Knuckle Cracker

SmileyCoder is stacked up at work and asked me to pinch-hit for this weeks game.

I grabbed some player names from last week's results (copy/paste from mopa42's scoring program) and liked the results.
The numbers appended to the names must be something to do with the way he imports the data from the site - but made for some really fun looking games.

Enjoy!


Fun with names:



   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
ea34011229312293	Small	Low
florrat1232812328	Medium	Low
Wheatmidge111271221023337	Medium	Medium
ctuna11807116632347	Medium	High
Shawn95368182105693	Large	Medium

A few useful links:
All Tournaments (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=7410.0)
Code Map Scoreboard (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewscores.php)
Tournament Score Tool (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=7477.0)

Thanks for the help Helper. :)

I hope I get time to play some of the maps later this week.

Whoo!! Featured in a code map tournament. Too bad I'm on low complexity XD

Wow! Like florrat, I'm honored to be featured - but why did mine have to have fields? I hate fields!

Quote from: ctuna on December 03, 2012, 06:10:43 PM
but why did mine have to have fields? I hate fields!

Ack!
A pure mistake on my part. In too much of a hurry.
I detest Fields, Phantoms, and Experimentals - but was going for some fun gravity and build directions.

Will play yours next and see how bad those <blanking> Fields are.

Yikes! Looks as though I should have trimmed some numbers off the game name (not to be confused with the Name Game). This chart is just a little wide.

Welcome to "Gu250" - I haven't noticed the name before. Have some fun here.

I will keep updating this post as the week goes on to keep the thread clear of clutter.

@ctuna - the Fields aren't all that bad in your namesake game. I way over-built before starting my attacks and fully expect a sub-10 minute score from the better players.
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Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	Helper	12570	12732	12786	10557	11871	60516	36:14
2	inept_celt	12148	12173	11874		10184	46379
3	Gu250	11939	12087	12126	9950		46102
4	dt42	12301	12247	12770			37318
5	Ronini	12225	12215				24440
6	ctuna	11224	12519				23743
7	rob3k	12376					12376
8	Shawn					10766	10766

Scores recorded at 2012-12-04 09:25:52 forum time.

Results table updated.

8 Players, 22 Scores.
Good activity going on.

So far, the 'Shawn' game is my favorite.

Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

Tempted to work through all 5 before others have a chance to get to them or refine their scores so I can briefly see myself in the top 3.  ;D

This post is for 'rob3k' - Congratulations on your second place standing!
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Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	Helper	12570	12732	12786	10557	11871	60516	36:14
2	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
3	Shawn	12168	12028	12155	9433	10766	56550	69:55
4	inept_celt	12214	12251	11918	8817	10547	55747	82:15
5	Gu250	11939	12087	12126	9950		46102
6	dt42	12301	12247	12770			37318
7	Ronini	12225	12215	12280			36720
8	ctuna	11224	12519				23743
9	ea3401	12593					12593
10	TheSmileyCoder				11207		11207

Scores recorded at 2012-12-04 16:28:53 forum time.

Quote from: gu250 on December 04, 2012, 09:54:15 AM
Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

Keep in mind that we have a whole range of players here - from very strong to very new.
If you need some help/a hint, just ask. One of us will be glad to help.

Quote from: Helper on December 04, 2012, 04:30:01 PM
This post is for 'rob3k' - Congratulations on your second place standing!

Excellent!

/Whopped you all on the 4th map. Tried the first one a few times, and my best score is still 13 seconds from yours. Grrr!

Quote from: SmileyCoder on December 05, 2012, 03:56:43 AM
...and my best score is still 13 seconds from yours. Grrr!

Thanks for making my day.
*SmilingHelper*

Strangely, that was the first game I played this week and just ran through it to post a score - any score. No clue what I did to get it.

Quote from: Helper on December 04, 2012, 04:32:53 PM

Quote from: gu250 on December 04, 2012, 09:54:15 AM
Hi I'm starting to play now, and still do not have much experience, but come on.
Thank you and good luck!

Keep in mind that we have a whole range of players here - from very strong to very new.
If you need some help/a hint, just ask. One of us will be glad to help.

Speaking of being new, I just started playing CW recently, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips to share on how to gracefully deal with situations where you have to deal with a very large amount of creeper overrunning the places where you could possibly place a nullifier. The kinds of situations I'm referring to are the almost 50M strength emitter that was in the Smarties map from the last tournament, and the emitter in the middle of the creeper field in the ctuna map from this week's tournament. With the 50M emitter, it was difficult to bring enough firepower to bear to keep the emitter pulses from destroying my nullifier, and with the creeper field, it's not so much about the strength of the creeper, but that the field keeps sweeping around whatever creeper is in the neighborhood too often to easily get a nullifier built, or even shields up to protect the nullifier. In both cases, I managed to eventually power through using brute force, but I'm sure that there must be some more elegant techniques.

