Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Conic Sections - closing 14 Jul 2013

[asmussen]

Taking inspiration from the previous week's theme again, with another math related theme. This week's topic is "conic sections" (Including one degenerate case).

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Theme:
Conic Sections



   
   
   
   
   
   

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
Line	Small	Low
Hyperbola	Small	Medium
Elipse	Medium	Medium
Parabola	Small	High
Circle	Medium	High

[ea3401]

Parabola is diabolic.

[Grauniad]

Parabola is diabolic.

If you say that,  I suspect the scores will be low and few this week. :)

[asmussen]

I don't know. I personally didn't think it was as difficult as some of the other ones we've had recently. A little tough to survive the first drone breakout, but once you get past that, it's not so bad.

[asmussen]

Results Per Player


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Rank	Name	Line	Hyperbola	Elipse	Parabola	Circle	Total Score	Total Time
1	asmussen	12117	11583	12614	10712	8361	55387	64:43
2	dt42	12040	11700	12605	10531	8388	55264	63:58
3	DougB	11814	11309	12417	9938	7840	53318	82:59
4	Marley	12099	11288	12212	9068	8132	52799	90:55
5	MizInIA	11704	10450	11993	9439	4803	48389	221:41
6	mopa42	12085	11858	12684	10468		47095
7	Atomicfrog	12111	11766	12831		9343	46051
8	Wheatmidge		11835	13000	11294	9638	45767
9	inept_celt	11928	10772	12155		6375	41230
10	Anarchy Ape	11668	9875	12036		5859	39438
11	ctuna	12175	11780	12785			36740
12	sept1973	11941	10377	11871			34189
13	Martin	12016		12613			24629
14	ea3401		12014		11467		23481
15	RockyRaccoon	11874	10334				22208
16	Line	11803					11803
17	Ultraexactzz	11503					11503
18	Hyperbola		10978				10978
19	theo	10701					10701

Scores recorded at 2013-07-14 03:50:38 forum time.

[ea3401]

... survive the first drone breakout ...

Okay. I tried to prevent this breakout. That was a little bit complicated, but obviously not necessary.

[asmussen]

... survive the first drone breakout ...

Okay. I tried to prevent this breakout. That was a little bit complicated, but obviously not necessary.

PREVENT it??? How in the world...

[ea3401]

This is how I started "Parabola".

[asmussen]

Ah, I see what you meant now. You managed to clear the first section before the breakout happened. When you said 'prevent', I thought you literally meant that you prevented the breakout from occurring at all, which I couldn't imagine happening. Still impressive, though. I had barely managed to build up enough defenses to survive the breakout by the time it occurred. It wouldn't have even occurred to me that it would be possible to fully clear that before the drones from the bottom broke out.

[Wheatmidge]

Hmm. I guess I couldn't catch up to ea's score this week. That was actually a fun challenge. I used a different strategy. I grabbed all the gems on the left and then flew through the stream and capped the top emitter and gateway before building any weapons (except one repulsor).
My defense was not as solid as for the breakout of the lower chamber I only had 3 blasters and a bunch of shields but it still held.

[deety42]

Well, I have to laugh.  My set up looks almost the same as ea's, except for the small fact that my time is at 7:00 ;)

[Marley]

Note to self: the next time you're doing really well on a diabolic map, SAVE before doing something stupid! ::)

Oh well, I'm not playing that one again.  (*kicks self*)

[Anarchy Ape]

Happened to me on Circle. Doing fairly well, about to cap last emitter, run to the bathroom and forget to pause, next thing I know half my base and all my defenses are gone.  40 minutes later, finally finish.  Won't even try to improve on my score.

[asmussen]

I'm not sure why, but lately somebody has been putting in the map name for their player name when submitting their scores. Maybe it's a new player who misunderstood what the field was for when submitting their scores or something. If that is the case, that field is for entering your name as you wish it to appear in the high score tables. You only need to set it once, and it'll stay set unless you change it later.

[Marley]

I used a different strategy. I grabbed all the gems on the left and then flew through the stream and capped the top emitter and gateway before building any weapons (except one repulsor).

Ok, dumb newbie question.  What did you do about all those drones?  If there's a "Run away" strategy I haven't figured it out yet.  And how do you keep them from taking out the nullifier?