New ZealandYes, I think 50k cycles seems to be the closest to how the game played back then. Awesome! Thanks very much :)
Hi HexTree,
Yeah I did play it back in the day with a reasonable PC, and you could finish off researching in menu but only if u really cranked up the price, the hours definitely weren’t ticking as fast as a second each, more like 2 or 3 seconds for an hour? That way if the time was say 10pm, you only had to wait a few seconds to tick over and get your tax income at midnight.
Yeah, I tried the cycles set at 8k and it was miserably slow, not really playable IMHO, the 50 ‘feels’ about right, the enemy syndicate waves don’t all attack at once like when the cycles are auto/max, and a longer mission such as the police hunt or an escort mission would finish researching even if at minimum cost I.e, 10 days.
In my runs have started adding the dosbox status window as well just to show I’m not manipulating the cycles as I go..
Now I think about it, the old machine must have been a Pentium I (released same year as the game). On the wiki they refer to the FSB (speeds) as between 50 and 66 MHz. Someone more techhead might correct me here, but this seems right?
Yeah that’s a good idea, the unlimited is pretty fun too, cycles set to auto is easy for new runners, get decent equip and mods much faster, and ‘feels’ like a speedrun, I did a run today on auto/max and managed sub 2 hours :)
Sorry for the essay-length reply haha
just for reference, on my test runs I managed a
02:20:00 for my cycles @ 66% fast in research but not mental, a fast playthrough style and choked at Atlantic haha
And for fixed @50k cycles did a 02:53:14 with not too many mistakes
There is massive room for improvement here but yeah, keen to get this category going as it's such an awesome game, best action isometric ever?? IMHO
can find the vods on twitch under same name :>
cheers,
PercyPrune
Hi Guys, can I suggest a couple ideas for running Syndicate (1993) and probably Syndplus.
-American Revolt could be a category of its own but I not sure I ever completed it, lol
I was thinking a 100% category split into at least two subs. -atlantic% could also be included in these too
Fixed Cycle - I have been testing at 50k which seems pretty good, game runs fairly well and is much more "as the dev designed" if you need to wait 30 secs for a nearly done research to finish it's doable. I'm not sure technically if this means runners with faster cpu's will have an advantage? I run at 4k, but DosBox only utilises one core from what I understand so yeah.
Unlimited cycles, where the focus is on maximising research time in menu to get mods/equip, this is where peeps can get really creative, sit there and let lvl3 mods tick up, tax maximisation strats etc and a coupletely different vibe to the fixed cycle run.
Let me know what you think,
Cheers,
PercyPrune
