From what I understand... The 5-minute timer is not primarily a way to stop hackers from setting times. Rather, it is designed to give players the same thrill as rounds-based online racing. You practice/warmup until you get consistent, and then go for an official time. And you know it's the run tha...

Well, I wouldn't call people who can have consistent clean runs "no lifers" or whatever. That's a bit rude and makes a lot of assumptions. Those players are simply really good at the game. Maybe they have spent a lot of time playing, or maybe they managed to get a good wheel/pedal controll...

I totally agree with you 100% but you're probably not going to find any support here. It seems that this is an elitist game now, where they expect you to be able to do perfect runs in your sleep or else you shouldn't be allowed to post a good official time. They are going to tell you that your reaso...

I won a Gold and ran into the 5 minute timer now, so it's even worse than I thought. This game is now for elitist players only. Anyone who isn't a God at this game may as well not even install it anymore. Very sad what they have done. If there's a problem with hackers, they should fix the security p...

I just reinstalled TM2 after taking a break from it for a while, and now it seems like you have to beat the Gold Medal time before you can record an official time... Can this possibly be true? As I recall it used to have a timer that counted down a couple minutes before you could do official races, ...

Pretty much anything you do to a map requires recalculating the shadows and validation. Even if you just changed one tree tile in the corner of the map, everything resets because as far as the editor is concerned, any change could affect the whole course.