OrionSR Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 A special mention should be made of Poland's young Andrew Noops n Gleh, whoused to frequent the ign.com message boards. From what seems most reliable from looking at various web pages, he flew the GTA "III" Dodo for 176,488 seconds and was awarded by Rockstar with a special flight rating in "Vice City." http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/561641-grand-theft-auto-vice-city/faqs/33731 Trainers have their uses; don't feel bad about using them to train for complex or difficult tasks. In this case they weren't so helpful but an editor provided a fairly quick method discover that the maximum Pilot Ranking seems to be Maverick, according to the scale we can actually earn in game. I'm sure roggan won't be satisfied with the edited ranking and will fly the required hours necessary to earn it in-game. I was wondering the same thing about replay's for flight time. It would certainly reduce the risk of semi-afk flying. Please let me know the results of your experiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Phreak Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 AFK flying can be done with the AT-400. If you put a stack of coins on 1 of the rudder controls it will circle nicely on it's own. Winds might push it off the map so you have to keep an eye on the weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I'm sure roggan won't be satisfied with the edited ranking and will fly the required hours necessary to earn it in-game. Absolutely. I was wondering the same thing about replay's for flight time. It would certainly reduce the risk of semi-afk flying. Please let me know the results of your experiments. Dunno about replays, but I tried to sit in a running helicopter on the ground and then hold the 'UP' button to soar highly in the sky. I did both of these per 6-7 minutes of real time, but it gave me only 44 seconds of flying time, so if you want to do it AFK, at least you have to fly circling around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) So, Ace and Maverick are the Highest Rankings? Okay, I'll fly around for 2 more Hours. @GTAPhreak Don't you mean Rudder Controls and Acceleration? If so, does it matter if It's Left or Right? Edited March 19, 2013 by lol232 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrionSR Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Most planes will fly just fine without acceleration, and if you are using coins/rubberbands to autopilot then the plane will be considerably more stable without acceleration. However, I'm not sure you'll get full credit for the flight time without acceleration since hovering in a helicopter didn't provide full credit. It would be something worth investigating ahead of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Phreak Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 @GTAPhreak Don't you mean Rudder Controls and Acceleration?If so, does it matter if It's Left or Right? The AT-400 will maintain altitude without acceleration, as far as I remember it will actually climb slightly until max altitude. It doesn't matter which rudder direction you use. Also there's no problem with a wanted level, because Hydra's won't chase the AT-400, just stay away from the SAM sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Late reply but thanks, I'll try that! Anyway, I'm having troubles impounding the Raindance in LS Impound, I try Pimping missions, it never appears over there, I try to Impound it myself, it disappears. Any tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Late reply but thanks, I'll try that! Anyway, I'm having troubles impounding the Raindance in LS Impound, I try Pimping missions, it never appears over there, I try to Impound it myself, it disappears. Any tips? What doesn't appear, the broadway??? If so just go somewhere else until it changes the street name and return to that spot again, little tip though the vehicle impounded has to be near the broadway for it to work. About impounding yourself, I don't know what you are doing wrong but try impounding cars first and then retrieving them again before the planes and choppers, when you can do those ok the aircrafts won't be a problem. Just remember that when exiting the impounds you have to look to the spot where the vehicles are. Again for aircrafts you shouldn't have to do that but just in case. Of course this isn't fail proof sometimes it might fail, hell even garages aren't 100% safe, but for me that only happens once in a lot of tries. Another thing sometimes choppers won't spawn correctly in the LS impound but just make it close the invisible door and open again and it should respawn eventually in the correct position. ###edit### Also the spawning or not of the broadway might have something to do from where you arrive to the location, like the hunter and the leviathan in verdant meadows. Edited March 28, 2013 by fnxrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I mean, when I activate Pimping, the Raindance doesn't appear in the impound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) I mean, when I activate Pimping, the Raindance doesn't appear in the impound. That's weird!!! Does it disapear near the broadway??? Does that happens only with the raindance or also with the other choppers or vehicles???? ###edit### Another thing I remembered do you have any other choppers impounded??? Maybe they prevent it from impounding. Large vehicles tend to not being replaced in the impound. Edited March 28, 2013 by fnxrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 No, I don't - My LS Impound is Empty! And, no, I haven't tried with other vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 No, I don't - My LS Impound is Empty!And, no, I haven't tried with other vehicles. Sorry been out for a couple of days!!! Maybe you could post a video on how you deal with the impounds maybe that way we could find something you are doing wrong if that is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 It's okay, and never mind! I managed to Store a Raindance, a Police Maverick and a News Chopper over there! Although, I pushed the Raindance too, it got stored, I got lucky. Other than that, I also had no luck to get a Tow Truck to save on a SF:PD impound, but towing the one in SF Airport isn't hard, so that is what I did. It saved! A little request I have, where is the save spot in LV Impound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) The LV impound has 2 floor the spot is in "-1" it's a small squared area ###edit### Another thing about this impound if you park any vehicle in the emerald isle multi-story garage and change floor you will impound that vehicle in the LVPD impound. Edited March 30, 2013 by fnxrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) It's a pretty cool spot! Do you know any vehicles that would be good to be saved over there? What about Barracks OL? Cropduster? Another thing, I sow a Berkley's RC Van in the desert, not in the mastersave, 6 months ago in my playthru with LV missions. Is it possible to get it in Ocean Docks? Another thing, I managed to obtain the exhaustless FCR900, I'm trying to get the exhaustless BF-400. It seems difficult. Right now I want the Engineless NRG-500. Also, any tips to get the Rustler? Getting it there isn't hard, what is hard, is taking it out of the Airport is hard. On every jump, my rustler is either flipped or I also keep trying to get the rustler to be my favourite