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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Is it possible to get 500 points in Police Quest IV?

« on: January 31, 2015, 01:24:04 PM »

I feel the same way about Police Quest 4 - I can see that they were trying to make a realistic game but in some cases comes across as quite dull. Still, the score total has me interested at the moment so I'm replaying it just in case I can squeeze out those last few points. I've currently completed the first two days, getting 42 points at the end of day 1 and 209 points at the end of day 2. If this can be bettered please let me know.
 

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Is it possible to get 500 points in Police Quest IV?

« on: January 30, 2015, 04:14:58 AM »

I'd like to find out if the score counter in Police Quest 4 goes as high as 500, as unlike with most Sierra games there is no maximum score total shown. When I first played the game years ago around 2005, the highest point score I could get was 424. When I played the game in 2008 I achieved a score of 457 which I achieved by just talking to everyone, using the notepad, examining everything I could, etc. I noticed in some recent Youtube playthroughs that scores were going into the 470-480 point range, and now there is a point list on GameFAQs which takes the score all the way up to 493, although the author admits that 3 of these points may be a glitch. Has anyone ever found these missing points and achieved a score of 500? If not, what's the highest score you've reached?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Finding maximum points in Sierra games using script editor

« on: January 22, 2015, 09:28:24 AM »

Thanks for your reply, Cloudee. It seems like I'll just have to use the messages tab in SCI viewer then to find out which actions might give points within a location.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Finding maximum points in Sierra games using script editor

« on: January 22, 2015, 04:42:50 AM »

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the correct board to post this on, but I'll give it a go here anyway. There are two Sierra games which I am unsure of the maximum point total on: Pepper's Adventures in Time and Police Quest IV: Open Season. The highest score I've found for Pepper's Adventures in Time is 564 and the highest for Police Quest IV is 493. Is it possible to use a script editor to extract information on the exact actions that give points? I've used SCI editor on Police Quest IV to look at the script for a specific room (script 100 being the opening crime scene), and the word "point" is contained in that script a number of times, but I just can't seem to make sense of it. Does anyone know a way of extracting just the actions that give points in these games?