duerig's Comments

With the new system I can get 18/1383 for level 19. The current scoring system encourages abstraction by only counting a subroutine as a single box no matter how many boxes it costs to make. I'd be inclined to (a) count redirects and starts as 0 in box count and (b) count any subroutine box by its own component count.

The online map database is temporarily down. This will be resolved some time today.

dwerghamster, you have successfully anticipated the beginning of the plot for SC2. Congratulations. :-)

Since nobody has come across them as far as I can tell, I thought I'd post hints for the random easter egg levels: Some city names cause special maps which change the rules a bit. ## Map names must contain a certain name to be special. For instance, if 'New York' was a special map, then 'New York City' would also be the same kind of special map. ## The author's home town map is a perfect grid, just like in the real world. ## In the city from "28 Days Later", the zombies run. ## There is a mall city inspired by "Dawn of the Dead". ## A medical reference from "Night of the Living Dead" creates an extra challenge. ## Umbrella Corporation's home town is cut off from the mainland but has lots of special buildings. ## If you visit the city from "Land of the Dead", survive as long as you can because the zombies can cross the water... ## In the city where Thriller was shot, the zombies can dance.

Sorry, Marchao. Take a look: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3-general-gaming/topics/115524-shattered-colony-maps-here?page=2 My post is at the very bottom.

People have made a huge number of maps. I checked the database and there are 3100 maps in the database that haven't even been rated in addition to the ones bubbling to the top of the 'most fun' list. I modified the 'recent' list so that it specifically shows maps which haven't been rated. Try a few of the unrated maps and maybe you'll be the first to play an awesome new map. :-)

Version 1.5 of the game released. Better resource control (Gather resources button), more hotkeys, shift-click to add or remove 5, and browsing online maps. Let me know if I've introduced any new bugs.

I think that Kongregate is filtering out all XML tags. If you want to post a map, click the 'upload map' and then post the resulting URL.

If the game won't start for some reason, please PM me your OS and web browser and version of flash. I'm trying to reproduce so I can find out what is happening.

For those having trouble with workers being idle, are you sure you have set higher quotas for workers at the depots where you want them and lower quotas elsewhere? If this is so, can you come up with a reproducible way to show the problem? I want to fix lazy workers if it is an issue, but I can't reproduce yet.