variation, Yellow with blue-ish tail, or dark blue with brown-ish tail. Edited March 30, 2013 by lol232 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) It's a pretty cool spot!Do you know any vehicles that would be good to be saved over there? What about Barracks OL? Cropduster? Another thing, I sow a Berkley's RC Van in the desert, not in the mastersave, 6 months ago in my playthru with LV missions. Is it possible to get it in Ocean Docks? Another thing, I managed to obtain the exhaustless FCR900, I'm trying to get the exhaustless BF-400. It seems difficult. Right now I want the Engineless NRG-500. Also, any tips to get the Rustler? Getting it there isn't hard, what is hard, is taking it out of the Airport is hard. On every jump, my rustler is either flipped or I also keep trying to get the rustler to be my favourite variation, Yellow with blue-ish tail, or dark blue with brown-ish tail. Barracks OL ok no prob the airplanes you can easily impound the cropduster the problem is taking it out of there because the ramp and the impound entrance are too narrow. haven't really tried to impound much vehicles there at this time I usually use that impound later. About the Berkeley's Van I have never noticed them out of the missions but yes I think they do spawn rarely in ocean docks too. Just check the file "cargrp.dat" and it's there so it should show up with other vans. The Rustler the real problem is taking it out of the airport, pratice that before with no wanted level (use cheats if you don't want to try on a different save). The only tip I can give to do the jump I had good odds towing it and for the jump don't go full speed slow thing a little when driving up the ramp then at moment of the jump realease the aircraft it tend to avoid the flipping of the rustler. Edited March 30, 2013 by fnxrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Getting the Berkley's van in a master save is a matter of fifteen minutes. All you have to do is get to this place: http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5566/berkley1.jpg And just wait till Berkley arrives in the traffic Then jack it. http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5268/berkley2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Damn, I'm more interested in that NRG-500 you've got. I had tonnes of attempts to get it, not only that the enginenless NRG-500 never appeared, the NRG-500 itself hasn't appeared at all. Are there any other ways to get it other than Vigilante? Either ways, I'll try that method out straight away, thanks! Also, fnx, I actually had more luck not getting it flipped by speeding rather than driving it off slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Damn, I'm more interested in that NRG-500 you've got.I had tonnes of attempts to get it, not only that the enginenless NRG-500 never appeared, the NRG-500 itself hasn't appeared at all. Are there any other ways to get it other than Vigilante? Either ways, I'll try that method out straight away, thanks! Unlucky, I've always been able to get it in 15 minutes same as this Berkley. You can try a lot of reloading from Ganton and get quickly to NRG spawning lot, but I don't guarantee the success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Eh, I'm using my own mastersave, I can't really save in Ganton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Well, then just keep Vigilanting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 How many chances are there for NRG-500 to spawn? Also, does it have to be the Santa Maria safehouse? I have to wait extra 2-3 seconds for the garage to start opening. Can it be Mulholland safehouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 How many chances are there for NRG-500 to spawn?Also, does it have to be the Santa Maria safehouse? I have to wait extra 2-3 seconds for the garage to start opening. Can it be Mulholland safehouse? Don't know about chances. I always get it from Santa-Maria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) I got it once or twice in other places but had more chances in santa maria too. ###edit### Any tips on how to maximize weapons ammunition at this time??? Edited March 30, 2013 by fnxrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrionSR Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 My ammo run video shows a good route for stocking up on uzi, shotgun, and assault ammo. You might be able to exploit the quick respawning (45 seconds if CJ isn't too close) sniper rifle near the SF cropduster (not available on "restart" saves) to stock up on sniper ammo. It's kind of a tough spot though with plenty of cop spawns. Truly maxing the ammo isn't practical since the game can remember some ridiculous number in the billions or something. For weapons with a clip and reload animation I prefer not to have so much ammo that the clip count disappears (>9999). I ran up CJ's respect and weapon skills against the cops that spawn inside of the hangar at the SF navy base where helicopters and cop cars are not a problem and it's easy to stash a getaway bike to use when armor and health get too low. CJ managed to collect an awful lot of pistol ammo before I had the stats I wanted. Are these the types of suggestions you were looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnxrak Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 No not really I was expecting some kind of exploit to rise your ammunition quick I already have the smg and machine pistol maximized, also the ak47 and m4 almost done but shotguns and pistols are hard to maximize specially the silence pistol but I will do a "few" gun runs to maximize them. It's not really an important task but since getting KOSA is now much easier I will try and do that. Thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 For weapons with a clip and reload animation I prefer not to have so much ammo that the clip count disappears (>9999). The same. I ran up CJ's respect and weapon skills against the cops that spawn inside of the hangar at the SF navy base where helicopters and cop cars are not a problem and it's easy to stash a getaway bike to use when armor and health get too low. CJ managed to collect an awful lot of pistol ammo before I had the stats I wanted. As for me, I maximized the respect by killing cops near the hotel where the mission 'Reuniting of the Families' proceeds. Very simple: kill all the cops, get inside, drink a sprunk, exit the building, kill all the spawned cops, repeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 For weapons with a clip and reload animation I prefer not to have so much ammo that the clip count disappears (>9999). The same. Me too. I see no point of getting max ammo, I always wanna have my ammo below 10k. About what Roggan said concerning the respect: Thanks, I'll definitely try that! I have 40% respect, so how many minutes or hours till I max it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roggan Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I have 40% respect, so how many minutes or hours till I max it out? I guess about 2 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol232 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) DAMN, I am long a way to go! I also just checked, it seems like it's 50%. EDIT: Concerning Berkley, I stood there for nearly and hour and not a single one showed up. Edited March 31, 2013 by lol232 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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