Weekly 5-Map Tournament – Chill Out, Bro - closing 02 Mar 2013

[Helper]

One day to go and Lo_Fa is the class of the current field.

Muchas gracias to Kithros for that great advice. I tried it and it worked.

Saturday - 13 Players, 62 Scores

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	It's only a game	Lighten up!	Give it a rest!	Wrapped around the axle.	Hit the road Jack	Total Score	Total Time
1	Lord_Farin	11812	12752	12312	10708	12427	60011	25:32
2	Helper	11748	12810	12277	10747	12408	59990	25:37
3	mopa42	11811	12829	12240	10706	12326	59912	26:17
4	dt42	11754	12615	12102	10151	12064	58686	35:56
5	asmussen	11758	12656	11994	9876	12001	58285	39:36
6	Gu250	11599	12446	12068	9730	11899	57742	43:55
7	Dagobert	11734	12592	11851	9204	11916	57297	49:26
8	inept_celt	11517	12403	11578	8756	11186	55440	66:35
9	Ronini	11559	12187	11182	9168	10915	55011	68:30
10	Cinth	11704	12281	11223	8263	11283	54754	75:43
11	MizInIA	11414	12066	10953	8287	10996	53716	83:27
12	teknotiss	10379	12107	11242		11124	44852
13	Iqbal	11680	12230	11831			35741

Scores recorded at 2013-03-02 14:22:11 forum time.

[Lord_Farin]

Congrats Helper on beating my time on the fourth, L/H map. Consequently, I've taken another chunk off your time on the third map :).

Having played all maps twice now, I think my contribution has ended (also, having crossed 60k is a satisfying enough achievement). Can't be bothered to slog through them yet again - although I might be tempted into another go at #2.

[Helper]

Lord_Farin - thanks for the kind words. I owe a very large 'domo arigato' to Kithros for his excellent advice.
The new games submitted queue has been empty for a couple of days and I had some time on my hands.

Not sure what gives with that third game. I thought I could shave some time off earlier today and can't even get close to the time I already posted.

I've got a hunch the mopa-man isn't finished yet.

Film at eleven.

[deety42]

Thanks for all the excellent advice.  I'm realizing that I think my big problem is in the end-game--attacking and cleaning up creeper always takes me a lot longer than I think it should.  But, I'm going to go back and try a few with all this advice in mind...

[Cinth]

Thanks for all the tips :)

I was able to cut my overall down some more and even a top 3 score (as of this post anyway).

Once my strategy parts get honed in a bit better, I should be able to get into the neighborhood of the top 5 overall...

That's the goal anyway.

[Helper]

Sunday - 14 Players, 63 Scores


The advice posted helped out with a lot of games. I see that Cinth knocked over 20 minutes off total score and I improved almost 2 minutes! Very nice.

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	It's only a game	Lighten up!	Give it a rest!	Wrapped around the axle.	Hit the road Jack	Total Score	Total Time
1	Lord_Farin	11812	12752	12312	10708	12427	60011	25:32
2	Helper	11748	12810	12277	10747	12408	59990	25:37
3	mopa42	11811	12829	12240	10706	12363	59949	26:00
4	dt42	11754	12615	12102	10151	12064	58686	35:56
5	asmussen	11758	12656	11994	9876	12001	58285	39:36
6	Gu250	11599	12446	12068	9730	11899	57742	43:55
7	Dagobert	11734	12592	11851	9204	11916	57297	49:26
8	Cinth	11792	12281	11586	9514	11465	56638	53:31
9	inept_celt	11517	12403	11578	8756	11186	55440	66:35
10	Ronini	11559	12187	11182	9168	10915	55011	68:30
11	MizInIA	11414	12066	10953	8287	10996	53716	83:27
12	teknotiss	10379	12107	11242		11124	44852
13	Iqbal	11680	12230	11831			35741

Scores recorded at 2013-03-03 05:19:12 forum time.

[Cinth]

Thanks :)

Still  looking for ~15 more minutes to shave off.  Then I'll be happy.

[SmileyCoder]

I think it was Wheatmidge (I could be wrong, but someone who regularly posts great scores) who said that he doesn't even play on slow speed.

I can only speak for myself in saying that when I play, I play on fast speed, but pause alot. The pause is mainly about issuing orders without something else going wrong at the same time.

