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Farsite Colonies / Custom Map #4960: Reclemation ...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 12:38:02 PMThis topic is for discussion of map #4960: Reclemation Protocol 3
Author: The MOOOOOON
Size: 192x120
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#2
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Custom Map #11127: Spore Survi...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 11:33:13 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #11127: Spore Survival
Author: Leristian
Size: 90x90
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This is a spore rain. Good luck
Author: Leristian
Size: 90x90
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This is a spore rain. Good luck
#3
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Custom Map #11126: CSM AC mult...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 08:47:33 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #11126: CSM AC multi set B-4
Author: builder17
Size: 144x72
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Tiny Creeper: 1 terrain height = 10 creeper Click the Help Bar on the left side for help on that topic. Or just move your mouse over the icons to find the objects of that kind. #CSM #MultiSet
Author: builder17
Size: 144x72
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Tiny Creeper: 1 terrain height = 10 creeper Click the Help Bar on the left side for help on that topic. Or just move your mouse over the icons to find the objects of that kind. #CSM #MultiSet
#4
Farsite Colonies / Custom Map #4959: Reclemation ...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 08:11:07 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #4959: Reclemation Protocol 2
Author: The MOOOOOON
Size: 192x120
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Author: The MOOOOOON
Size: 192x120
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#5
Farsite Colonies / Custom Map #4958: Reclemation ...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 02:00:05 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #4958: Reclemation Protocal
Author: The MOOOOOON
Size: 192x120
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Author: The MOOOOOON
Size: 192x120
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#6
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Custom Map #11125: Double Edge...
Last post by AutoPost - Today at 12:38:15 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #11125: Double Edged Sword
Author: Drunkpapa148
Size: 256x84
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Sometimes when you destroy an emitter, it does not go quietly into that good night... Take your time, build some defenses, there are a few nasty surprises.
Author: Drunkpapa148
Size: 256x84
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Sometimes when you destroy an emitter, it does not go quietly into that good night... Take your time, build some defenses, there are a few nasty surprises.
#7
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Re: Custom Map #11124: Hard st...
Last post by D0m0nik - April 27, 2024, 04:03:45 PMI gave this 3/10. 2 points for humour 1 point for gameplay!
#8
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Re: Custom Map #10973: Childis...
Last post by toolforger - April 27, 2024, 02:11:24 PMI see absolutely no way to cracking this.
I can get the initial breakout from the island.
It's pretty difficult, mostly due to the insane rebuild rate compared to the spores' reload rates, but it's doable. Just avoid any tiny mistake, but yeah.
But then?
A spore on the forge outpost would kill the entire defense almost immediately - no more energy, the forge would fall and remove the insane upgrades.
But I'm not getting anywhere.
The first bunch of island is hard, really hard. You can't afford a single mistake, keeping two nullifiers with an insane build rate from firing and destroying your only emitter is hard. It's not a lot of fun, but it's doable.
Cleaning up the bottom-left quarter of the map is straightforward.
The rest should be straightforward, but the beam in the bottom-left corner of the top-right fortress kills any spore I send in. Even if I try and use the bottom-most PZ position available.
Killing relays is useless as they rebuild faster than the next spore cycle gets ready.
Damaging cannons is useless as the repairy faster than the next spore cycle gets ready.
Sending a second spore is useless as there is no good second PZ available, the spore will either get shot down or land in a place that gives the cannons far too much time to kill the creep before it goes anywhere useful.
A slow push with void digitalis is useless as the cannons will just clean it up.
You can get pretty close to the two-cannon position, but you can't quite reach it, even with tricks like distracting it with digitalis around it and pushing creeper around with the field.
And even if it worked, the five-cannon position isn't even close to being attackable that way.
And to add insult to injury: The AC will overflow after half an hour, killing all hope of ever amassing enough creeper to achieve anything anywhere; you'll have spent half and hour of your lifetime trying out approaches, and if you don't find the magic trick in that time, it's back to square one.
It's almost as if it's intentionally designed to frustrate the players.
I seriously doubt that any of the three successful scores are legit.
Your own score may be, but I suspect this is one of the cases where the game save was not 100% faithful and your playtest (and the score) were done with a much easier level. Maybe the forge is giving the beams a bit more range or firepower than what could be seen in playtesting.
Of course, there could also be some trick I didn't see.
I have no idea what that trick could be. I tried everything.
I can get the initial breakout from the island.
It's pretty difficult, mostly due to the insane rebuild rate compared to the spores' reload rates, but it's doable. Just avoid any tiny mistake, but yeah.
But then?
A spore on the forge outpost would kill the entire defense almost immediately - no more energy, the forge would fall and remove the insane upgrades.
But I'm not getting anywhere.
The first bunch of island is hard, really hard. You can't afford a single mistake, keeping two nullifiers with an insane build rate from firing and destroying your only emitter is hard. It's not a lot of fun, but it's doable.
Cleaning up the bottom-left quarter of the map is straightforward.
The rest should be straightforward, but the beam in the bottom-left corner of the top-right fortress kills any spore I send in. Even if I try and use the bottom-most PZ position available.
Killing relays is useless as they rebuild faster than the next spore cycle gets ready.
Damaging cannons is useless as the repairy faster than the next spore cycle gets ready.
Sending a second spore is useless as there is no good second PZ available, the spore will either get shot down or land in a place that gives the cannons far too much time to kill the creep before it goes anywhere useful.
A slow push with void digitalis is useless as the cannons will just clean it up.
You can get pretty close to the two-cannon position, but you can't quite reach it, even with tricks like distracting it with digitalis around it and pushing creeper around with the field.
And even if it worked, the five-cannon position isn't even close to being attackable that way.
And to add insult to injury: The AC will overflow after half an hour, killing all hope of ever amassing enough creeper to achieve anything anywhere; you'll have spent half and hour of your lifetime trying out approaches, and if you don't find the magic trick in that time, it's back to square one.
It's almost as if it's intentionally designed to frustrate the players.
I seriously doubt that any of the three successful scores are legit.
Your own score may be, but I suspect this is one of the cases where the game save was not 100% faithful and your playtest (and the score) were done with a much easier level. Maybe the forge is giving the beams a bit more range or firepower than what could be seen in playtesting.
Of course, there could also be some trick I didn't see.
I have no idea what that trick could be. I tried everything.
#9
Colonial Space Map Discussion / Re: Custom Map #10973: Childis...
Last post by toolforger - April 27, 2024, 12:53:10 PMNot knowing is the exact opposite of gold.
#10
Farsite Colonies / Custom Map #4957: King of the ...
Last post by AutoPost - April 27, 2024, 09:45:42 AMThis topic is for discussion of map #4957: King of the hill
Author: stranger
Size: 320x200
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Author: stranger
Size: 320x200
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