If anyone would be interested... There is a possibility, however slight, that this strat could become relevant. If you exit a battle in GC, you lose. However, this could be used to your advantage. I timed it and on PC it takes about a minute to execute a join and then quit and start a map that the AI selects. The reason this could be viable is that you still only have to win 8 maps. You would then get to use the home bonus a second time. Example: if i owned tatooine as my only planet, i could lose the first battle. Depending on my routing, I might want to play on dune sea rather than Kashyyyk Docks. If i can finish DS more than a minute faster, then the route is viable. I get to skip a whole planet and Docks then. This could be used twice (probably want at the start because RNG), but then you need to skip a whole planet. You still only have to win 8 maps but need to save over two minutes then. If there are particularly bad planets for a certain side, its something to consider.
I used this in my recent run as droids, I believe I quit two battles and quickly won twice on Rhen Var: Harbor since it is the friendly planet the droids start with, and hence the first one the clones always attack. So yeah, I basically traded Kashyyyk for 2x Rhen Var Harbor and it ended up saving time pretty consistently because you get to nuke a second planet and Harbor is easy and consistent to win via droideka strat.
Lots of possibilities with this trick!
Would this make it more RNG though because you need the AI to pick a certain map albeit faster?
If you do it on the first map, the AI only has one choice (in the case of CIS, Harbor). There's RNG involved if you want it to be a different map than the starting planet.
Did this strat and saved 5 seconds on my Easy ROTS PB, heh ,doing this on hard is not viable imo you almost never get the quick kill on Harbor and doing it twice in a row is impossible. Also the loading screen is super quick on Lemons 360 it takes a bit longer on OG xbox :( idk what to do. Also you are savage for going for this at the end of your run I have to do it first because I lose the damn fortress every time. Or I get Jedi Hero on Platforms. The game just always finds a way to screw me over I swear I am the most unlucky runner of all time. Theed and Temple are extremely frustrating and you know Cloud City is waiting to cause unavoidable problems. Maybe blow up Tatooine first so they can't pull Jedi. I am also convinced Garrison does absolutely nothing like they forgot to program it or something. Can I get any confirmation on that? Also while Dune Sea can be done super fast Moist Eisely is a nightmare so blowing up Tatoo serves it's purpose. Almost tied PB doing 9 maps with Dune sea lol. Also orbital sensors does something to the AI and makes them potato sometimes maybe.
The Xbox One version has manually configured shorter loading times (it's easily moddable on PC).
I have seen garrison/reinforcements work, although with the spottiness of those bonuses it doesn't surprise me. I noticed even when I played as a kid that reinforcements didn't always work, but it definitely did at other points. There has to be a threshold hit (something like 40 reinforcements exactly) then it gives 50 more.
I don't want to blow up Tatooine because I like Jedi :)
Um we might need milliseconds... I tied Dark's 3912 with a different route...
