I think this would have been fine except some records were approved that had rule violations in it so its more of a matter of the approvers going by the listed rules.
As for the discussion going on now, the stricter the rules get, the less creativity teams are allowed to employ which is going to lead to people not bothering.
I do agree with this. To be honest I couldn’t understand why there was even a need to vote on the Molten Facility Ride The Lightning thing as it was being used to get to an yet unacessible area and therefore is classified as “Out of bounds” or/and even “blockade bypassing”.
Two of the most fundamental rules of the “original” restricted ruleset.
The rules need to be what they are and people should just play accordingly rather than attempt to customize them everytime they find a new thing to show and that would require the rules being bent. I can understand the voters’ perspective as it’s a heavily timegated instance and anything to make it quicker probably feels like a good thing but it still doesn’t justify allowing it when it’s clearly disallowed by fundamental rules that have, for as long as I can remember, been a part of the restricted ruleset.
This is exactly what ive been saying all along. People dont know what they want. They bend the rules when they come up with something new that they think is cool. But if its something old its “no, ban it”. Its a complete joke and i honestly cant take people seriously anymore.
The whole reason some of these old questionable tactics were banned in the first place was because restricted was supposed to be to play the dungeons as close to the way they were intended as possible. That idea for restricted stopped being the case a long time ago and now its just play whats fun (because noone gives a kitten what anet intended anymore). So theres not really any point in having restricted anymore. It should just be how it was before with the big issues covered.
A universal ruleset that bans the big 3 issues would give plenty of freedom and creativity but would also be quite restrictive towards major exploits. So; no gem store items, no consumables and no breaking out of the map or moving through geometry. If anything seriously major surfaces, like skipping half the dungeon without getting out of the map, then we can revisit.
If people are still insistant on the constant customised ruleset (no idea why they would be). Can we at least have unrestricted follow this ruleset? Or get a 3rd ruleset for it. Id actually just like to see an open poll for those 3 rulesets. Or a survey of what people dislike/like about each ruleset and why they will/wont compete with it.
I think people would be surprised at how popular a middle ground ruleset would be. I personally know a lot of people (and im not talking about rT members) who are silent on the issue but agree restricted goes a bit too far. And unrestricted is too open so it has very little competition and people worry about their rep by posting heavily exploited runs.
