The D1 Meet'n'Greet

[Galbraith]

Hi,
But when you say things like " . . . real IM is that one without reusing shrines, going back to level 1 for puryfying spring, storing items in town." then redefining Ironman is exactly what you are doing.

Yes, read carefully: "I don't WANT TO redifine" -my second post to that topic, kinda erratum

You cannot have an opinion about what Ironman is, because Ironman is already defined by a set of rules

look at Ironman rules on RealmsBeyond lets say , and count how many rules are common or uncommon, or clarified by someone who didn't create them, you will recognize many of which I wrote about. Yes It is about feeling the rules, and choosing which ones fit me well. If I am playing cave-in IM without buying in town (waste of time) I am still playing IM.
And if you want to play IM with fixed clock - you can say about yourself that you are playing IM, but of course special one, which fits you well. But we are not playing the same IM. That's why it have to be described as IM smth, or IM with or without smth. (i.e. just like duels with dupes -entire different competition, which often cannot be played with 'normal' character).

And as Nystul wrote:

The Ironman concept predates Diablo, and it's application to Diablo seems to have happened independently in multiple communities.

I remember Ironman in ADOM (it's rougelike) but probably it is older than ADOM..

You may have an opinion about the rules

thank you for permision... you know my opinion about some rules.

And about Legit things: I am guidin myself through that like this: To be legit is to not cheat (we can discuss what is cheat, we cannot discuss what is legit) I.E if both players play duels with dupes, and agreed to that rules they don't cheat each others in competition, but cheat in-game rules using bugs, or smth else.

Basically, that is the 'slippery slope' argument which no intelligent person really accepts

"While the logic in a slippery slope argument is invalid, its conclusion may still be true."

Nevermind, I just wanted to say that switching time in generating d1 games to fixed kills randomness of it and it can be considered sumkinda cheating, ya know.

But a Tournament with such dates which are revealed to teams just before start is interesting new way of such competitions in IM. Obviously cannot be confused with 'normal' 'common' IM tournament because organization and gameplay uses smth that totally change way of view for that.