Lounge for The Chain Game: San Andreas

[OrionSR]

 

@Orion, I think that if you could do a modded VC save like the SA one, then a Chain Game for VC might do pretty well. What do you think?

I'd be happy to provide technical support for custom VC or GTAIII Chain Game saves, but I lack any inspiration.

[rubregg]

New unique jumps:

 

The other day I noticed in an unmodded game that those two ramps in the Foster Valley Mall (inside and on the roof) weren't there. Added objects like the boat ramps or the pirate ship, right?

 

BTW I really like these four new jumps (the 'southern SF bunch'), well done

 

[cacarla]

Rubregg: That CG link is one of the best posts ever created mate. Excellent.. A treat for new players like me

The names of all the players just makes it beautiful . Thanks JAJ and Rubregg

 

. Just one question out of anxiousness. Where are the old players?? Plaka, AJ, PD and all?

[Girish]

. Just one question out of anxiousness. Where are the old players?? Plaka, AJ, PD and all?

PD was back after a short break recently and he got the 'Best Returning Member' award too. But he's got busy with his life again I guess. As for the rest, I haven't seen them post in a long time. They too are, most probably, busy with their lives.

[cacarla]

Glad to see you back Afinn. Now were at full strength . Hope you stay longer this time.

[aFinn]

Hello cacarla, thanks, I was only on vacation for a while, away from home, but now I'm back, at least for a day or two

[Girish]

I believe I just finished the quickest turn. 5 minutes, ftw.

 

f*ck, and I just made the 1000th post too. Congrats to all CG players!

[cacarla]

YAY a 1000 posts. Unlimited would be happy . Congrats to Girish and all the people who posted in this Lounge.

 

@Girish: Why dont you post your breathtaking record in the SA record books?? Man!!! 5 minutes is out of the world. This involves uploading and downloading time too right?? Which means the actual time taken to complete the mission is even more less than that.. . Good Job Bro.

[Girish]

 

@Girish: Why dont you post your breathtaking record in the SA record books?? Man!!! 5 minutes is out of the world. This involves uploading and downloading time too right?? Which means the actual time taken to complete the mission is even more less than that..   . Good Job Bro.

Well, it's not an official in-game stat so it doesn't qualify for an record. Also, not everyone has the same internet connection, so the uploading/downloading time for everyone is going to be different. Nonetheless, I just felt like mentioning it so I did.

[OrionSR]

 

Also noticed that our money is now in the negative. Is that the UFO glitch which Orion has been talking about?

The large dept is the UFO Curse, but not a glitch. However, a "glitch" will occur if someone was to visit the Wheel O' Fortune; this could either max out the money or put CJ even deeper in dept, depending on the choices.

[cacarla]

Wow, so much of news behind this eh? I never knew this. Can we remove this dept Orion?? It looks kinda odd. Also, i noticed that before i attempted the mission "Stowaway" the money was somewhere 160000 odd. After the mission it was 150000odd. It drops.. Damn .

[JAJ]

Some hints on how to reduce the 'UFO Curse' debt:

• collect from the assets
• kill the Mafia hit squads & collect the dropped $
• collect from the dealers
• collect the $ from the Pirate ship near Toreno's
• collect the $ from The 4 Dragons Casino
• do some of the odd jobs again; (example) Freight Train will yeild $50000
• there are also 'other' ways to get $ if you use your imagination...
• Edit: CJ can get some food by taking a girlfriend on a diner date

Apologies to OrionSR, I missed the hint in the last round to do the UFO Curse & was away from my gaming computer too long to get it started for that round. Edited August 12, 2008 by JAJ

[OrionSR]

 

 

kill the Mafia hit squads & collect the dropped $

 

Edit: CJ can get some food by taking a girlfriend on a diner date

 

Apologies to OrionSR, I missed the hint in the last round to do the UFO Curse & was away from my gaming computer too long to get it started for that round.

Wow, those Mafia guys are really loaded. I swear I pickup up close to 15k from a single hit squad.

 

Besides food dates, which tend to be more rare later in the dating routine, other sources of health are to jack a Hotdog Truck (hence the new spawn in the Panopticon), enter an Ambulance, or visit the armory for a heart icon. Food dates are the only significant contribution to a low fat level.

 

No need to apologize. There's an ebb and flow to the rounds and there isn't always an opportunity to try out everything. We're coming pretty close to a complete game on this round, 100% plus all the extras. Well, no video scores, that messes up the easter eggs anyway.

