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I didn't really want to make this thread, but I know someone would do it anyway if I didn't. We have new rules, FAQ, and submission pages.
Some changes, new changes thanks to this thread in bold (please read up on the details though):
- Some types of games that used to be banned, aren't now. Fighting games, adventure games, etc. Also "major publisher" has been relaxed to 3rd party retailer, although it was already sorta like this.
- Clarification on some categories like multiplayer, low%, 100%, etc.
- Elimination of save warping as an extra category.
- Death abuse category becomes just "with deaths."
- More glitches allowed like out of bounds (OOB), "mysterious" warping, clipping, etc.
- Out of the box runs no longer required first.
- External scripting now banned.
- Probably more I forget.
Because we are already making changes now, might as well take care of all of them. We have considered all of these, and discussed with a fair number of people for some of the decisions, but there are a couple things that could possibly change if *everyone* is against them (please note the likelihood of these changing is very low, maybe 1%). Here are examples:
-real name being required (seems like a good rule, fake name is a known workaround)
-no freeware games (no good solution I think)
-1/2 sec quicksave penalty (prevents tas-ness... we allow external scripts which is also tas-ness but too late to do anything about that)
We want to "finalize" things soon before asking people to translate, so discuss the rules and make suggestions here. I've spent forever with the wording and such for these pages, so please only suggest something if it is a concrete error, not merely if you think something could be worded in another way.
The biggest reason for making this thread is actually to see if we left anything blatantly obvious out of the FAQs. I don't want to have a ton of FAQs that overwhelm people, so any suggestion has to be amazing and obvious to get included. But please think back to when you were a newb and what questions you had then.
Honestly I'm already regretting giving out the impression that these changes are more malleable than they are, because they are pretty finalized already in my mind.
Some changes, new changes thanks to this thread in bold (please read up on the details though):
- Some types of games that used to be banned, aren't now. Fighting games, adventure games, etc. Also "major publisher" has been relaxed to 3rd party retailer, although it was already sorta like this.
- Clarification on some categories like multiplayer, low%, 100%, etc.
- Elimination of save warping as an extra category.
- Death abuse category becomes just "with deaths."
- More glitches allowed like out of bounds (OOB), "mysterious" warping, clipping, etc.
- Out of the box runs no longer required first.
- External scripting now banned.
- Probably more I forget.
Because we are already making changes now, might as well take care of all of them. We have considered all of these, and discussed with a fair number of people for some of the decisions, but there are a couple things that could possibly change if *everyone* is against them (please note the likelihood of these changing is very low, maybe 1%). Here are examples:
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We want to "finalize" things soon before asking people to translate, so discuss the rules and make suggestions here. I've spent forever with the wording and such for these pages, so please only suggest something if it is a concrete error, not merely if you think something could be worded in another way.
The biggest reason for making this thread is actually to see if we left anything blatantly obvious out of the FAQs. I don't want to have a ton of FAQs that overwhelm people, so any suggestion has to be amazing and obvious to get included. But please think back to when you were a newb and what questions you had then.
Honestly I'm already regretting giving out the impression that these changes are more malleable than they are, because they are pretty finalized already in my mind.
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