Custom Map: Big Red's Maze

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This topic is for discussion of map: Big Red's Maze


Author: Big Red45

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Combines a variety of techniques: maze, cap emitters with blaster, cap emitters in pool with mortar, and spores. You will have a long time before you have to worry about spores but by the fourth wave they are intense and you will need many SAM's.

[Overbyte]

That became intense.. It should have been shorter for me, but going down the last isle to get the totem, a spore got through and knocked my grid out.. :o
Knocked be back to the beginning of the maze, but I fought back and got it.. Could have restarted, but by then, it was the principal of it..

[tpatana]

First time about 11 minutes, second try was much better as I figured several ways to improve. I think it could be possible to push beyond 8 minutes, but not by much.

[CtopherMI]

First try I was pretty close to 8 minutes, but there were a couple times that I failed to optimize things, and once I accidentally disconnected over half the chain and didn't notice it for several seconds.  I'm going to try again to see if I can get a bit faster :)

[tpatana]

Argh, you made me try it again, damn you. Too much juggling, but now the time is hard to beat. I think if I use same strategy, with optimal juggling (=no mistakes) I might get close to 6 minutes. Now I lost the link couple of times.

[Pjard]

How the heck do you do this in less than 20 minutes?  There must be one move i am missing....

[fractalman]

the easy way to do it in less than 20 minutes: instead of trying to build a chain of collectors, make a chain of blaster-collector-blaster-collector where possible.  since you can build the blaster anywhere and move it into position, this will cut the time to build in half. 

to get an insanely low time: have a blaster/mortar fly over a wall, so the connection can jump over the walls.  may also cause intense lag.