Custom Map #3241: AC power!. By: Johnny Haywire

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Author: Johnny Haywire
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Long & difficult AC battle! (About an hour.) The Loki have reincarnated and destroyed your singularity weapon. NOW what are you going to do? Need help? Check the forum! Can't read? I have PICTURES! Can't see? Then... I dunno. #AC #Only creeper - no spores, digi, etc. #Learn how to use AC or die #TONS of help - see spoiler in forum

[Johnny Haywire]

ARRRRGH! I just realized all the dialogue is under "Archived Transmissions". Please forgive me - I'm still kinda new at this, and it worked on the computer before I uploaded it. If anyone knows why that happens, please let me know. Thanks!

Oh, and click on "Archived Transmissions" in the previous map if you didn't already.

OK, I'm anticipating some people having difficulty with this one and I want to be proactive & helpful for anyone who might be having difficulty with this one. I'm sure someone can and will beat my time, so keep in mind the times I have posted below are just there to give everyone a sense of how long stuff should take.

If you really don't want to have to figure this out on your own, or you're just stuck... here are some hints:

Spoiler

1) Focus solely on a strong powergrid for at least the first three minutes. This will help you build all your mines & sprayers faster.

2) At first, make sure that ALL sprayers are set to "always on"
   -You can sellect all sprayers by clicking on one then pressing the letter "o".

3) IMPORTANT - Make sure you increase your AC *capacity* as well as production. At the rate you'll be taking in ore, the
CN's tank won't be big enough to hold it all. Increasing capacity helps efficiency.

4) You should be done building your entire base by about 10 minutes into the game. Start upgrading everything except move speed and power stuff. You should be done with power needs by now.

5) The "bottleneck" is NOT going to be GETTING your AC. The challenge is to RELEASE it fast enough. So build sprayers anywhere you can and set them to "always on". (see #2)

7) By 20 minutes or so, AC should be pouring out from your base. At this point, feel free to go grab some chips or snacks and
let it run for a few minutes. If you want to go faster, use the sprayers as bombers. That's if you REALLY feel like working. =)

8 ) Soon you will have enough of a forward push that you'll want to pull AC from the back lines and move them to the
front lines. Get some sprayers in your base set to "dispatch excess AC as ore". This will help the supply of your front
lines

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Need visuals? Hey, we even have PICTURES!
10 minutes -

Spoiler

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15 minutes -

Spoiler

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23 minutes -

Spoiler

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50 minutes - ready to wipe that smile off the map!

Spoiler

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56 minutes - final attack

Spoiler

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ARRRRGH! I just realized all the dialogue is under "Archived Transmissions". Please forgive me - I'm still kinda new at this, and it worked on the computer before I uploaded it. If anyone knows why that happens, please let me know. Thanks!

The first time you play a map, the dialogue is shown at the start, and can be viewed later under archived transmissions. On replays, the dialogue is only shown in archived transmissions, which stops it getting tedious if you have to do a lot of restarts.

[Asbestos]

Everyone besides you will see the dialogue perfectly normally, don't worry.

[D0m0nik]

Long hard battle! You can speed it up slightly by rotating sprayers on the CNs that are out of reach but it is still slow work.

This is the ultimate AC battle! Not everyones cup of tea but still a different kind of map.

[Johnny Haywire]

Ah, thx for the dialogue info - that's good to know. Such a newbie *points at self*.

And to Dom's point, yeah. This isn't my fav kind of map either. But I dunno how to make my favorite maps, so I just made this one instead. LOL.

[RealAndy]

5 thumbs up for this one.

[Johnny Haywire]

Wow! Thanks, Andy!  ;D

[nottootricky]

Neat map! Nice to try something different and taught me loads, love the spray bombing technique! Never knew pz-collectors had longer connection range to weapons than pz-relays...