Knuckle Cracker

I've really enjoyed reading the blog and finding out more about CW3, so I thought I would offer a little 'thank you' to those who are building and testing the new game.

A few useful links:
All Tournaments (wiki) (http://knucklecracker.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cw2:weekly_5_map_tournament)
Code Map Scoreboard (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewscores.php)
Tournament Score Tool (http://knucklecracker.com/forums/index.php?topic=7477.0)

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Creeper World 3 Blog Entries


   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
Bridge to Oblivion	Large	Medium
Normandy in Space	Medium	Medium
Video Games are Dead!	Small	High
Creeper in the Wind	Medium	High
Roma Victor	Small	Medium

I think Roma Victor is gonna take me all week.

Quote from: Ultraexactzz on June 18, 2013, 05:26:58 PM
I think Roma Victor is gonna take me all week.

Yeah, I thought so too.  I'll post a scoreboard tonight but take heart that there have already been three completions of it so far.

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Bridge to Oblivion	Normandy in Space	Video Games are Dead!	Creeper in the Wind	Roma Victor	Total Score	Total Time
1	dt42	12255	11927	12312	10690	11156	58340	41:33
2	asmussen	12244	11911	12142	10540	11191	58028	46:04
3	Ultraexactzz	11229	10463	10609	9547	9843	51691	104:46
4	dhc	10845	10027	10327	8920	10266	50385	120:25
5	DougB	11861	11649	11585	9805		44900
6	inept_celt	11162	10177	11119	9655		42113
7	MizInIA	11157	9709	11093	9365		41324
8	Anarchy Ape	10594	10359	10330	9160		40443
9	ctuna	11976	11582			11811	35369
10	sept1973	11376		10951	9649		31976
11	theo	10849	10246	9938			31033
12	Atomicfrog	12430		12263			24693
13	ea3401	11734				12106	23840
14	Wheatmidge					12145	12145

Scores recorded at 2013-06-21 02:18:16 forum time.

Someone submitted a score under my name.  ???

Quote from: ea3401 on June 21, 2013, 07:59:37 AM
Someone submitted a score under my name.  ???

I was kind of wondering about that. Your score on Bridge to Oblivion seemed kind of low for you...  ???

Roma Victor has sooooo many drones......  I can't even get last longer than a couple minutes

With 48 hours to go...

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Bridge to Oblivion	Normandy in Space	Video Games are Dead!	Creeper in the Wind	Roma Victor	Total Score	Total Time
1	dt42	12255	11927	12312	10690	11156	58340	41:33
2	asmussen	12244	11911	12142	10540	11191	58028	46:04
3	ea3401	11734	10972	11080	9588	12106	55480	68:07
4	Ultraexactzz	11229	10463	10609	9547	9843	51691	104:46
5	dhc	10845	10027	10327	8920	10266	50385	120:25
6	mopa42	12390	12211	12527	10746		47874
7	DougB	11861	11649	11585	9805		44900
8	inept_celt	11162	10177	11119	9655		42113
9	MizInIA	11157	9709	11093	9365		41324
10	Anarchy Ape	11039	10359	10330	9407		41135
11	ctuna	11976	11582			11811	35369
12	sept1973	11376		10951	9649		31976
13	theo	10849	10246	9938			31033
14	Atomicfrog	12430		12263			24693
15	Wheatmidge					12145	12145

Scores recorded at 2013-06-22 00:01:27 forum time.

I'm not really sure what the point of somebody submitting a bunch of middle of the road scores under ea3401's name was...

Virgil is out of town or we could delete the scores. It may be simplest if ea3401 play them and post his usual stellar scores, thus removing the erroneous record?

I only played "Roma Victor", but it's no trouble to me.

There is also a faked Kithros-score for story mission Day 2.

Those are decent scores, too. Is that a usual thing?

No, it's very unusual. It also doesn't make any sense.

And we have a new leader coming into the home stretch...

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Bridge to Oblivion	Normandy in Space	Video Games are Dead!	Creeper in the Wind	Roma Victor	Total Score	Total Time
1	mopa42	12390	12211	12527	10746	11770	59644	33:27
2	dt42	12255	11927	12312	10690	11156	58340	41:33
3	asmussen	12244	11911	12142	10540	11191	58028	46:04
4	ea3401	11734	10972	11080	9588	12106	55480	68:07
5	Ultraexactzz	11229	10463	10609	9547	9843	51691	104:46
6	dhc	10845	10027	10327	8920	10266	50385	120:25
7	DougB	11861	11649	11585	9805		44900
8	inept_celt	11162	10177	11119	9655		42113
9	MizInIA	11157	9709	11093	9365		41324
10	Anarchy Ape	11039	10359	10330	9407		41135
11	theo	10849	10246	9938	9791		40824
12	ctuna	11976	11582			11811	35369
13	sept1973	11376		10951	9649		31976
14	Atomicfrog	12430		12263			24693
15	Wheatmidge					12145	12145

Scores recorded at 2013-06-23 00:17:41 forum time.

