Custom Map #1857: Nowhere to Build. By: warren

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Author: warren
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How is it possible to win when there is nowhere to build? #puzzle

[fanstar1]

#Whatsthesecret

[Ceraus]

Ugh! Got it, but that was tediously close. It certainly is a puzzle, but there's no real trick to it. Well... depends on what you call a trick. Yeah, there's probably one, then.

No idea how someone got under 3 minutes.

[warren]

Secret #1:

Spoiler

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Secret#2:

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No idea how to get under 3 minutes.

[radd]

I gave up.
I figured out what needed to be done but controlling the CNs is so tedious I realized I wasn't having fun.

[warren]

hmmm... There certainly are a lot of people who think they found the answer. If you find the solution, everything after the first thirty seconds is easy.

[Ceraus]

Just improved my time to 2:42.

Spoiler

Once the initial Cannon is built, you're all set, but there's a lot of tedious optimisation to be done:

• float the Cannon to keep it safe; charge its ammo barely enough to protect the other structures
• build the two next Nullifiers at once
• rotate your Command Nodes so that you almost always have two that are producing energy
• keep floating the Cannon to have the single Collector benefit a Command Node

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