I was sick and turned of grinding for hundreds of hours on my Adventure Capitalist game, specially on events. I turned to Cheat Engine and discovered that the point counter was stored locally.
Getting Infinite Gold
I found a cheat table online that gave me the tools to hack in gold. I spammed the 5000 gold cheat a bunch of times until I got 100 000 gold. From then, I was able to grind out the event *much* faster and reach the top 10. But that wasn't enough!
Billionaire
I wanted to cheat points in, so I decided to start afresh in a new event. I did a scan on Cheat Engine for the number of points I had- 0, and it found millions of values. I claimed the 60 free points and narrowed my searches to just 5000. I completed my next task, which was trivial since I had enough gold for hundreds of time warps and other assorted cheat tools. I found the memory value.
In my experience, it takes 3 tries to find the memory value and modify it. The memory value changes with every game session, so if my game crashed I would lose everything. I set the point count to 1 000 000 00, or a billion, and won. Nice.
Integers
This worked for a few events, until some people started to get more points than me. I tried to get 3 billion, but it looped back to -2 billion. Weird. I was stuck on 2 billion. This should have been a painfully obvious clue at the time, but the genuine players had beat me there first. I lost and felt ashamed. Until I had an idea- if 2.1 billion was allowed and 2.2 wasn't, then was the maximum the 32-bit integer limit? Surely the 32-bit integer limit was around 2.1 billion, right?
A website confirmed it was 2,147,483,647, so I changed it to that. It worked! However, there were several people who had the same amount of points as me, so I had third place. That was 5 minutes ago, and I left the game happy that I'd cheated. The only 2 games where I don't feel slightly demoralised when cheating are The Sims III and Adventure Capitalist. Not even Minecraft makes me feel shamelessly powerful.
AfterMATH
It turns out people cheating is a massive issue on AdCap. I can't reference a Steam Community post or anything, but it's true.
Apparently this annoys people. Wonder why.
Just a note: Don't just set the value as the 32-bit integer limit since the game will add the number of points after completing the task, which will exceed the 32-bit integer limit and and loop it back to the negative numbers. Set it as the 32-bit integer limit MINUS the points the task gives you. So if the task you need to complete gives 115 points, do 2147483647 - 115.