marcf999 in third position has a wrong time, the IGT of 1:36:51 is good but the Time should be 1:43:56 which is what I calculated. One second more or less depending on how precise you want to calculate.

Also, look at 48:56 in his video, was at 391m in investments and went up to 618m at 49:06, that is 10 seconds only for a total of 227m profits in 10 seconds. Only with Investment Engine level 6.

I've done 115 runs up to now, never saw that happened. That is a really big crazy boost. Even Esth, the World Record doesn't show that.

This game is extremely easy to cheat. Players like marcf999 having only two runs in the same game (the other is obsolete but still can be found in his profile) and no other runs on speedrun.com and turning off comments in his youtube video doesn't give him any notoriety.

I do not know how other games on speedrun.com that can be easily cheated handle this situation but I would like to hear anybody's opinion.

marcf999 Time is still wrong in Leaderboards

As for the Investments, I've found another player with a crazy boost very fast. At this point, I would say it's probably legit because there's a lot of randomness in Investments but still worth investigating and having a discussion about, would really love to hear other's opinion.

In details for marcf999 :

• 48:51 416m
• 48:53 361m
• 48:56 391m
• 48:58 417m
• 49:01 469m
• 49:03 550m
• 49:06 618m
• 49:09 626m

A total boost from 48:53 @ 361m to 49:09 @ 626m is 16.5m/s

And in details for strawdonkey :

• 54:39 387m
• 54:42 333m
• 54:43 379m
• 54:46 407m
• 54:49 410m
• 54:51 473m
• 54:54 454m
• 54:55 436m
• 54:56 503m
• 54:59 531m
• 55:02 624m
• 55:06 722m
• 55:09 805m
• 55:11 952m
• 55:14 1116m

A total boost from 54:42 @ 333m to 55:14 @ 1116m is 23.7m/s

marcf999's time has been corrected in the Leaderboards.

Messages sent to both players for clarifications since the boost of money is too fast and too high. The chance of this happening in a real normal game is close to zero.

Like I said, I made a lot of runs and never saw this happened. Has to be said that this section of the game is the hardest because it's so random. You get the Green or the Red light to continue for the rest of the game depending on how the Investments will turn out. The other sections of the game are pretty much the same in term of time, a lot less random.

Having good Investments is easy to reproduce by changing variables in javascript like I did with other variations of this game, information available in Guides.

After 4 months, never received an answer from them. I will keep their records for now but will make a new spreadsheet and calculate the average money every speedrun makes in the second phase which is the Investment. By calculating it, we will have a lot more information. Stay tuned. Slow project.

Investment spreadsheet calculation is coming. Will keep the records. Was really lucky at the end but actually at the start, wasn't that lucky. Still a really good run but seems legit. Closing this thread.