Custom Map: Nice Job 19: The Paleontologist

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Author: UpperKEES

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You'll have a rather easy start, but as the emitters increase slightly during the first 15 minutes you won't be able to just sit and wait. Can be played laid back though. Have some prehistoric fun!

[UpperKEES]

Title:	Nice Job 19: The Paleontologist
Difficulty:	Hard
Creeper type:	Land only
Remarks:	You'll have a rather easy start, but as the emitters increase slightly during the first 15 minutes you won't be able to just sit and wait. Can be played laid back though. Have some prehistoric fun!
Description:	For weeks you have been escavating the fossile remains of 5 prehistoric animals. As an experienced paleontologist you realize how lucky you are to find so many different species at one site. Finally you and your team are finished and all creatures seem to be perfectly intact: - a Tyrannosaurus Rex - a Pterodactylus - a Stegosaurus - an Apatosaurus (also known as Brontosaurus) - a Trilobite At the moment you take your camera to make some pictures, the animals turn out to be less fossilized than you expected....
Download page:	Nice Job 19: The Paleontologist
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[NNR_Alex]

'can be played laid back' yeah after i got 2-3 blasters and 2 mortars up and running, then filling up most of the space i had with reactors.  I lost a lot of time trying to advance too soon, and even more time trying to cap one of the emitters before i realized it can't be done

[UpperKEES]

'can be played laid back' yeah after i got 2-3 blasters and 2 mortars up and running, then filling up most of the space i had with reactors.  

Hahaha! ;D Like I said you can't just sit and wait, but you won't get into real trouble during the first minutes when you just build collectors and a few reactors.

After that you can just add 1 mortar and 1 blaster and keep building reactors without getting a deficit.

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I guess it also depends a bit which location you chose for Odin City.... ;)

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I lost a lot of time trying to advance too soon, and even more time trying to cap one of the emitters before i realized it can't be done

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Indeed better wait until you have enough energy, some storage and a few speed nodes set up, so you don't have to worry about that later.

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3 of the 5 emitters can be capped and those are the 3 strongest. Two blasters is enough for each of them (assuming they don't get distracted by surrounding creeper), but I added 1 more myself to be sure. Only the Trilobite and the Pterodactylus can't be capped.

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[NNR_Alex]

yeah i had a lot of blasters on that stupid bug, the bird wasn't much of an issue as i just had to clear the creeper away from the corner wing.

[Fisherck]

Wow. Another fun map that constantly tests my skills at this game. I must have started it five times before I got my plan down, and even then, you beat me by 4 minutes (game time)! :'( But I loved the challenge of the map ;D. Keep it up!

[UpperKEES]

Thanks! :)

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I overbuilt a little (up to 23-24 energy and because that was too much I built >20 speed nodes), so 16 minutes should be possible.

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[Alwego]

Thanks! :)

I overbuilt a little (up to 23-24 energy and because that was too much I built >20 speed nodes), so 16 minutes should be possible.

~17 energy packet per second should be ok ;-)

[Miss Melissa]

Dinosaurs!  ;D  im obviously determined. those scores are pretty hard to beat..

[UpperKEES]

~17 energy packet per second should be ok ;-)

Great time Alwego! :) Nice to see you back here and even better to see that you're still as good as you were a couple of months ago!

Thanks for the tip, I'll take that into account during my next attempt.

Dinosaurs!  ;D  im obviously determined. those scores are pretty hard to beat..

Yeah, I guessed you would like that. ;) Indeed pretty tough scores. I will have to think of something new to beat Alwego....  8)

[UpperKEES]

~17 energy packet per second should be ok ;-)

Yep.

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I started off with about 16 and completed the map with ~19. I misjudged the timing for building my second batch of blasters, which cost me about 40 seconds. It was my 3rd attempt by the way; on my 2nd try I had exactly your score: 7947, so I aborted when the rift opened. :P

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[DethbyIT]

 :-[
Anyone feeling generous enough to offer a couple more hints?
I've read through all of the comments, tried a variety of locations for the city, blasters & mortars, reactors & collectors - all with the same (dead) result.
Thanks.
dbit

[UpperKEES]

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I'd pick the Apatosaurus (OC is between its tail when you start) and first generate as much energy as possible before creating weapons.

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I'd use a blaster to prevent the creeper from flowing down the neck and a mortar to attack the creeper in the center of the map. Keep generating more energy (reactors!) and only add weapons when you really need them. A total of 2 mortars should be enough, but you'll need a lot more blasters to conquer the map completely.

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When you start your assault I would go up and clear the Stegosaurus. Just advance a little and again generate more energy. When you're up to 16-18 energy per second you start adding some speed nodes and all the blasters you'll need for the rest of the map. Then cross to the T-rex and connect to the final totems.

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Let me know if that works out for you!

[AJ]

Thank you - I'm am setting up right now.
Details later.

[DethbyIT]

Glad I'm not the only one looking for help.
Thank you for the hints - I was able to survive all the way through (but would love to see a video of one of you speed demons cranking through it).

Excellent fun.