Custom Map #71: Turncoat. By: Tau

AutoPost · January 06, 2014, 11:41:24 PM

This topic is for discussion of map #71: Turncoat

Author: Tau
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An old, abandoned C / AC Battle Arena. Can you conquer all Emitter, or will you get overrun? (Flip Emitter CPRL script created by Flabort) #Easy #CPRL #FlipEmitter #Tau

Flabort · January 07, 2014, 01:39:37 AM

Hey, that's my script! :P

Thanks for using it. ;D This was a fun map, a tad difficult to start, but a great play.

Tau · January 07, 2014, 04:10:32 AM

Quote from: Flabort on January 07, 2014, 01:39:37 AM
Hey, that's my script! :P

Thanks for using it. ;D This was a fun map, a tad difficult to start, but a great play.

Thanks!
I was worried, that the Map may be to easy, so i am a bit surprised of the mention of a difficult start. ;D

And thanks for the script! I really liked the idea of the Flip Emitter, so maybe i will make some more Maps with it. :)

Flabort · January 07, 2014, 08:50:26 PM

Eh. Basically any script I manage to make, feel free to run with it.
Also, I'm not a very strong or aggressive player. I was being overwhelmed by creeper and worried that I'd be at risk of losing all AC emitters by the time I got my first Bertha up.

Cohiba · January 09, 2014, 02:32:55 PM

It was fun if you had allowed bombers then yes the map would have been too easy. I secured the courtyard first before even building my first bertha and had straffers patrolling the wall which helped to. terped the wall flat so i could put mortars and cannons on it, had my base secure and then started building berthas and attacking the rest of the map. Though it was fun to fill up 5 sprayers surround an emitter to flip it, then fly the sprayers back to get refilled helped capture some of the highground emitters.

sentix · January 12, 2014, 01:08:59 AM

Perhaps I am missing something or glitched out ( I started, paused, came back ~4 hours later to finish ) but no mission success. Screen shot shows me trying to level the entire map to one while flooding it ~10-15 AC deep.

http://imgur.com/RQzyrzf ( deleted initial upload as it had a IM chat overlaid on it ).

Flabort · January 12, 2014, 01:58:20 AM

It's possible that the larger emitter does not use the same code as the rest. I don't know, I didn't make the map, just the script.
If that's the case, you would have to nullify that one to win. Er... I forget, were nullifies disabled?

Tau · January 12, 2014, 04:50:13 AM

Quote from: sentix on January 12, 2014, 01:08:59 AM
Perhaps I am missing something or glitched out ( I started, paused, came back ~4 hours later to finish ) but no mission success. Screen shot shows me trying to level the entire map to one while flooding it ~10-15 AC deep.

http://imgur.com/RQzyrzf ( deleted initial upload as it had a IM chat overlaid on it ).

That's strange! I'm sorry, that it didn't worked for you.

Did you already try a simple save & load?
Normally the Map should be won, when the last Emitter flipped (doesn't/shouldn't matter which one the last one is).

Maybe someone with a better knowledge of CPRL can have a look at the script to see where it could glitch.
CPRL is so different to all programming languages i know, that i couldn't get really warm with it yet. :-\

@Flabort
No, the large Emitter uses the exact same script as the other ones (aka your script). I changed nothing there.
And yes, nullifier are disabled! ;)

eduran · January 12, 2014, 06:16:09 AM

I don't see a way how the script could fail to award a win in the end.
@sentix: Is it possible you overlooked an emitter? Or that you accidentally closed the victory screen without noticing? You can check that by leaving the map, if you can submit a score you won. If it's neither of these two, could you please post your savegame?

sentix · January 12, 2014, 12:34:51 PM

Went back into the save and I must have missed the "You won" dialog as I was able to exit and go to the submit score dialog.

Martoon · January 22, 2014, 11:15:35 PM

Brilliant map! Nice work.

Tau · January 23, 2014, 05:42:00 AM

Quote from: Martoon on January 22, 2014, 11:15:35 PM
Brilliant map! Nice work.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :)

Setari · April 28, 2014, 03:48:44 PM

I wasn't able to figure out how to get more AC Am I supposed to shove it around with shields or something?

It's a nice concept but I feel like the emitters needed more AC push.

teknotiss · April 28, 2014, 05:18:21 PM

Quote from: Setari on April 28, 2014, 03:48:44 PM
I wasn't able to figure out how to get more AC Am I supposed to shove it around with shields or something?

It's a nice concept but I feel like the emitters needed more AC push.

i barely remember this one, so i can't give you direct advice, but have you tried messing with the "collection field" and "dispatch excess AC" options on the sprayers? :)

Asbestos · April 28, 2014, 07:24:29 PM

Quote from: Setari on April 28, 2014, 03:48:44 PM
I wasn't able to figure out how to get more AC Am I supposed to shove it around with shields or something?

It's a nice concept but I feel like the emitters needed more AC push.

The collection field option on a sprayer allows a sprayer to attract AC and store it in the sprayer. The dispatch excess option causes all AC collected by the sprayer to be sent back to a CN as ore.