Custom Map #824: Eruption. By: MagiMaster

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Author: MagiMaster
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Creeper is erupting from underground. You'll need to act fast to slow it down. #Spores #CPRL #Large

[Dook]

interesting idea. cool looking map. deserves better than the 5 rating it had

[MagiMaster]

Thanks. I don't exactly mind a low rating, but I wish I knew why so I could do a bit better next time. (Also, I wish I knew how someone finished in 30 minutes.)

[PMouser]

help please, how to do this? with the creeper coming from under your feet. thanks

[MagiMaster]

My method is obviously not the best, but here's roughly how I did it. Maybe someone else can tell us how to get a better time. :)

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First land one command node just outside the outer gate of the top-left castle and another in the far bottom-right corner. Build up some collectors for power. There's not a lot of open ground, but try not to spread out too far unless you don't plan on keeping some of those collectors.

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Build a couple of mortars near the deep areas and then a couple of cannons near the shallow areas around the castle. Build a terp in the bottom-right and use it to make room for a nullifier.

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Build a strafer on the PZ from the spore tower. Use it to assist in areas where your forces are getting overrun.

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Move your terps and mortars around slowly to raise the terrain to prevent creeper from coming up and to level out more area for collectors and better lines of fire.

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Once you've secured a foothold, build a forge and grab a couple of the aether packs for an energy efficiency bonus.

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Make your way towards the totem and the ore near the castle. You'll need the range upgrades to finish the map.

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I also built about ten berthas by the end of the map, but I wouldn't start on them too soon. With the wide front line, energy conservation is a major concern.

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Edit: Oh yeah.

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Don't forget to build beams.

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The first spores should launch at around 12 minutes, so you can put off building them until around 7 or 8 minutes if you need to.

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[MadMag]

Nice terrain!

[RrR]

map can probably be done in 20 minutes

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You have several minutes before the spore towers are covered by creeper. Make the most of it, and they won't bother you.

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AoA + lots of berthas + airpower = bye bye emitters

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[PMouser]

huh, i still starved for energy

[MagiMaster]

Nice terrain!

Thanks. :)

map can probably be done in 20 minutes

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You have several minutes before the spore towers are covered by creeper. Make the most of it, and they won't bother you.

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AoA + lots of berthas + airpower = bye bye emitters

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Did you use guppies to get at the spore towers, or just fly the CNs around?

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I'm just not good enough at managing things to build lots of anything within 20 minutes. I'll have to give it another shot though.

[RrR]

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CN is too slow. With one guppy, I took out two spore towers easily, and one with a bit of faff. Didn't see the south east spore tower until too late. With two guppies (and a terp in the SE) I could have got all four. Plonked a mortar on one of the pz to suppress the creeper - not sure if that helped much. 

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[stewbasic]

I really like the concept of this map :). I might take a peek at the script too.

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I can confirm it's possible to get all the spore towers before they fire. The bottom right requires a terp though. I used 1 CN to take out the bottom left, built a reactor on the PZ, and sent a single guppy from the bottom left to get the other 3. I was a bit suboptimal afterwards though; I spent a lot of time paving the terrain on the left side to connect my bases, which I think wasn't necessary.

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[MagiMaster]

The script is quite short and is separated from the script that mimics the basic emitter (which I found elsewhere).

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I think it could be simplified a little. I decided to just use a counter rather than work out how the timers worked, for example. Also, I added an initial offset so that everything wouldn't be firing all at once, but then made the delay 1, so the offset doesn't get used.

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# Bubble.crpl
# Created on: 7/8/2014 3:05:55 AM
# ------------------------------------------

$Delay:1
$Offset:0
$Count:20
$Strength:5
$Height:1

<-Offset 0 eq if
  <-Count 0 do
    RandCoords ->y ->x

    <-x <-y GetTerrain <-Height lte if
      <-x <-y <-Strength AddCreeper
    endif
  loop

  <-Delay ->Offset
endif

<-Offset 1 sub ->Offset


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[Loren Pechtel]

map can probably be done in 20 minutes

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You have several minutes before the spore towers are covered by creeper. Make the most of it, and they won't bother you.

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AoA + lots of berthas + airpower = bye bye emitters

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Huh?  I got quick kills on two of the four towers.  I missed the tower in the lower right and didn't even try for it but I couldn't get a kill on the central one--the creep came too fast.

[stewbasic]

Huh?  I got quick kills on two of the four towers.  I missed the tower in the lower right and didn't even try for it but I couldn't get a kill on the central one--the creep came too fast.

The middle one is the tightest. I actually thought I couldn't get it and went for top right first, but I noticed that as the top right died there was still a little patch free near the middle, so I restarted. If you start the map on 4x and do nothing, you can see where the spot is and how long you have (roughly, I guess there is some randomness).