 

Oh yeah... I think rubregg's get well message is still in place.

[GTA Phreak]

 

Besides food dates, which tend to be more rare later in the dating routine, other sources of health are to jack a Hotdog Truck (hence the new spawn in the Panopticon), enter an Ambulance, or visit the armory for a heart icon. Food dates are the only significant contribution to a low fat level.

As far as I remember: Ambulances and hearts doesn't count as eating, only for health.

Only the Hotdog truck count as a meal (CJ stops loosing health due to starving)

 

I can't recheck it myself (haven't got a functioning PC capable of running SA at the moment)

[OrionSR]

As far as I remember: Ambulances and hearts doesn't count as eating, only for health.

Only the Hotdog truck count as a meal (CJ stops loosing health due to starving)

 

I can't recheck it myself (haven't got a functioning PC capable of running SA at the moment)

I'm fairly certain you are correct. That's the way I figure it when deciding on a meal. Saving, (getting busted or wasted) will also solve the hunger problem, but it doesn't seem to contribute any fat. I've also noticed that Coffee seems to be fairly fattening. I frequently get pop up messages reporting CJ change of fat level during the coffee cut-scene at the end of a date, so perhaps a dance or driving date can still pad the fat a little. Or, perhaps the body rebuild from the dinner date doesn't get applied until CJ enters the cut-scene.

[JAJ]

I think that I've noticed a sort of pattern with the Mafia hit squads during the UFO Curse.

When the UFO Curse was started in an earlier round or during testing, the debt was much higher, I would guess between $3 mil & $5 mil, the hit squads consisted of 2 carloads of hitmen (4 per car) & when all were killed they droped about $90000.

In this round when I played the debt was $1.3 mil - there was 1 car that had 4 hitmen in it & when killed they droped about $40000 to $45000.

I talked to my brother about his turn & he said with the debt at $24000 that there was 1 car with just 2 hitmen in it & they droped about $15000. So it looks like the greater the debt, the more hitmen are sent after CJ.

[dice]

 

So it looks like the greater the debt, the more hitmen are sent after CJ.

Yes, I experience that on my normal saves as well. But I have never seen 2 cars attack me

Edited August 14, 2008 by ^- Dice ->

[OrionSR]

I think that I've noticed a sort of pattern with the Mafia hit squads during the UFO Curse.

When the UFO Curse was started in an earlier round or during testing, the debt was much higher, I would guess between $3 mil & $5 mil, the hit squads consisted of 2 carloads of hitmen (4 per car) & when all were killed they droped about $90000.

In this round when I played the debt was $1.3 mil - there was 1 car that had 4 hitmen in it & when killed they droped about $40000 to $45000.

I talked to my brother about his turn & he said with the debt at $24000 that there was 1 car with just 2 hitmen in it & they droped about $15000. So it looks like the greater the debt, the more hitmen are sent after CJ.

Okay, so this is more interesting than expected. Do you want to investigate more in future rounds or should I start posting clues from the game script?

 

[radicell]

 

Ok i'll take a turn..

Mission: Madd Dogg/Beat the Cock

Called by: Cacarla

Link: *CG32*/ Hmvartak

Status: Completed

Completion %: 90.91%

Notes: Mission passed, respect+. Also i noticed that in the past few rounds, the only thing that was incomplete was the Beat the Cock trialthon, even though it is totally unnecessary for 100% sad.gif . I just thought i'll do it and make this round fully complete colgate.gif . Now, there's no red marked sub-missions in HM's site inlove.gif . thats good isn't it. Now, were heading for a real 100% with nothing left to do lol.gif icon14.gif .

 

cacarla: This isn't very important but I'd just like to point out that the Triathlons were already done in this round by OrionSR earlier, so it wasn't quite necessary. Still, thanks for trying to help fill in the blank spots.

[cacarla]

Ofcourse, I noticed Orion doing some Trialthons but i didnt know that they were the beat the cock . Anyway thanks for the heads up Radicell . It was for my personal satisfaction and also to complete the blanks as you said.

[OrionSR]

Okay, I'm not really expecting anyone to understand or even care, but I just figured out how to rework all the enex connections on existing saves. All I need to do is delete all the existing data and load the save with the modified files and the game rebuilds the new links. Up until now it was believed that a new game was required to implement changes to the links between all the doors in the game.

