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Title: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: AutoPost on October 19, 2017, 02:51:33 PM
This topic is for discussion of map #2841: Drone Farmer (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewmaps.php?mapid=2841)
(http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/thumb.php?id=2841) (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewmaps.php?mapid=2841)

Author: Bongo (http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld2/viewmaps.php?author=Bongo)

Desc:
Remake of "Tek34 Drone Wars 02" (#1985) by teknotiss.
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: jengert on October 26, 2017, 10:31:58 PM
can someone give me a hint? I can't get anywhere on this one
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: Karsten75 on October 27, 2017, 02:34:19 AM
Geez. That's a Bongo map. Only 23 people ever submitted a score on it, and non of them I recognize as forum regulars. So here's hoping someone has an idea and posts.

Maybe someone like Yum gets to see this and he may have an idea, or perhaps if you play the map Bongo says this is a remake of you might also get an idea?
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: a on October 27, 2017, 01:56:21 PM
Quote from: jengert on October 26, 2017, 10:31:58 PM
can someone give me a hint? I can't get anywhere on this one

Here you can get a laser at the very beginning. If you create tanks, spending almost all the resources. And quickly hold a blitzkrieg.
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: a on October 27, 2017, 02:05:13 PM
Very cool map. Bongo very much tried to balance it. Thank you. If the emitters had started working 1-1.5 seconds earlier and I would not have had time to take the laser.
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: Bongo on October 27, 2017, 04:29:20 PM
Quote from: jengert on October 26, 2017, 10:31:58 PM
can someone give me a hint? I can't get anywhere on this one

(pic for hint)

Once you start, it's really just a matter of the order you farm the cells and managing your Digging, Building, Energy and Technytes. It's easier to go down the left side with the fields, but better (time wise) to go down the right side to liberate the top Techs sooner. Note: Don't let your (Energy) Crystals go to zero or you can only USE 60 Energy / second.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: GoodMorning on October 27, 2017, 04:43:04 PM
If I understand correctly, the solution here is to burn a lot of that crystal energy to get a Dark Beam immediately. Not having much practice with CW2 flow mechanics, I ask: What is the sufficiently fast method of making a path through that thin Creeper?
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: yum-forum on October 27, 2017, 05:26:33 PM
Cool map (Bickford in CW2!)!!! Thank You!  :)
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: a on October 27, 2017, 06:12:13 PM
I can not figure out how to hide the picture under the spoiler. Excuse me.

Spoiler
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Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: Karsten75 on October 28, 2017, 01:28:38 AM
Quote from: Bongo on October 27, 2017, 04:29:20 PM
Quote from: jengert on October 26, 2017, 10:31:58 PM
can someone give me a hint? I can't get anywhere on this one

(pic for hint)

Once you start, it's really just a matter of the order you farm the cells and managing your Digging, Building, Energy and Technytes. It's easier to go down the left side with the fields, but better (time wise) to go down the right side to liberate the top Techs sooner. Note: Don't let your (Energy) Crystals go to zero or you can only USE 60 Energy / second.

Good luck!

Wow. You can dig that much in 1:49? I have something to learn, I guess.
Title: Re: Custom Map #2841: Drone Farmer
Post by: GoodMorning on October 28, 2017, 02:48:16 AM
You start with some hundreds of crystal energy. I looked at the same image and deplored the wasted space.