Welcome to Speedrunner of the Week, a contest tailored for the fastest players in Platform Racing 2! We have the racers, the fast racers, and those who are above them all: Speedrunners. Do you have what it takes to become a Speedrunner?

• Each week a new level is given a target time and expert time for contestants to beat. If you complete the target time you get 1 point added onto your total score. If you are super speedy and also manage to complete the expert time you will gain 1 extra point, bringing your total to 2 just from beating the set times.
  
  
• You can also gain points if you place in a podium spot against your competitors: if you set the fastest time that week you will gain 3 points, if you come in with the second fastest time you will get 2 points, and if you set the third fastest time you will get 1 extra point. Make note however, you will only be granted these podium points if you have beaten the target time.
  
  
• Submissions will close on Sunday 12:00AM EDT. Be sure to convert this time into your own timezone if necessary to avoid any late submissions!
  

• Any runs that have been posted after the submission date will not be counted for that week. Please note that Sunday 12:00AM EDT is your deadline and not when I post the "submission's closed" comment on the thread.
  
  
• You are allowed to submit as many runs as necessary; you are not just limited to one.
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any form of hacks or TAS in your submitted run, doing so will get you banned from participating in any further SOTW events.
  
  
• Any form of glitching which wasn't intended by the creator of the level will not be allowed. If you are unsure whether a glitch is allowed or not, feel free to ask me in a thread post or through Discord.
  
  
• You are not allowed to involve multiple players in your speedrun. however, you are allowed to have someone spectate you for any assistance purposes such as recording runs.
  
  
• In the event of a level with 'Super Flying Cowboy Mode' (SFCM): unless the level uses this mode as a hat remover or if the level specifically requires the use of SFCM, all runs that have this mode enabled must be reset. Any runs that have this mode enabled when it's prohibited will be voided.
  
  
• You are only allowed to use up to 195 stat points (Rank 45).
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any hats which may affect the time of the speedrun. Hats which you are allowed to use include: Exp Hat, Kong Hat, Party Hat, Jigg Hat, Thief Hat and the Jellyfish Hat.
  
  
• You are allowed to get the stat advantages from any of the stat blocks around the level.
  
  
• Regarding video submissions, only video submissions which have been posted on this thread will be allowed. I will not be accepting any downloadable files as submissions. Please make sure that in your video you are also showing your in-game stats, as well as a clear video on your ending time.
  

• 10 Points - Crocodile Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 20 Points - Epic Collar Body
  
  
• 30 Points - 5,000,000 Experience
  
  
• 40 Points - Bat Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 50 Points - 10,000,000 Experience
  

Before you judge the title of this thread & the person who made it.. all I ask if you can just hear me out, thank you.

Do you guys recall when Jiggmin place a 'Captchas' (not sure if that's how you spell it, so sorry if it's wrong).  But when you're able to click the correct picture 'Cat' you get your exp + 250 exp bonus?

1) Bonus Exp:  Bring back a version of 'Captchas' but instead of having to click on a picture, at the end of the race, no matter what type of map it's, campaign, atb, today's best, newest/any modes, you'll receive a 250 exp bonus or in a happy hour, it'll be 500 exp.

This idea would be fair for everyone, it isn't gonna break or increase anything since most player are really trying to be in the rank 70's their exp bar is still gonna take forever to reach. 

2) Artifact Exp Change: 50,000 exp x[Your Rank but in decimal]

For ex; Colind's rank 79, but if you defeat him in a map his rank +5= 84 pts. So I propose where if I get the artifact on Colind it'll be 50,000 exp x0.84 = (42,000 exp + 50,000 exp = 92,000 exp) that Colind will get when getting the Artifact. 

This idea isn't gonna abuse or really gain anything, like I said, my exp bar is currently 227M, 92k/ wk (if the PR2 Staff change it every week, sometime they don't cause they're busy) 92k x4= 368k/month which is equivalent about 12.5 hr of macroing. 

3) VoM Hat Bonus Item: Firstly I want to say, if this item is in PR2, you best know this would be the new $ maker for Jiggmin along w/ combining with Happy Hour. 

Information on the Item; 

Title: Hat Bonus
Logo: Picture of an Exp Hat

Pricing: x1 (50 Jigg Coin) > x2 (100 JC) > x3 (200 JC) > x4 (400 JC) > x5 (800 JC) > etc (you see the pattern)

It's gonna be like Rank Token, for ex; 

50 JC + 100 JC + 200 JC + 400 JC + 800 JC = 1,550 Jigg Coin to get x5 

Intended use: I want this to be where you can buy it for the entire guild and like rank tokens last for a week. (yeah you're adding x5 or more 'Hat Bonus' but you're paying a lot of $ so a week is a fair deal. 

Minimum: x1 
Maximum x10

Be nice when posting your opinion, comment below if you got anymore ideas to this thread.

It's that time again, after about 2 months of practice and running on my own, it's time to begin the race that I've been focusing on for some time. 

this is the plan for RACE DAY




cloudy with a chance of rain!

it will be a 5 PM race, so I will be planning my entire day out to the tee

Sunday, February 28th, 2021; 5:15 start. 

wake up at 9 am and eat breakfast, which will be oatmeal and a banana, with a cup of coffee.
I got to make sure to drink 20 ounces of water!

lunch is going to be something simple so at 3:00 pm I will eat something small. I plan on eating toast and eggs with a glass of soymilk(allergic to dairy) and 20 more ounces of water!

head to the park at 4 pm and I start my warmups and stretch with my foam roller. 

