Custom Map #4299: Goofing around. By: martinuzz

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Author: martinuzz
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Think well, and act fast, or your little camp will be overrun.

[Karsten75]

Think well, and act fast, or your little camp will be overrun.

Au contraire. Next time I'll go for quick actions and a clear strategy. ;)

[martinuzz]

Heya!
Glad you liked it.
I just bought this game a few days ago and was taking a break from the campaign to check out the map editor, and this is my first try at mapmaking.
I'm sorry if the map doesn't have any fancy stuff like scripts or anything. It's as vanilla basic as can be.

[Karsten75]

Heya!
Glad you liked it.
I just bought this game a few days ago and was taking a break from the campaign to check out the map editor, and this is my first try at mapmaking.
I'm sorry if the map doesn't have any fancy stuff like scripts or anything. It's as vanilla basic as can be.

It's cool. Don't apologize about it. Not every player wants a map with scripts and stuff - variety is the spice of life. You'll see I improved my time a tad. I'm wondering if I can catch up with that time of FelucoPower - initially I thought that was way out of range, but if I optimize my strategy a tad.. who knows?

[Johnny Haywire]

I decided to optimize the time on this one but totally messed up the bottom two emitters. Not sure if I feel like re-doing it to improve my time or not, but I expect Alter Old and maybe a couple others to post near-2-minute times on this. Maybe even under the 2m mark.

Martinuzz, I like how this is set up to be a speed map - good work! You have several threats that have to be neutralized pretty quickly in order to get a fast time.

Welcome to the game, and I look forward to your future maps! Thanks for this one  ;D

[Johnny Haywire]

Yeah, third run was under 2 minutes and that's with me having missed several points of optimization. There is a LOT to get right in just the right sequence in such an involved map, and I'm just not meticulous enough for that. If I had to guess, I'd say fully optimized would be around 1:30-1:40.

I'm interested to see how close my guess is... maybe Dom, Alter Old, and/or EA will prove me right!  ;)

[D0m0nik]

This is a rare map where:

Spoiler

After landing the 3 CNs and building 3 siphons you can then pause and lay down every single unit that you need to win the game. You can then just let it run and the only thing you need to do is upgrade packet speed to shave 3 seconds of your time. My time can be beaten by a few seconds by organising the relays into straight lines and being smart about your network.

There is actualy not much to do, just lay down collectors, relays, two reactors on PZs for when energy runs out, and put down every nulifier. The corner ones will need 2-3 cannons in support. I also added one sprayer.

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[D0m0nik]

Ok just moved my relays and shave 0.4 secs  :o

[martinuzz]

I actually made a little mistake making the map. The four power siphons should be on the lower four 9x9 platforms of the little pyramid to prevent landing all 3 CNs at game start. I actually beat it in my first try using only a single CN (albeit with a horrible 24 minute time), which relies on using one of the PZ for a relay to reach outward fast. I could upload a second, single CN version if anyone's interested.

[Johnny Haywire]

This is a rare map where:

Great time, Dom! Maybe I'll restart the map but it's so tedious I'm not sure it's worth it.  ;)

I actually made a little mistake making the map. The four power siphons should be on the lower four 9x9 platforms of the little pyramid to prevent landing all 3 CNs at game start

Actually, I only landed one CN in the middle - the other two I landed in the corners and made a grid of collectors all around the edges. I connected those CN's to the middle with relays once I got the siphon.

[stdout]

I enjoyed this map. It was a nice puzzle to try to get it to all fire into victory with a single unpause. I played it thrice before I finally got a satisfying win, and I may come back and try to be as elite as the top winners. Looking forward to more maps from you.