Indonesiaif u wanna propose something as big as this at least make structured but anyways im sorry if i missed anything u said.
Okay so your idea to incentivize becoming a moderator is this right
there are ways to incentivize becoming a moderator without having to pay, moderator rewards, contests for mods or a mods leaderboard, etc.
Lets expand on that idea. What rewards would u be offering for moderators if not money? what kind of contests would be good for moderators ? do u really think most people would be interested in that ?
you could have MOD ONLY leaderboards, you could stop being a MOD if you want to run on public boards. You guys have high dollar contests too, now why couldn't you have those JUST FOR MODs as well?
99.9% of games dont have contests with big or any prizes. It's even VERY rare for popular games. Even if there are, the people who gives the money would want as many people as possible to compete. Prized contests for mods only is a 100% bad idea and would break the community, not that anyone would be dumb enough to do it (or maybe someone have too much money lol)
It's normal to have people who judge compete on the same leaderboards. You can find examples of this in chess and speedcubing, go out and find irl tournaments and u will find that competitors be judges all the time! Maybe not in the highest level tournaments but thats not comparable to any speedgame. There are a lot of arguments to made to counter your idea because it's simply a terrible idea. But i dont want to waste anymore time.
I think your main concern is about unfair advantages that mods (supposedly) have, we can classify it into 2 advantages :
- Not In-game
Mods can really influence what rules gets enforced and other things outside of the game that give adventages to themselves. This is a valid point since they do have the power to do that. For games that have a community (more than just a few people) this is a non issue since the majority will decide that instead of the mods most of the time. If there are unfair advantages, the mods are corrupt, etc. then the community will do something about it no doubt (it can get super complicated if its like 50/50 split and stuff but thats rare). However i can see it being a problem with very small communities. I'm not experienced enough to say i know whats going in those games with 1-5 people running but im pretty sure u can do something about it that doesnt involve making big changes.
- In-game
Moderators also keep a large amount of things they learn secret, which is understandable, this way they have an edge when trying to find out whether a player is cheating or not.
This is what you said but i dont think this is not common at all. I'm guessing this is just your imagination and it makes sense for u so u said it. Please give actual examples or this point is simply irrelevant.
It might be true that there are things about a game that moderators do not disclose to catch cheaters. But those things are not an advantage for them in anyway except if the moderators also wants to cheat. But how common is it really? also if the mods have their own leaderboards whats stopping them to do that in their leaderboard ? most people will just not recognise mods leaderboards as a legitimate thing and the mods would have no incentive to compete in that leaderboard because what makes competing in a leaderboard worth it is that people acknowledge that the leaderboard is legit. In that case, its no different than having no leaderboards.
In any case, banning moderators to be able to compete in the same leaderboards as everyone else doesnt solve anything, it would create infinitely more problems, and it would be a non trivial task to implement. It will never happen so please calm down and think about it again. If there are specific problems that youre experiencing then tell people about it, it rarely needs a sitewide solution.
I won't be replying to your response unless u make like a whole ass thesis because this is simply a dumb idea that's not worth discussing, have a nice day.
nice job, gg ! its definitely not pathetic. u finished a run, that alone is an impressive achievement :)
if u want, u can record using a camera pointed at the screen. Just make sure the in game timer and version number is clear and readable ! (and of course follow the rules listed in the game rules)
okay got it, thanks for the help!
so my laptop kinda bad and i followed the guide and was able to record demos. i checked the demos folder in source unpacks folder, and it's there, the folder named date-time and inside are .dem files pretty sure those are demo files right ?
so can i just submit a run with this demo files or do i have to playback and record a video ?
usually this is a cpu problem. pj64 isnt that demanding so maybe check if youre not in performance mode if youre using a laptop (also some laptop performs better while charging) or clean up random processes from the taskbar. using a lower resolution of p64 helps too, if u dont care about quality u can even run p64 in 320x320 and use this to enlarge the window but keep it at that resolution http://www.airesoft.co.uk/windowwatcher
imo keyboard > bad controller , especially those without notches. Keyboard has a fundamental disadvantage of digital input, so u cant walk and move other than the 8 directions. however, those limitation made the some trick easier to learn since u wont hold weird angles. ive only seen 2 runner on keyboard tho, one is top 20 16 star and sigotu which u can find easily on every leaderboards.
