IOT Speedrun Any%

dragonprobably

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What's up gamers? I'm about to do a speedrun of Imperium Offtopicum.

So it's currently the sign up phase. We don't want to waste too much time in this phase here so I'm going to spend at most 15 seconds doing claims and stats without doing too much work on the fluff bits. We'll just call our faction "British Empire" even though we're in Africa.

Okay, with that out of the way the game has started and it's our first move. We're not going to spend too much time with that. Instead, there's a glitch we can exploit to get to the end here. So if I do a sequence of perfectly timed crouches in the corner of my room here, I can OOB my way under the world. Now we need to time a punch-punch-kick combo perfectly to move across the OOB or we'll fall infinitely and ruin the speedrun. At this very moment, we're moving through the OOB to the GM's house. When we're get there we'll have to use an exploit called "Can-Can" where we do such a rapid progression of kicks that it'll shoot us straight up into the air.

Ok, now we're in the GM's bedroom. We'll need to sneak up on them without us noticing. We just need to make sure we don't step on any of these Doritos. Ok, now comes the hardest part: snapping their neck. Oh that was easier than expected. Ok, now we have to type in the thread, "British Empire has won."

We're done now, gamers, at a whopping 35 seconds. That should put us some where in 3rd place on speedrun.com of our run. We did it, gamers. Remember to like, comment, and subscribe.
 
Going to run as the glorious Imperium of Ma....

And I just got invaded in a turn one war. Thankfully I still got my Newfoundland province and can use my spies to claim beyond.

Spies fail: now I am down to one province in Newfoundland and have been made to the Swedish Commonwealth.

I attempt a rebellion.

Sweden has successful annexed my last land into their realm.

Zee end.
 
Good attempt, although that's an outdated strategy. We discovered a new exploit called "being the GM". I'll show you how it works.
  1. Make a thread for an IOT.
  2. Second post is cancelling the game for unspecified reasons.
As you can see you can save at least 2 frames using this exploit.

Good luck in your future speedrunning efforts!
 
Bah, speedruns. Collectathons are so much more fun. Don't you know how much fun it is to collect all of the McGuffins and declare Enerjak?
 
I had a crack at this earlier today but I got the Caen Meteorite event and it totally ruined my run. I think the GM might just hate me.

I think I've discovered a cute way to get around the GM problem though. I'm going to give it a shot later tonight I'll let you know how it goes.
 
Does anyone know a foolproof fix for the "furversion bug"? I get halfway through a run and then a random country switches to animal people with max tech and hyper aggression, even when it's disabled in the game rules. The UI glitches out and becomes so hideous I literally can't play further.

I've deleted taniot.dll and yet it still keeps cropping up.
 
Not that I'm calling into question your standing as a law-abiding citizen, but the game only creates that file if you pirated the expansion. You can tell because the default empire name becomes Batmanistan.
 
I know the community has been eagerly awaiting my secret strategy and I was having a really good run (wr contender) but while I was doing it a mod came and moved all my posts out of the thread and that kinda killed my interest in the run.

Its not that I have abandoned the community but I need to take a little break from running. Any game that has horsehockey mechanics where a mod can come in and just end your run isn't fun and I'm kinda bummed out about it. What makes it even worse is that the game devs have made it so that if you ever talk about moderator actions you can get a ban. Its basically censorship at this point.
 
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