrafting(my favourite part) in members of DCSS community!
Some of my current ideas are:
- Seeded speedruns: this category would be a seeded run, 3 runes as well as 15 runes. It would be the same as the current way of running except for two things, being able to use a seed(thus knowing the layout of the dungeon as well as the items that you can plan your strategy around) and allowing offline runs(allowing us to make use of trunk seeds easier).
- Ziggurat speedruns: this category would require the player to complete a ziggurat along with beating the game(with any number of runes). Again, there would be a sub category for every species since the way to achieve the win would differ greatly between them
- MegaZiggurat speedruns: unlike previous categories this one would have no sub categories for separate species. The goal here would be to complete 27 ziggurats (the number isn't set in stone as of right know, I picked it just because it was iconic to the game) before beating the game. These runs would allow you to save during them since I suspect they could take a while!
- Great+Greaterplayer+Polytheist speedruns: the ultimate category.This category would not only measure the players ability to play fast but also to plan out combs, make use of every god, no matter how strong or weak they are. In order to get the total time you would add up all the played time from the start of your first game to the end of the final game along with any dead characters in between.
I would love to hear feedback on these ideas as well as hear any new ones! Thank you all for your support!
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