I think Tides of Darkness could be a good game to speedrun, but there aren't many times up here now. It would be more fun with some targets and competition. To help get things rolling, I'd like to offer prizes to the best new verified IL (individual level) records posted for each level before the end of March. 🙂

Prize scale:

- 5 USD each for the top new times in Orc 1-10 and Human 1-10.

- 10 USD each for the top new times in Orc 11-13 and Human 11-13.

- 20 USD each for the top new times in Orc 14 and Human 14.

So if you managed to set new record times for every level, and nobody could beat any of them before the end of March, you would be eligible for all 200 USD.

These must be new runs, recorded and posted after this thread and before the end of March 2018 (UTC), and they must be the top in their category (per the rules below).

There are currently no rules defined for the IL categories. However, for the purpose of these prizes I will apply the following rules:

- Fog of War must be enabled.

- Time is measured from the last frame before the level appears, to the first frame after the victory message appears.

- You're not allowed to save and reload in the middle of a level.

- The War2Combat client is allowed.

- If I get a record instead of you, nobody gets that prize. (But if we tie, it goes to you.)

- If nobody beats a previous record, nobody gets that prize.

Prizes will be delivered by PayPal.

Tips:

- Don't forget to set the game speed to fastest.

- You can enter the cheat/chat/debug code "tigerlily" to enable level jumping, and then just enter "orc 1", "human 12", etc., to jump to a level at any time. (I don't consider this is a cheat because it's just used to go to the level, and doesn't affect gameplay at all.)