Game cheats

[mongolteiko]

I finished a mission [the American Civil War] in early Dec 1863 while the criteria was 1864.
All the other objectives I got gold. It denied me the 'President' award.
This was moving the troops to Atlanta job.

This game annoys me more than it pleases me in many ways. Really don't know why I started playing it again!

[Thineboot]

What exactly are you complaining about?

To get a golden tick you have to finish the task in half the time from revealing til the last day of the target year.
So if the task was revealed to you before "early Nov 1862" you've finished it not fast enough.

Furthermore to get a President rating during the Campaign you are not allowed to play on Manual pause mode.

[chaney]

Edit; Apologies, I think I read the OP wrong.
The Subject made me think it was another request for cheats, rather than a complaint that the game cheated the player. See later post below.
/Edit

I'm pretty sure I got President on the full Campaign and used Manual Pause on all but the scenario with no competition.

I have read that people use Cheat Engine with success but am not aware of any inherent cheat codes.

The simplest thing would just to be to just claim that you got full gold marks and President rating and are ultra-1337 master of all mwahahaha. That's a cheat, too, and just as good as making the computer do something with somebody else's software. Saves time and effort.

What I really suggest is to do some learning. I'm sure if you have motivation to get the President rating you can do it with no cheats. You may even find it feels great to achieve that.

As far as the game annoying you more than it pleases you, well, that is something you can change. Trying difficult things can be more satisfying than just doing easy things, even if you fail. Sorry to get all Master Po on you, but it has to start somewhere.

[X037]

Originally posted by chaney:

The simplest thing would just to be to just claim that you got full gold marks and President rating and are ultra-1337 master of all mwahahaha. That's a cheat, too, and just as good as making the computer do something with somebody else's software. Saves time and effort.

Should think so. Still, to some the effort of finding a cheat and applying it seems to be sufficient to grant them satisfaction. And by some I mean quite a lot of people.

[chaney]

True, but just asking for a cheat seems so minimal, how can that be at all satisfying? I guess I don't have to understand it for it to be true, fair enough, you are right.

[mongolteiko]

Total BS @ Thineboot.

It's a pretty crap game then if you have to spam passenger trains just to get an achievement. That's like cheating in itself.

[chaney]

Ok, let's try to resolve the confusion.

I think this is a rare case of Thineboot typing total BS. Gold checkmark requires completing a task in half the time from the START of a scenario to the stated deadline. We all make mistakes, I hope this isn't my second blunder in the same thread. (Edit: My bad, sorry.)

I'm not sure of the scenario dates, but if it starts 1/1/1860 and the task deadline is 1864, that means the end of 1864 IIRC. That means you have 2 1/2 years, the middle of 1862 would be the deadline for gold. (There are some funny details I'll skip because I don't remember them :)

Tough, but not impossible. Spamming trains won't help. Using a moderate number of trains effectively will. Grow every relevant City to increase the number of possible passengers. (All from distant memory.) Bring troops from further north to the main starting City, then take them all to Atlanta. Start as early as possible. Leaving "source" cities without a train to load the troops for over 14 days will lose some of those potential travelers. Make sure the track for those trains isn't too long, or they won't take it.

This scenario has a lot to teach, and the lessons are learned by research and repeated effort for most of us.

[mongolteiko]

I just redid it from a save and got the 'president' with only a couple months difference.
The game should tell you all the 'winning' conditions.
Edit: I just spammed loads of 'express' trains.

The last part starts in 1862 and the deadline 1864. I did it just now in Sept. 1863 [just 2 and a bit months earlier than the green tick I got before.

The game is still crap though. Just pumped out dlc's instead of fixing things, like the launcher, track laying,constant breakdowns [in the real world, no-one could operate like that]. Bringing out a 'complete edition' then releasing another dlc after. Con merchants.

[Thineboot]

It is indeed your second one, dear chaney:
[Solved] Golden tick is [not] synonymous with "Task completed in half the time (max. score)"

Originally posted by Thineboot:

Since there is no other hint within the game except for the pop-up ... what means Task completed in half the time?

Until now we (those who were talking about it in the forum from time to time) all agreed that tasks start at the same day as the scenario starts and end on 31st December of the target year.
That works perfectly fine in Free mode when all 12 tasks are revealed at the start of the game.
Same is true when a scenario shows a few tasks as for "us" only the first few tasks are critical to be completed in half the time. You have to complete them in half the time since game start.
But when tasks show up as completed in half the time after these dates ... see above.

Back to Chapter 1 and run another test. The tasks show up after you've finished the introduction. Mission starts on 1st January, 1863. Using Trainiac forced the game to go on and the tasks showed up on 29th March, 1863. First two tasks end in 1864.
If I'm right completed in half the time should be eligible until 13th February, 1864 instead of 31st December, 1863.
On 1st January, 1864 a golden tick shows up.
On 12th February, 1864 a golden tick shows up.
On 14th February, 1864 a green tick shows up.
On early 13th February 1864, unfortunately a Saturday, a golden tick shows up.
On late 13th February 1864 a green tick shows up.

So it's not a bug but an undocumented feature :)

Originally posted by chaney:

Tenacity - amazing! Thanks for the details and report :)

[chaney]

Sorry, it won't be my last either.