Shawn Asmussen

Quote from: asmussen on December 05, 2012, 06:12:51 PM
Speaking of being new, I just started playing CW recently, and I was wondering if anybody had any tips to share on how to gracefully deal with situations where you have to deal with a very large amount of creeper overrunning the places where you could possibly place a nullifier. The kinds of situations I'm referring to are the almost 50M strength emitter that was in the Smarties map from the last tournament, and the emitter in the middle of the creeper field in the ctuna map from this week's tournament. With the 50M emitter, it was difficult to bring enough firepower to bear to keep the emitter pulses from destroying my nullifier, and with the creeper field, it's not so much about the strength of the creeper, but that the field keeps sweeping around whatever creeper is in the neighborhood too often to easily get a nullifier built, or even shields up to protect the nullifier. In both cases, I managed to eventually power through using brute force, but I'm sure that there must be some more elegant techniques.

Shawn Asmussen

Well, in ctuna you need to note the directionality of the gravity. The emitter is significantly easier to approach from the right cause gravity helps you. When fields are involved, it is usually easiest to try to build shields when field is away from you (A gateway nearby will help it build fast enough, before it gets destroyed, packet speed helps as well). Then move blasters, launchers repulsers a tad closer, build a new line of shields, destroy the old and advance. Once you get close enough, you can build a set of shields that will protect the nullifier long enough.

When dealing with 50m emitters and no experimentals, its important to upgrade fire rate all the way, make sure you have maxed your energy, and build some makers, fully charged. Have a set of repulsors (i.e. more then 1 per build line), and once you have pounded down the creeper around the emitter, you move in the makers, and fire small bursts of anti creeper to help protect the nullifier. It takes a bit of practice to get it right, so make sure you have saved before approaching the emitter, and using all your stored anti-creeper.

59 61 64 67 scores, 15 16 players, 9 11 complete games!

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12606	12771	13030	11310	12256	61973	24:29
2	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
3	Helper	12606	12815	12822	10839	12008	61090	31:33
4	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
5	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
6	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
7	Shawn	12168	12441	12155	10304	11421	58489	51:01
8	Gu250	12452	12469	12148	9950	11123	58142	54:48
9	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
10	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9108	10707	56280	74:45
11	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
12	ctuna	11224	12561	12653		11130	47568
13	mopa42	12441	12733	12721			37895
14	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456			37391
15	Wheatmidge			12801			12801
16	ea3401	12633					12633

Scores recorded at 2012-12-07 18:16:31 forum time.

I think my goal this week will be to catch up to Helper :)

Quote from: deety42 on December 06, 2012, 11:19:20 AM
I think my goal this week will be to catch up to Helper :)

Hah!
You're getting closer every time I look :)

If I get some time, there are a couple of these games I want to take another run at. Fun stuff.

Oh   my  :o

I have been beaten!!!
Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
2	TheSmileyCoder	12535	12771	13030	11207	12256	61799	25:45
3	Helper	12598	12815	12822	10839	12008	61082	31:36
4	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
5	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
6	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
7	Gu250	12452	12469	12148	9950	10927	57946	57:45
8	Shawn	12168	12028	12155	9433	11421	57205	63:26
9	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
10	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9108	10707	56280	74:45
11	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
12	ctuna	11224	12561	12653		11130	47568
13	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456			37391
14	Wheatmidge			12801			12801
15	ea3401	12633					12633

Scores recorded at 2012-12-07 03:55:37 forum time.

The Helper's place is secure, as I have to go out of town for the weekend.  Maybe next week...

So, put myself back in the lead with a measly 2 points. Could it be any closer? :)
Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12606	12771	13030	11310	12256	61973	24:29
2	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
3	Helper	12606	12815	12822	10839	12008	61090	31:33
4	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
5	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
6	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
7	Gu250	12452	12469	12148	9950	11123	58142	54:48
8	Shawn	12168	12028	12155	9807	11421	57579	58:57
9	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
10	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9108	10707	56280	74:45
11	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
12	ctuna	11224	12561	12653		11130	47568
13	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456			37391
14	Wheatmidge			12801			12801
15	ea3401	12633					12633
16	mopa42	12441					12441

Scores recorded at 2012-12-07 17:25:06 forum time.

Quote from: SmileyCoder on December 07, 2012, 05:29:11 PM
So, put myself back in the lead with a measly 2 points. Could it be any closer? :)

Other than the enormouse lead I have in Mission 2 (;)) the games are incredibly close.

I just noticed that mopa42 joined the game, so I'm sure there will be many more changes before Sunday night.

Good stuff!

74 scores, 16 players, 14 complete games!