 

I'll ask again since the question got lost. I looked through the scripts to see if I could learn more about the Debt script responsible for spawning the Mafia during the curse. Should I post what I've learned, or let people investigate the hitmen using conventional methods? If it makes any difference, JAJ's current observations are pretty much on target, and there doesn't appear to be much more to it.

[JAJ]

 

Okay, I'm not really expecting anyone to understand or even care, but I just figured out how to rework all the enex connections on existing saves. All I need to do is delete all the existing data and load the save with the modified files and the game rebuilds the new links. Up until now it was believed that a new game was required to implement changes to the links between all the doors in the game.

Is this about bikes, cars & characters with CJ being able to use the warps?

 

 

I'll ask again since the question got lost.  I looked through the scripts to see if I could learn more about the Debt script responsible for spawning the Mafia during the curse. Should I post what I've learned, or let people investigate the hitmen using conventional methods? If it makes any difference, JAJ's current observations are pretty much on target, and there doesn't appear to be much more to it.

Yeah, I'd be interested in learning about how it works. Maybe I can understand this better than the enex stuff.

 

[OrionSR]

Well, I'm not sure how the enex information will be useful just yet, but if I document things well then someone is liable to come up with a cool application. Basically this discovery means it's pretty easy to update my old saves with the new warps and hideouts we use in the chain game.

 

The main factor in the Dept script is how much money CJ owes. If the dept is -1 to -4999 then only the driver is placed in the car. Additional passengers are added at -5000, -50000, and -500000. Normally, the max possible dept is limited to -1000000, the most that can be borrowed from the casino. Each Mafia attacker gets their money set to 10000. I wasn't unable to find anything that would spawn 2 Mafia cars, but perhaps they can remain on the map long enough for 2 cars to eventually be together. And that's all I could figure out so far. Maybe we'll learn more with additional observations.

Edited August 15, 2008 by OrionSR

[aFinn]

Funny, I've done Los Desperados maybe 2 times before I took a turn on last round on it, and I've never had troubles before, but now I had big problems getting the 2 recruited members to stay in the gang, they'd either bail from the car on the way to Unity Station, or bail just as we got there. Had to try 4 times before I managed to start the mission from Unity Station onwards.

[cacarla]

Funny, I've done Los Desperados maybe 2 times before I took a turn on last round on it, and I've never had troubles before, but now I had big problems getting the 2 recruited members to stay in the gang, they'd either bail from the car on the way to Unity Station, or bail just as we got there. Had to try 4 times before I managed to start the mission from Unity Station onwards.

You're right Afinn.. This is a common problem for me. To Overcome this problem Girish had a great idea. It was to recruit Gang members near unity station since that is the mission starting point, by capturing all the territories around there and recruit Gang members from that place instead og GS. Doing this , the travelling distance reduces and chances of the homies falling out purposefully is less. Precisely, i passed all the times i took a turn for this mission following the above strategy.

[aFinn]

Yes, I have heard about this strategy, but didn't need to resort to that this time, as I eventually managed to do it, thankfully. But funny that I didn't have any troubles previous times, just this time.

[Girish]

Yes, I have heard about this strategy, but didn't need to resort to that this time, as I eventually managed to do it, thankfully. But funny that I didn't have any troubles previous times, just this time.

It's difficult to predict when they'll bail out on you. One thing that frightens them is a nearby explosion. So, maybe if you steer clear of explosions they won't bail out. In some cases, they get frightened by random gun shots too.

[aFinn]

One thing that frightens them is a nearby explosion. So, maybe if you steer clear of explosions they won't bail out. In some cases, they get frightened by random gun shots too.

Ah, I think this might be the key, I think there were some explosions around this time. Hard to avoid those when the riots are on

 

BTW: thanks for keeping the chain game stats Interesting addition with the times.

[gtahomie]

hi everyone i thought i might start the chain game since my game suddenly started working

[cacarla]

 

Mission: Drive-By

Called by: gtahomie

Link:

Status: Completed

Completion %: 10.70%

Notes: Done 1 tag. I done the lowrider race. + Muscle

 

Gtahomie: You did the lowrider race?? Which means it's either badlands A or B. Sorry buddy, but as per the rules we are not supposed to do any of the lowrider races until their respective missions arrive. So, the Officers and JAJ might have a take a quick decision here whether to anull your turn or excuse you this time . Next time please be attentive mate

Edited August 20, 2008 by cacarla