This is just a Shower Thought I had one day and just now thought to outline it.

The ultimate goal is to deposit the largest number of Unique Power Moons in a single visit to the Odyssey. The number displayed on the Odyssey Balloon has no bearing on this due to a reason I will bring up later.

The general idea goes like this: 1. Complete a modified version of the Any% Route 2. Farm coins and buy moons until you have 500 moons to unlock Darker Side 3. Obtain all Power Moons that are inside worlds without any Warp Paintings 4. Obtain all remaining Power Moons and deposit this amount at the Odyssey

This should result in Mario depositing hundreds of Unique Power Moons.

I only have two problems with this route.

1: I don't even know if you can complete it. Seeing as you normally only need around 120 extra moons to complete the 999 moon secret, I don't know if Nintendo let's you buy infinite moons or if they capped it at the minimum necessary amount.

2: I don't know how to modify the Any% route. To make sure that you can get the most Power Moons at once, you need to get all the Power Stars from Toadette. This means that you need to get specific moons to make sure you can get every single Star in a single visit to Mushroom Kingdom. This seems like a routing nightmare, and I can't be bothered to spend the time to tag every single moon to figure out which moon increases which counter.

This is where the community (and maybe a healthy dose of neural networking) would come in. I have no idea how to route something like this, but I'm sure other people do. Maybe if we figure this out, it could get added to the Category Extensions page on Speedrun.com.