Posted: 6/7/2024 8:29 PM
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Randomno
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Flash TASer of 2023 N64/DS TASer of 2021
Been curious about this game for a while, despite not playing it. I'm making this thread now since there's finally a "non-joke" speedrun which retires as Governor. All runs before this and the existing submission retire immediately (though, that submission would be acceptable nowadays). There's a massive gamefaqs guide for the game. The highest rank you can retire at is King's Advisor (95-100 pts). I have no idea what the route would look like.
Posted: 6/18/2024 6:22 AM
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Twisted_Eye
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Well, I had a wacky idea: Dividing the plunder spends about four months, and towns that get visited by both the Silver Train and the Treasure Fleet usually have the events happen about four months apart, so wouldn't the fastest way to 100 points be to get to one of those towns right away and sack the Train, divide the plunder, sack the Fleet, divide the plunder, divide *again* just to pass the time, and "sack divide sack divide divide repeat" until you've banked enough gold to hit max retirement points?? So I've spent the night testing it out--in a ~four minutes TAS, I can conquer both the Silver Train and Treasure Fleet, and after the second Divide the Plunder, I'm already at 20 retirement points. The problem is that I can't seem to get the Silver Train or the Treasure Fleet to respawn--I was under the impression that they could be hit every year, but if not, it totally ruins my plans. I coulda had a sub-20 minute TAS. Now it seems to me like that "Governor%" speedrun has the best strategy--Play as non-Spanish, go along the Latin American coastline converting cities to other nations and farm the new governors for promotions, and retire after hitting a high rank, looting 100ks of gold, and marrying a respectable Lady. A TAS could do this route really quickly, but it's a shame all the extra sailing is necessary. It would still be much faster--the TAS can attack safely with the ship far more quickly than the land battles. I'm curious what a final time would be.