Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Color - closing May 12, 2013

[asmussen]

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Black Belt	Blue Goo Experiments	Too yellow	Red Giant	Tyrian Purple	Total Score	Total Time
1	ea3401	11222	11855	12834	10229	12040	58180	45:56
2	asmussen	10457	11139	12096	9498	11059	54249	80:52
3	dt42			12297	9611	11285	33193
4	Eketek	10474	11810				22284
5	Wheatmidge	10741	10722				21463
6	Atomicfrog					11408	11408
7	MizInIA					9094	9094

Scores recorded at 2013-05-09 22:49:03 forum time.

[asmussen]

"Red Giant" on small/high was great fun!  :)

So far, I've been able to destroy the gateway and drones, but am struggling on making any headway after that. Still trying, though. :)

[ea3401]

@Eketek: "Blue Goo Experiments" in 3:36 min? How did you do it?  ???

[Eketek]

@Eketek: "Blue Goo Experiments" in 3:36 min? How did you do it?  ???

Oh, with some more optimizations it's 3:18.

I built a kill zone to use with laser pulsing.  I micromanaged packets (to avoid feeding the laser too much while I wanted to build reactors at full speed).  I manipulated the beam in three areas simultaneously while clearing the area below.

[deety42]

Any more advice on Red Giant?  I love the idea of using anticreep as the main drone killer, and I get a couple of blasters built.  Been trying to take out the emitter on the right side of the map and just can't do it because phantoms keep knocking out the nullifier. 

[asmussen]

Any more advice on Red Giant?  I love the idea of using anticreep as the main drone killer, and I get a couple of blasters built.  Been trying to take out the emitter on the right side of the map and just can't do it because phantoms keep knocking out the nullifier. 

Ummmm... Are you sure you're talking about the right map? Red Giant didn't have any phantoms.

[deety42]

Oops.  No, black belt!

[asmussen]

Oops.  No, black belt!

Well, the way I approached it, I started out much like you described (Thanks again to Kithros for the tactical advice. :) ). I built a maker to start with, and then two blasters after the maker was built and producing, doing the drone tag routine the whole time. I then used the maker and two blasters to secure the middle section of the map, digging down first to secure the ore deposit so that the maker wouldn't stop producing when the ore from the remnants ran out, and using the rest of the space for reactors, with phantom coils as protection. While I was building up my economy, I added blasters to my force on top, until I had about a dozen or so total. I split that force and took half of it to the right to take out the emitter there. I don't recall having any issues with phantoms killing the nullifiers, but I probably had phantom coils in position to take any spores out before they got to the nullifier. Are you not using enough coils, or lacking them in the right positions to protect your nullifier, maybe?

[deety42]

Aha!  I've been going after the right side first and leaving the middle alone, so there's no place to build anything.  I thought about the middle, but that was so long ago I forget why I decided not to try it.  One more try!  Thanks!

[ea3401]

The final scoreboard:

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Black Belt	Blue Goo Experiments	Too yellow	Red Giant	Tyrian Purple	Total Score	Total Time
1	ea3401	11277	11855	12834	10838	12040	58844	39:48
2	Eketek	10474	12027	12717	10406	11438	57062	55:24
3	asmussen	10457	11139	12096	9498	11059	54249	80:52
4	dt42	9665		12297	9611	11285	42858
5	Wheatmidge	10741	11760				22501
6	Atomicfrog					11408	11408
7	MizInIA					9094	9094

Scores recorded at 2013-05-13 00:14:18 forum time.

[ea3401]

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