[Helper]

Lord_Farin is in the driver's seat for this week's game.

Thank you to all who played and contributed. A fun week.

Final Results - 15 Players, 64 Scores

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	It's only a game	Lighten up!	Give it a rest!	Wrapped around the axle.	Hit the road Jack	Total Score	Total Time
1	Helper	11818	12810	12277	10747	12408	60060	25:10
2	Lord_Farin	11812	12752	12312	10708	12427	60011	25:32
3	mopa42	11811	12829	12240	10706	12363	59949	26:00
4	dt42	11754	12621	12102	10151	12137	58765	35:20
5	asmussen	11758	12656	11994	9876	12001	58285	39:36
6	Gu250	11599	12446	12068	9730	11899	57742	43:55
7	Dagobert	11734	12592	11851	9204	11916	57297	49:26
8	Cinth	11792	12281	11586	9514	11650	56823	51:54
9	inept_celt	11517	12403	11578	8756	11186	55440	66:35
10	Ronini	11559	12187	11182	9168	10915	55011	68:30
11	MizInIA	11414	12066	10953	8287	10996	53716	83:27
12	teknotiss	10379	12107	11242		11124	44852
13	Iqbal	11680	12230	11831			35741
14	ctuna	11815					11815
15	Wheatmidge				10080		10080

Scores recorded at 2013-03-04 05:13:05 forum time.

[Cinth]

I see someone couldn't let a newbie have a good time lol ;)

Anyway, I kept at "Wrapped" and "Hit the road" but couldn't figure a way to make up any more time.

Seemed like the more time I spent trying, the longer the boards took  :-\

[Helper]

Seemed like the more time I spent trying, the longer the boards took  :-\

That's happened to me more than once! I usually take a quick run through each of the games - just to see how they play out - and then come back at them again 'for score'. Very often that first score is the best I will get all week. Mission 3 (Give it a rest) was like that this week. I hit 4:19 on the first run and never got close to that again.

Hope you had some fun and will stick around for this week's game.

[Cinth]

These boards were fun and definitely within my ability to play.  "Experimental Week" and the last 2 batman boards were pretty hard for me overall.  Now that this week has finished, I feel like I can ask how you all approached these.  The rotating fields on mission 4 really gave me problems (especially the one at the bottom). 

[Helper]

These boards were fun and definitely within my ability to play.  "Experimental Week" and the last 2 batman boards were pretty hard for me overall.  Now that this week has finished, I feel like I can ask how you all approached these.  The rotating fields on mission 4 really gave me problems (especially the one at the bottom). 

I think game selection in this thread should be geared toward the big chunk of us who are somewhere in the middle of the skill level. There is a great thread about "Impossible" games for anyone who wants to show off their superior abilities (and a good dose of humility for those of us who might think we're getting pretty good).

Attached is a screenshot from near the end of #4 (Wrapped...).
That bottom pit was killing me until I attacked it early. You can see the three different attack points. From that bottom right position, I used 2 Makers maxed out ("charged") and exploded them right on top of the Emitter. That let me build Shields and move Blasters/Launchers enough to control it and kill it. Shield placement is critical when playing in fields. It protects you as your Launchers chew up the densest Creeper and your Blasters can do the clean up work.

[Cinth]

I hit the bottom from 3 sides too.. AC pushed in from the left, 4/4 Blasters and Missiles in the middle to keep the build up from getting real bad and on the right, I push down hard with just blasters and missiles.  I'm able to kill the emitter fine (placement and timing to go off before the field rotates to it).  Mostly it was cleaning up the left over.  I pretty much hit all the chambers from either the top or the left side (whichever was closer to the emitter/gate).  I'm going to guess that ss is around the 8 minute mark :(.  I'm definitely slower getting down to the bottom chamber.

[Lord_Farin]

Where my approach diverts from Helper's is in the more extensive use of Tech Domes. I've since noted that my time can be improved by at least one minute when it is played properly from the beginning (I used an intermediary save to post my second score of 10708).

The two attached screenshots should give an adequate picture of the strategy I used - keep in mind that my weapons are heavily upgraded. As for the other maps, they are covered by Kithros's strategy guide, with the annotation that I heavily and aggressively used makers on the fifth map.