Someone asked me in a PM why I'm not submitting these TASes to TASvideos. Here's my response to clarify this situation.
Firstly, WA is a commercial game, so the replay files can only be played back by someone with a copy of it installed. This shouldn't be a factor because almost all these other TASed games are commercial games so you have to have a copy of those to play those TASes, but some consider it to be just because it's a PC game and they think of PC games differently. Obviously I disagree.
Secondly, and most importantly, the TAS build is private, so only a small number of people can compete. This makes WA TASes on TASvideos unacceptable. There are plans to fix this so that there can be a public TAS build without being able to cheat in offline unassisted competitions, but that hasn't happened yet because the WA developers have
other priorities and an elegant solution isn't easy.
Thirdly, the established timing for WA TASes is not the same as the TASvideos generic game timing. Our community's WA TASes care only about turn time, not total time, because we have decided that to be more entertaining.
Adelikat has mentioned in IRC that exceptions can be made for different timing. However, the fact that the build is private is not acceptable to me for TASvideos submission. If I submit here, I want everyone to be able to compete.
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