Love to see people are still playing this game. I can't really see myself ever getting back into it at this point, but I'd still list it in my top 5 all-time favorites. Although it is 2019 now, maybe time to revisit my potential recording options. I'm no world record holder and surely rusty as hell right now, but could be of use to somebody.
As for memorizing customers, it's hard for me to say how much work that really is. I played quite a lot before finding out that was even a thing, so I had a good general feel for most of the customers and locations already before coming across crazytaxi.net. I picked up on some patterns passively, but didn't know it was so strict, predictable, and had been reverse engineered. So I wasn't really starting from scratch, and fully memorizing wasn't TOO bad.
The funny thing was my reaction to discovering that. Since my scores were starting to plateau, finding out that was a thing was pretty exciting, like there was this whole other dimension to the game ready for me to explore and exploit to make big strides in improving. But if you told me upfront that that was something you had to do to play the game at a high level, that would have been a huge turnoff, maybe enough to keep me from playing in the first place. From what I remember, it's not really an important skill until you're hitting at least $30k consistently.
GaijinPunch wrote:
The bummer about these threads is that they remind you how many people got lives and left us.
If only. I just moved on to other nerdy endeavors. I still lurk here and there but rarely bother posting. Once every year or two I look at my post history and kinda surprise myself at what I deemed post-worthy... "I broke 8 months of silence for that?"