I would go so far as to say that RTA runs are rather pointless in a competitive setting as long as speed 5 is allowed. Slower computers might still have a disadvantage in longer runs since the amount of lag tends to increase the longer into a game you play, but at least it won't be quite as extreme as with speed 5. With speed 4 you at least have a hard cap for how much computer power is going to benefit you. Since speed 5 is as fast as your computer can run, it will always give a ridiculously unfair advantage to those with more powerful computers, to the extent that I suspect that computer power will be the single most deciding factor in runs once they get more optimized.

However I must concur with fruitjuiceman that any RTA run should be limited to speed 4, and in fact I don't see any way that RTA runs can be in any way fair as long as speed 5 is allowed.

Hello! I just found this page and considered attempting a speedrun of my own. Jonttux jonttux, generalissima_ generalissima_ and Toad500 Toad500 like this. (I dont know how difficult it is to add categories as a mod but id be happy to do so if i were a mod) People are overwhelmingly playing the historical flavor mod, and there could be special categories for this mod as well. Non nation formations could include reach 10,000 industry or 5000 prestige.Īlso, If you follow the victoria 2 community at all, vanilla is not exactly hot. Other cool runs for vanilla could be form poland-lithuania from kracow or form india. This would be a superb addition, any person whose played the game for a bit can unify germany but it would be really cool to see people do it really efficiently. One idea that presented in the last thread was the unify germany category.

Honestly I love Victoria 2 for its sandboxy quality there is a high skill cap, there are so many cool things to do and no real set way to win. It means that players just play a country at war and annex themselves or, as the meta has shifted recently, just quit the game. The westernize category is essentially a waiting game, and the 'reach the end screen' category doesnt even mean you 'beat' the game. There was a post about this a few months ago but I think the issue needs to be raised again: the criteria for speed running this game are neither interesting nor indicative of a players skill.

Victoria 2 historical flavor mod