4:30 pm: I should be warmed up and I should go and run 8 minutes out and 8 minutes back, about 2 miles warmup. once done with the warmup run, I will put on running tags and stickers and drink 2 cups of water then huddle (just myself, self positive thoughts and remember back I ran cross country with my team and feel the emotions that are running high in my head. make a 5-minute prayer just like the ol' days)

5:00 pm get in line and get ready for the gun.

stay tuned to find out how the race went in the mud!

before the 3 second countdown before the match begins, if someone quits, the hat disappears and cannot win the match.

I was thinking... wouldn't it be cool if 1 or 2 Guest accounts carry parts and hats that's been obtained in the recent past, maybe the Guest could refresh it's parts as often as once per week or once per month just to make it interesting. This would be pretty sick imo. Let me know your thoughts.

Welcome to Speedrunner of the Week, a contest tailored for the fastest players in Platform Racing 2! We have the racers, the fast racers, and those who are above them all: Speedrunners. Do you have what it takes to become a Speedrunner?

• Each week a new level is given a target time and expert time for contestants to beat. If you complete the target time you get 1 point added onto your total score. If you are super speedy and also manage to complete the expert time you will gain 1 extra point, bringing your total to 2 just from beating the set times.
  
  
• You can also gain points if you place in a podium spot against your competitors: if you set the fastest time that week you will gain 3 points, if you come in with the second fastest time you will get 2 points, and if you set the third fastest time you will get 1 extra point. Make note however, you will only be granted these podium points if you have beaten the target time.
  
  
• Submissions will close on Sunday 12:00AM EDT. Be sure to convert this time into your own timezone if necessary to avoid any late submissions!
  

• Any runs that have been posted after the submission date will not be counted for that week. Please note that Sunday 12:00AM EDT is your deadline and not when I post the "submission's closed" comment on the thread.
  
  
• You are allowed to submit as many runs as necessary; you are not just limited to one.
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any form of hacks or TAS in your submitted run, doing so will get you banned from participating in any further SOTW events.
  
  
• Any form of glitching which wasn't intended by the creator of the level will not be allowed. If you are unsure whether a glitch is allowed or not, feel free to ask me in a thread post or through Discord.
  
  
• You are not allowed to involve multiple players in your speedrun. however, you are allowed to have someone spectate you for any assistance purposes such as recording runs.
  
  
• In the event of a level with 'Super Flying Cowboy Mode' (SFCM): unless the level uses this mode as a hat remover or if the level specifically requires the use of SFCM, all runs that have this mode enabled must be reset. Any runs that have this mode enabled when it's prohibited will be voided.
  
  
• You are only allowed to use up to 195 stat points (Rank 45).
  
  
• You are not allowed to use any hats which may affect the time of the speedrun. Hats which you are allowed to use include: Exp Hat, Kong Hat, Party Hat, Jigg Hat, Thief Hat and the Jellyfish Hat.
  
  
• You are allowed to get the stat advantages from any of the stat blocks around the level.
  
  
• Regarding video submissions, only video submissions which have been posted on this thread will be allowed. I will not be accepting any downloadable files as submissions. Please make sure that in your video you are also showing your in-game stats, as well as a clear video on your ending time.
  

• 10 Points - Crocodile Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 20 Points - Epic Collar Body
  
  
• 30 Points - 5,000,000 Experience
  
  
• 40 Points - Bat Set (+Epic Upgrades)
  
  
• 50 Points - 10,000,000 Experience
  

PR2 v162.1.1: Hotfix

This update is a hotfix.

Fixes
- Lag in races should be greatly reduced on most platforms now. It turns out that the culprit was the frequency at which the race chat formatting was updating. H/T to @oxy for finding and reporting this!

everyboidy was complaiongin to me about pr2 lag so i ran adobe scout with pr2 open and played some traps with the boyz and i found the source of the lag. it's the race chat.

to any players who want to know how to avoid this lag for the time being: do not type at all in the chat, or at least minimize the chatting and message length




i confirmed this by going alone into a campaign map and u can see the performance hit if u spam some ish in chat (max message text) and the lag is exaggerated if u move ur character around. see 52% of the frame time is spend updating text layout! it's being updated every frame--even if the chat doesn't change.

i located the exact line that causes this issue: the line in RaceChat.ensureBottom(), this callback is called twice per frame, and the line can safely be removed for a 50% performance boost (in my case, although it managed to get up to 70% when standfing still) during a maxed out chat.

to be specific it's the setting of the .htmlText that triggers the recalculation of the text layout. i see what you meant to do here, you wanted to set text scroll to bottom and just reused the showMessages() function. i'd put scroll to bottom code directly inline in the ensureBottom handler, or you can listen for the CHANGE event on the textboxes and set scroll to bottom there (cleaner imo).


on a related note text is kinda expensive to draw so there is more performance to be gained by having the ability to hide the race chat completely, or making messages expire after some time

Like how on PR2 style designer you can pick a random style, a button that does that on PR2 (with only the sets you have)
Probably good to make 2 separate buttons, one for the randomisation of sets and another for the randomisation of colours