*UPDATED*

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12606	12771	13030	11310	12256	61973	24:29
2	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
3	Helper	12606	12815	12822	10839	12098	61180	30:50
4	mopa42	12441	12733	12721	11048	12055	60998	31:05
5	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
6	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
7	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456	10334	11732	59457	44:28
8	ctuna	12470	12562	12653	10556	11130	59371	41:38
9	Shawn	12431	12569	12498	10304	11421	59223	45:58
10	Gu250	12452	12645	12532	9953	11413	58995	49:22
11	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
12	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9785	10821	57071	64:58
13	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
14	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
15	ea3401	12633	12889	13072			38594
16	Wheatmidge			12801			12801

Scores recorded at 2012-12-09 15:41:42 forum time.

And ea is getting fantastic scores on the low complexity maps. I'd love to see/hear your tactics after the tournaments.

Quote from: florrat on December 08, 2012, 08:25:03 PM
And ea is getting fantastic scores on the low complexity maps. I'd love to see/hear your tactics after the tournaments.

I think packet speed in general is most important for low complexity maps. That's what I bought first and foremost. The second screenshot wasn't my fastest attempt, but I can't find a better one. The top pool is harmless and shouldn't be attacked until you have undue energy.

Below are the standings as of right now. If someone is still active at midnight forum time, please feel free to post an updated version.

There were some extremely close competition with many players separated from another by mere seconds.

Well done all and see you next week.

EDIT:
If the standings don't change, "florrat" will be putting together next week's game.
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Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12606	12771	13030	11310	12256	61973	24:29
2	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
3	Helper	12606	12815	12822	10839	12098	61180	30:50
4	mopa42	12441	12733	12721	11048	12055	60998	31:05
5	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
6	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
7	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456	10334	11732	59457	44:28
8	ctuna	12470	12562	12653	10556	11130	59371	41:38
9	Shawn	12431	12569	12498	10304	11421	59223	45:58
10	Gu250	12452	12645	12532	9953	11427	59009	49:14
11	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
12	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9785	10821	57071	64:58
13	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
14	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
15	ea3401	12633	12889	13072			38594
16	Wheatmidge			12801			12801

Scores recorded at 2012-12-09 20:17:46 forum time.

Without big changes only to close at midnight, the results:

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	ea34011229312293	florrat1232812328	Wheatmidge111271221023337	ctuna11807116632347	Shawn95368182105693	Total Score	Total Time
1	TheSmileyCoder	12606	12771	13030	11310	12256	61973	24:29
2	florrat	12582	12814	13018	11311	12246	61971	24:36
3	Helper	12606	12815	12822	10839	12098	61180	30:50
4	mopa42	12441	12733	12721	11048	12055	60998	31:05
5	dt42	12389	12739	12770	10716	12020	60634	34:11
6	Atomicfrog	12221	12569	12678	10709	11868	60045	39:06
7	ctuna	12470	12689	12653	10556	11130	59498	41:24
8	Zaggy	12400	12535	12456	10334	11732	59457	44:28
9	Shawn	12431	12569	12498	10304	11421	59223	45:58
10	Gu250	12452	12645	12532	9953	11427	59009	49:14
11	rob3k	12376	12546	12575	10065	11402	58964	49:12
12	inept_celt	12214	12251	12000	9785	10821	57071	64:58
13	Ronini	12225	12215	12280	8654	11255	56629	70:26
14	UoADeadeye	12204	12003	12242	9329	10172	55950	79:01
15	ea3401	12633	12889	13072			38594
16	Wheatmidge			12801			12801

Scores recorded at 2012-12-10 00:00:01 forum time.

"Well done all and see you next week."

@gu250 - Thank you for that final post, but could you get it a little closer to midnight next time? You were a whole second off. LOL!

Seriously, it is great to have someone post the actual results at or about midnight for use as the official results.

@florrat - you're up at bat. Show us your stuff.

Unfortunately I didn't have time this weekend to increase my score anymore, so congratulations TheSmileyCoder!

The new tournament is up: 52. Previous themes (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=12155.0). Thank you for reminding that I have to post the next one, I assumed TheSmileyCoder would have to do it.

Thank you, ea, for explaining your tactics with these screenshots. The biggest differences between our approaches were that I didn't build any reactors and that I built makers instead of blasters.

Since I was #1 at the ctuna map (probably mainly because ea didn't try that one  :-\ ), I'll post some screenshots how I did it.

Quote from: Helper on December 10, 2012, 05:24:33 AM
@gu250 - Thank you for that final post, but could you get it a little closer to midnight next time? You were a whole second off. LOL!

Seriously, it is great to have someone post the actual results at or about midnight for use as the official results.

@florrat - you're up at bat. Show us your stuff.

Thanks I go try next time to take 00:00:00 haha