Weekly 5-Map Tournament - Ships from Alien Movies - closing 12 February 2012

zaphod · February 07, 2012, 06:08:22 PM

Thought I would use the names of the spaceships that were used for the Alien movies, hope they prove to be enjoyable. Have fun

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Theme:
Ships from Alien movies

Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
Nostromo	Small	Low
Narcissus	Medium	Medium
Sulaco	Large	Medium
Betty	Large	Medium
Auriga	Small	High

*****************edit performed to make it more likely that a score can be posted on Sulaco map. Should still be challenging enough without being too easy**************************

Final scores

Tournament Results

Rank	Player	Total Score
1.	Lord_Farin	58574
2.	zaphod	57986
3.	Durban	57602
4.	Katra	57375
5.	ctuna	56399
6.	dt42	53086
7.	Schmane	53058
8.	inept_celt	46946
9.	TheSmileyCoder	45135*
10.	Lich98	42491*
11.	dd790	28196*
12.	Gu250	23350*
13.	empty	11392*

* Did not finish all maps.

gu250 · February 07, 2012, 07:27:59 PM

Nice theme, now start to play :)

SmileyCoder · February 08, 2012, 05:13:10 AM

Looking forward to it.

deety42 · February 08, 2012, 06:44:08 PM

Well, I'm new to trying these challenges, but Sulaco is a definite challenge! Good luck. I'm interested to hear how people approach it.

lich98 · February 08, 2012, 07:51:53 PM

I'm going to take a chance at this contest, might as well i have nothing else to do. :P

zaphod · February 11, 2012, 05:13:07 AM

Ok folks, it would appear that I have managed to find an impossible map with Sulaco Large/High.

If no one has managed to post a score for this map by 18:00 Saturday GMT, that is 7hours 48 mins from this post i will change it to a different one

Kithros · February 11, 2012, 09:39:48 AM

Quote from: zaphod on February 11, 2012, 05:13:07 AM
Ok folks, it would appear that I have managed to find an impossible map with Sulaco Large/High.

If no one has managed to post a score for this map by 18:00 Saturday GMT, that is 7hours 48 mins from this post i will change it to a different one

It's definitely not impossible, perhaps beyond what most people will be able to do, but it's not too hard to kill off the emitter to the right before it breaks free, and with all direction building there should be more than enough room to build to take on everything else, even with the titan emitter. Perhaps a bit slow, but I've been under far worse energy constraints and beaten titans.

I might get around to finishing it sometime.

lich98 · February 11, 2012, 10:46:45 AM

Yes but most people who play this aren't like you Kithros. I can't beat it after several attempts.

Kithros · February 11, 2012, 12:03:21 PM

Quote from: lich98 on February 11, 2012, 10:46:45 AM
Yes but most people who play this aren't like you Kithros. I can't beat it after several attempts.

I wasn't saying it was an easy map, I was just saying that it is not an impossible map.

zaphod · February 11, 2012, 01:17:05 PM

As promised Sulaco is now changed from Large/High to Large/Medium.

Enjoy

lich98 · February 11, 2012, 01:22:18 PM

Thanks

Cavemaniac · February 12, 2012, 01:32:55 AM

Quote from: zaphod on February 07, 2012, 06:08:22 PM
Thought I would use the names of the spaceships that were used for the Alien movies, hope they prove to be enjoyable. Have fun

Theme:
Ships from Alien movies

Map Name: Size: Complexity:
Nostromo Small Low
Narcissus Medium Medium
Sulaco Large Medium
Betty Large Medium
Auriga Small High

Oh for the love of....

Thank you!

It's been driving me nuts - my mate is a massive film buff and he's constantly casually throwing film references my way for me to try to place.

It was years before I recognised the significance of his email address - PBRStreetgang = Appocolypse Now.

It only took a few minutes to figure out he T-Shirt he sent me for my birthday - Walter Chang's Market, Perfection Nevada = Tremors.

And now, months later, I finally understand his iPhone tags - 'Sent from my iPhone Sulaco' = Aliens!

So simple now I know what I'm looking at...

Google?

Never heard of it!

dd790 · February 12, 2012, 04:12:37 PM

Just noticed this and trying to hit the leader board. Done the 3 quickest looking maps and made 10th. Hoping to have a better go at the next one as I doubt I'll do all the maps before 12

zaphod · February 12, 2012, 04:38:08 PM

Quote from: dd790 on February 12, 2012, 04:12:37 PM
Just noticed this and trying to hit the leader board. Done the 3 quickest looking maps and made 10th. Hoping to have a better go at the next one as I doubt I'll do all the maps before 12

Well as of this moment you have about 2 hrs 23 mins.

Good luck!!!

zaphod · February 12, 2012, 07:02:24 PM

Final scores for this tournament are

Tournament Results

Rank	Player	Total Score
1.	Lord_Farin	58574
2.	zaphod	57986
3.	Durban	57602
4.	Katra	57375
5.	ctuna	56399
6.	dt42	53086
7.	Schmane	53058
8.	inept_celt	46946
9.	TheSmileyCoder	45135*
10.	Lich98	42491*
11.	dd790	28196*
12.	Gu250	23350*
13.	empty	11392*

* Did not finish all maps.

Well done Lord_Farin you are this weeks winner.

I hope you all enjoyed the maps