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1/24 - 11:56 1st attempt. Moved Odin City once. 1 drone, 1 mortar, several blasters. I'm sure you hotshots will be sub 10. Good luck to you all.
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replaying 1/24, got it in 11:21. You can land on the central plateau, which makes the level massively easier. The right-hand landmass can be reached for extra energy, but it requires several rebuilds and repeated drone bombardment. The pool at the top can be managed with a single mortar, making the surrounding plain and its totem easily accessible. The totem in the central pool can be reached from the ledge above, and the last one can be reached by droning the pool on the lower left, concentrating blasters on a single area, and using them to cover constructing a collector.
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1/24 I always moved my city to the elevated portion on the center-left. Due to the arrangement of the terrain, this is actually the last place you can land on that gets swamped. I immediately built a drone and tried to get to the landmass on the right. I eventually ended up with two drones, one alternating upper and lower-left pools, the other continually bombing the big pool just below the center. A relay pair allowed me to use the space on the rightward landmass for energy, eventually, but I didn't actually manage to make good use of it until more than midway through. After you've fought off the initial encroachment, the totems themselves are close together so you can get them quickly. I managed to get 16:48 on my fifth(?) attempt.
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1/24 is doable, but its hard. I made a base camp where we started, and then, after building a drone, I exposed the peak in the north west, moved over there, achieved security with some prebuilt mortars, shut down the two nearest... goop makers?... and pushed east along the northern boundary. Took 37 minutes.
here's my stats thing http://i43.tinypic.com/suvgr4.png
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1/23 1:30, but there's a few seconds that can be trimmed off that. Really dropped the ball on the 22nd, didn't think it was that easy :)
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Not amazing on the 22nd. Tried again with 4:47 (one drone run, 5 blasters) but did the same thing: grab 3 techs lower left and hit the right middle plateau after droning the bottom right gully a bit past 3 minutes. 3.5 power out of just collectors, really should be able to make that last link faster.
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You can chop off a second by filling the farther collectors while building the collector to the nearest one. Probably another if you don't waste 2 packets that don't arrive at their destination :) http://i.imgur.com/zSJdXpP.jpg
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1/19 with just Reactors, Relays, and Mortars. The spores bit hard with no defenses, but eventually prevailed at 32:06.
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Probably means 1-18 or 1-19 both of which are relatively flat with spores on the latter. There's two options for either, make some weaps then stake out a claim on the high area near the spores and totems or hang back and build (get power to 6 or 7 before you start assaulting). Oh and on 1-18 you can keep the plateau you start on creeper free with just a blaster for a long time. I didn't bother to finish, but II'd ballpark it at 7 minutes for a decent time on the 18th, maybe 5 minutes or so on the 19th depending on how feasible grabbing the plateau from two spawners is :)
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KXI Systems: If you look below you will see 2 posted times of 3:56 and 5:00 minutes. These were done by 2 of the better regular players. I took about 5.5 minutes. HINTS: Look at moving Odin City near the orange power-ups immediately. Keep your Energy meter and Deficit meters near zero if at all possible while performing your builds. Don't let the Deficit meter get too negative. That usually indicates you are overbuilding. Also, when hawk45 is kind enough to post a picture, study what he did to get clues on good building practices. Good luck.
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1-16 5:20 and I guess I didn't have to move the city at all (it helps a little, especially since exit point is on top of the totem nearest the creeper spawns and it's pretty easy to bridge). One drone, 5 blasters and a maze of collectors.
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Here is a slightly faster time for yesterday's mission, 1/14- 5:41. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=28sab8m&s=5#.UtboY9iA3cs
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aranbon - There is no wrong or right way to play the game. I usually play without reactors. Other times I'll play with blasters as the only weapon. The hardest version for me is mortars only and no pause at double speed.