Knuckle Cracker

This week's theme includes all of the live action Star Trek series. (Some spaces added to series names for the sake of interesting maps)

Interesting fact: Once I'd finished picking the maps, I arranged them in order of complexity. After doing so I noticed that it also happens to be the chronological order of the series. (According to the years they take place during, not air date) :)

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)

Theme:
Star Trek series



   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
Star Trek: Enterprise	Small	Low
Star Trek:  The Original Series	Small	Medium
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Medium	Medium
Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine	Small	High
Star Trek: Voyager	Medium	High

Final Results:

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Star Trek: Enterprise	Star Trek:  The Original Series	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine	Star Trek: Voyager	Total Score	Total Time
1	asmussen	11688	12126	11646	12482	10609	58551	25:41
2	ctuna	11408	11996	11750	12373	10544	58071	29:02
3	Zaggy	11527	12023	11334	12273	10520	57677	31:17
4	dt42	11473	11988	11282	12270	10242	57255	34:37
5	cleatoma	11701	11986	10161	12412	9057	55317	54:41
6	Marley	11240	11524	9603	11853	9464	53684	65:45
7	JF-T	10862	11230	9794	11575	9255	52716	64:53
8	Benabik	10542	10688	9852	10861	9513	51456	68:28
9	dhc	10808	10875	9710	11214	7881	50488	100:50
10	Eketek	426	326	286	512	527	2077	7342:13
11	ea3401	11759	12444	11868	12599		48670
12	inept_celt	11407	11276		11472	9052	43207
13	MizInIA	11150		9441	11719	8960	41270
14	Atomicfrog				12343	10769	23112
15	E. Morse	11328	11577				22905
16	Beder	11565	11238				22803

Scores recorded at 2013-09-09 02:09:20 forum time.

Eketek,

How on earth did you manage to post a 1077 minute time on the last map? That's more time than has even elapsed since I posted the tournament! lol

According to the Intractable Laws of Sensibility, I must have determined which of the maps you would select at a time which potentiated my score.

he used 2x speed.

'Star Trek: The Next Generation' is really tough.  I couldn't find an easy way to beat it.  I was lucky I was able to beat it at all!  After this week, someone has to let me know how they did it.

All 5 maps were fun.  Nice choices.

The white gem gives you enough energy to build up a defence. Use shields against the early drones while digging for more gems. Then 2 phantom coils, nullify top emitter, nullify gateway, and so on ...

That's pretty much the same strategy I used as well. If you do it efficiently enough, you can have the top emitter and gateway destroyed before the second creeper area breaks through, and you can have enough blasters waiting to take care of the drone rush. After that it's just mop up.

I haven't had a chance to play in a while, but I saw this Tournament and had to comment.... what about Star Trek the animated series.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069637/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Where's the love!?

Quote from: Wheatmidge on September 06, 2013, 01:42:16 AM
I haven't had a chance to play in a while, but I saw this Tournament and had to comment.... what about Star Trek the animated series.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069637/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Where's the love!?

Well, the standard weekly tournament format only allows for 5 maps, so I limited it to the live action series only. If the weekly tournament were 6 maps, I'd have included it for sure! :)

YEah TNG is the only one I haven't beaten or coming close to it, that's a neat startegy, i imagine at first you'd do some drone dodging or something. I'll probly find a way to beat it though.

Quote from: JF-T on September 06, 2013, 11:47:07 AM
YEah TNG is the only one I haven't beaten or coming close to it, that's a neat startegy, i imagine at first you'd do some drone dodging or something. I'll probly find a way to beat it though.

Drone dodging isn't necessary for this one. You just use shields to handle the drones until you have collected crystal energy and can get a blaster going.

I finally got the map done. after 20 minutes xD
I kinda had to do some drone dodging as after getting hte crystal i started to build 4 blasters right away. I slowly got more of a foothold from there :)
Was super fun, feel great now!

As ctuna picked the previous tournament, by the weekly tournament rules that means that the next tournament is yours to run if you want it, Zaggy!

Quote from: asmussen on September 09, 2013, 03:19:06 AM
As ctuna picked the previous tournament, by the weekly tournament rules that means that the next tournament is yours to run if you want it, Zaggy!

That was sneaky to not post the final results at the end of the thread, but instead replacing the earliest score table in the thread...

That's why I also posted the message at the end of the thread, designating the next tournament runner so that the thread would show up as having new activity.

Hooray!  Alright, I'm working on the next week's tournament map names.  The theme will be 5 NFL teams with their records for last year.  I'll post a new topic soon.