Linguica Posted October 25, 2018 To commemorate the newly enacted Rule against Perpetuities I have decided to put my money where my mouth is and hold a short demo contest to help enrich some lucky Doomworld member. To win this contest, reply to this thread with a zipped demo attachment of the following: Quote RECORD A VANILLA (-COMPLEVEL 2) DEMO OF DOOM 2 MAP18 ON ULTRA-VIOLENCE FROM PISTOL START, WHERE YOU EXIT THE LEVEL WITH A COMBINED TOTAL OF KILL %, ITEM %, AND SECRET % ADDING UP TO AT LEAST 100. NO TAS, PLEASE. This could take the form of 100/0/0, or 34/33/33, or 0/50/50. The only requirement is that the three percentage numbers on the intermission screen add up to at least 100. The deadline for this contest is 11:59 PM UTC, October 30, 2018. At that time I will determine the fastest exit time that fulfills the requirements of the contest, and contact them for the necessary information to send them $100 via Paypal or equivalent. Times are to the second (not the tic) and any tiebreaker will be by earliest posting time. Also although I am not going to ban myself if I violate my own rule and miss my own deadline, everyone will know that I am willing to throw away 20+ years of goodwill accumulated from my unblemished record of not defrauding Doomworld forum members out of money I owe them. 27 Share this post Link to post
Grain of Salt Posted October 25, 2018 map18demo.zip -- 32/63/50 in 1:48. Just a quick attempt for fun. This is a neat challenge because you can be creative in how you approach it. Everyone is gonna beat my time, but it was nice to have a go anyway :3 7 Share this post Link to post
Ancalagon Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) This sounds fun so I did one, please someone beat this. 8/67/25 d218100-046-anc.zip Edited October 25, 2018 by Ancalagon 6 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Linguica said: Also although I am not going to ban myself if I violate my own rule and miss my own deadline, everyone will know that I am willing to throw away 20+ years of goodwill accumulated from my unblemished record of not defrauding Doomworld forum members out of money I owe them. To engender public trust, I propose that the money is placed in an escrow account in all such cases. 1 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted October 25, 2018 I would if there was such a system in place, but alas. 0 Share this post Link to post
jerk-o Posted October 25, 2018 Even if you don't get the money, it could still be fun trying for a certain number combo. 1 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted October 25, 2018 Oh god, Ling just can't tolerate the cash thing and make an "official" challenge. The rules are way more interesting than getting 100% item for a stupid map with a time limit. Will definitely try to do one when I have time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Moustachio Posted October 25, 2018 @Linguica Is it limited to one submission per demo author? 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted October 25, 2018 No. I wish there was a way to encourage more demos in general given that Ancalagon just dropped a huge gauntlet immediately. 0 Share this post Link to post
Moustachio Posted October 25, 2018 Speaking of which: 14/63/25 (0:45) tmm-lingmap18-14.zip 3 Share this post Link to post
GarrettChan Posted October 25, 2018 Tried a 50% secret route, but it doesn't really work out because you need to run back and forth, but hey, it's fun to try. 16/40/50 0:46 ling046.zip 4 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted October 25, 2018 For some reason, seeing Moustachio get his score beaten by just 2 seconds cut me deep 5 Share this post Link to post
THEBaratusII Posted October 25, 2018 Well, I tried my best. (can try beating score but can't beat the time) 96/82/50 9:29 bii-lingmap18-929.zip 4 Share this post Link to post