Stay tuned to see if anyone breaks 60000 points this week.

Congratulations mopa42

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Bridge to Oblivion	Normandy in Space	Video Games are Dead!	Creeper in the Wind	Roma Victor	Total Score	Total Time
1	mopa42	12390	12211	12527	10746	11770	59644	33:27
2	dt42	12255	11927	12312	10690	11156	58340	41:33
3	asmussen	12244	11911	12142	10540	11191	58028	46:04
4	ea3401	11734	10972	11080	9588	12106	55480	68:07
5	Ultraexactzz	11229	10463	10609	9547	9843	51691	104:46
6	dhc	10845	10027	10327	8920	10266	50385	120:25
7	DougB	11861	11649	11585	9805		44900
8	inept_celt	11162	10177	11119	9655		42113
9	MizInIA	11157	9709	11093	9365		41324
10	Anarchy Ape	11039	10359	10330	9407		41135
11	theo	10849	10246	9938	9791		40824
12	ctuna	11976	11582			11811	35369
13	sept1973	11376		10951	9649		31976
14	Atomicfrog	12430		12263			24693
15	Wheatmidge					12145	12145

Scores recorded at 2013-06-24 00:01:26 forum time.

Now that the tournament is over, would someone be willing to post a strategy for 'Roma Victor'.  I must have restarted that level 30+ times, tried several different strategies and none of them worked.

I could handle the first group of drones, the 2nd one opening and the phantom waves.  I always got overrun when the 3rd chamber opened up and that group of drones came at me.

How do you deal with that many drones?

I'd be happy with any insight, from a general strategy, to a walkthrough, screenshots or even a video.

I should have a set of maps picked out by the end of the day.

I've got a couple of screen shots from Roma Victor. I set up an initial defense with shields, invested in energy, then built a blaster to take care of the drones from the left. Right before each release of new drones, I disconnected everything and used the energy to build shields. After the last drone rush I had just two blasters left of my four, but I had survived.
Unfortunately these screenshots don't show the in-between bits very much.

Edit - I'll add that I had by no means the fastest time, but I felt pretty safe for most of the attack.

Another alternative, similar to mopa's, is to continue the initial shield defense for a little longer and collect the other available gems and technology upgrades before moving to the right and building up your economy.

I managed to keep the first hole capped with shields (barely) long enough to get what I needed to build and supply an AC maker and it did most of the work from there.

Step1: Pick up the gems and open all chambers.

Step2: Kill the Emitter. Don't build anything until every drone and phantom has aimed the LS.

Step3: Kill the Gateway. Continue drone evasion while clearing the creeper.

Thanks for the tips and strategies, I actually did it a couple times how asmussen suggested, but never survived.  I also did the way mopa suggested, but clearly didn't execute properly.  I'll try again when I get home from work.

Quote from: dlbushman on June 24, 2013, 04:17:18 PM
Thanks for the tips and strategies, I actually did it a couple times how asmussen suggested, but never survived.  I also did the way mopa suggested, but clearly didn't execute properly.  I'll try again when I get home from work.

One thing to keep in mind is that once you survive the initial breakout of a section of drones, it's usually not that hard to keep up with the drones as they come out one at a time. You can largely handle a lot of breakouts just by building some extra shields, and have a relatively small number of blasters. For example, I only had 3 blasters built when the upper left drones broke out of their chamber, but I built several extra shields on the path that the drones would come across, just before they were ready to break out, so that most of them were destroyed ramming the shields. Takes much less energy to setup than trying to build enough blasters to shoot down all of the drones from an outbreak.

I feel like throwing in my 2 cents on strategy this time :)

I blocked off the right chamber with shields and grabbed the gems. I then immediately started building reactors and used shields as well as 2 blasters to prevent the right chamber from leaking out. And then I just built up and brute forced everything.

Haven't seen this type of discussion in a while.  Nice to see the different approaches that were taken.  I initially regretted selecting this map but it turns out to have been one of the more interesting ones lately.

Unsuccessful in some of the other missions, I managed this one ok. I used a modified ea3401's "step 1" to block the first gap with shields, 1 repulsor and a 2 blasters, then grabbed the left-side red & 1 green gems and 2 nano-chips & retreated to the right. I knocked off enough terrain to dig down to the white gem and kill the upper right emitter, using a line of shields and a couple more blasters for protection from the surge of drones (I can never seem to accurately predict all the drones' path with shields alone) and built reactors. It got easier from there with a maker to flood the area and more digging and reactors. Sorry I didn't have pics. I wish I had thought of dhc's use of the maker early enough to flood the upper chamber, weakening the drones. Maybe next time. Nice job, all.