Bauul Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, Grain of Salt said: map18demo.zip -- 32/63/50 in 1:48. Just a quick attempt for fun. This is a neat challenge because you can be creative in how you approach it. Everyone is gonna beat my time, but it was nice to have a go anyway :3 9 hours ago, The Mysterious Moustachio said: Speaking of which: 14/63/25 (0:45) tmm-lingmap18-14.zip 9 hours ago, GarrettChan said: Tried a 50% secret route, but it doesn't really work out because you need to run back and forth, but hey, it's fun to try. 16/40/50 0:46 ling046.zip 3 hours ago, Baratus 95 said: Well, I tried my best. (can try beating score but can't beat the time) 96/82/50 9:29 bii-lingmap18-929.zip Am I right in thinking all of these attempts are invalid because the final %s don't add up to 100? Or did I misunderstand the rules? Edit: I'm an idiot, the rules said at least 100, not exactly 100. Never mind! Edited October 25, 2018 by Bauul 3 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted October 25, 2018 9 hours ago, Dime said: D2M18-043-Dime.zip Jeez, this is lucky as hell, look at these faraway monsters dying in infightings at the last seconds. 0 Share this post Link to post
Moustachio Posted October 25, 2018 9 hours ago, Doomkid said: For some reason, seeing Moustachio get his score beaten by just 2 seconds cut me deep To be fair, I beat Anc's score by a mere 1 second. Call it a competitive karma. 2 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted October 25, 2018 0:42 (15-60-25) I don't understand how Dime got a valid exit with his casino strategy (did he just pray really hard for good infightings to happen?). Had to try something different... 18memfis-42.zip 5 Share this post Link to post
baja blast rd. Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) Memfis and throwing shade. Not an unexpected combo. Edited October 25, 2018 by rdwpa 2 Share this post Link to post
Dime Posted October 25, 2018 Bunch of attempts ended with 95-99%. For an ok time I think it is fine to rely on an outlier attempt in this challenge. 1 Share this post Link to post
kb1 Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) Intrigued, I must say... What did I miss? By the way, for challenges like this, are tool-assist submissions allowed, expected, discouraged - disclosed or not? I only ask because it would seem like originality might help bring submissions to the top (TAS itself is no longer 'original', but an interesting category of their own). Edited October 25, 2018 by kb1 Added questions 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted October 25, 2018 Hm, I apologize if my comment sounded bad, I was actually trying to express amazement. When I tried Dime's route, I usually needed like 50 seconds to get 100%, so I think it's crazy that he got such a good time with it. 2 Share this post Link to post
Dime Posted October 25, 2018 The cool part about your demo Memfis, I was theorycrafting what might be a superior route to mine and thought that up midday hitting up the BFG afterwards letting the pinkies roll out. 0 Share this post Link to post
axdoomer Posted October 26, 2018 21 hours ago, Grazza said: To engender public trust, I propose that the money is placed in an escrow account in all such cases. We can use my Paypal account as an escrow account. 1 Share this post Link to post
Dime Posted October 26, 2018 (edited) D2M18-041-Dime.zip Did a minor changeup with the ssg pickup but I am a door/wall bumper. Edited October 26, 2018 by Dime 6 Share this post Link to post
Marcaek Posted October 26, 2018 Capitalism saves Doom speedrunning??? smh 4 Share this post Link to post
SleepyVelvet Posted October 26, 2018 Heh, I had a bit more fun with this than I'd like to admit. I plateaued at 43 (I stole memfis' path to get the 43). Here's a pile of each "personal best" in one zip, for sake of completeness. noisy_18_43.zip I kinda wish the bluekey bottleneck wasn't there so you could go wild with exploring the other would-be viable options, but pretty cool anyways. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ancalagon Posted October 26, 2018 3 hours ago, Dime said: D2M18-041-Dime.zip Did a minor changeup with the ssg pickup but I am a door/wall bumper. Nice 41.00 here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Looper Posted October 26, 2018 4 hours ago, Dime said: D2M18-041-Dime.zip Did a minor changeup with the ssg pickup but I am a door/wall bumper. I just wanted to equalize your time with a bit different tactic :-) D2M18-041-Looper.zip 4 Share this post Link to post
StevenC21 Posted October 26, 2018 (edited) @Linguica does it have to be exactly 100%? Edit: I should have read the post better, nevermind. Edited October 26, 2018 by StevenC21 0 Share this post Link to post
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