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10/21 - 1:18 spoiler video (no commentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzF7LkbVAnI&list=PLDuUTUjvbZY0hhByU81RfiIWmNmyifayp&index=8
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Spoiler video for the 10/17 starting position challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkwR1qVIMtU&index=7&list=PLDuUTUjvbZY0hhByU81RfiIWmNmyifayp
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You're right. It's really not hard if you do have some experience :)
I think beginners would have trouble with it, and that's one of the reasons I posted this challenge. To give them a good opportunity to go out of their comfort zone and learn. This one is definitely not expert level stuff, but I guess some masters like chilese do like this kind of restrictions just for fun, too :)
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@Durel: build energy production up to 32, speed nodes 5 or more, some storage, straight routes to strategic targets, about 4 blasters and 4 mortars for each emitter, at least 5 drones. Have fun :)
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@Durel: If people would bother to read the game description they would find out about Survival mode. But instead they complain about it here but oh well.
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To those, like me, who like looooooong games: at 60min, creeper output bazillionifies. Notice about that would've been nice but oh well.
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The best on this game is that you can set the difficulty level as high as you want to by making up any rules. Obviously there is a basic difficulty level set by the map you play and by the game itself - you need to learn some basics to win just like in any other game. But as soon as you're done learning the energy management and properties of the city, units and buildings, you're good to go and set your own rules to make it more difficult to win. Survival mode, top time score, not moving the city, not using some weapons or buildings... it's up to you :)
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I like to play with my personal "challenge rules", without worrying too much about time: 1. No moving the base. 2. No reactors. 3. No drones.
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@bloodsukka: you really won't die if you click the BIG "Now Available" Arc Ethernal Creeper World III button on the welcome screen of this game... seriously, nothing bad happens to you. just click it. do it now. i mean now. really. click. come on.
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In the video I'm talking about you'll see a click visualisation effect around my mouse cursor. Sometimes I use that to draw your attention to something important. Especially when I click and hold, for example over the energy management display or the spores attack timer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxszjyRN1u4&list=PLDuUTUjvbZY0hhByU81RfiIWmNmyifayp&index=6
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@chilese: At 11:30 deficit is down to 7 but the first ammo packets for the SAMs are already on their way. I should have switched those SAMs off already when the last of their building packets were on the way to them. I only switched them off at 11:45 when 2 sets of ammo packets were on their way. Because of this mistake I had to wait until those get to them (to avoid losing packets on the way) before I could move those SAMs to their final destination. At 12:50 PAUSED I switched on one of them and then changed my mind and switched off, because I was running low on energy again. I made a big mistake switching off another weapon TOO LATE at 13:05 already in energy deficit again. 13:20 only 20 seconds until spores attack, so I needed that energy loading the far SAMs. That's why I switched off the drones. It's all about timing and energy management.
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@chilese: the switching on/off of the SAMs and all other weapons is energy management. Loading weapons takes MUCH more power than building them. (Power is work divided by time.) If you start the video at 11:15, you'll see that I have 13 energy deficit which is not bad at 3.9 production and 4 depletion, but still I'm depleting more than I can afford. A drone is coming in so I have to swich it off, because that would take 2.5 more depletion to load with ammo.
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@ChangW3 & bpink73: sometimes there is no quick solution. I'll upload a video of 9/23 how I usually play such a map. It takes a long time to process because the game took a loooooong time :)
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For 9/23, fly Odin City round to collect the lower, then middle upgrades, and park on the big raised area at the upper right. Easy from there - unless you're playing without moving the city (as I know some do - if so, ignore this useless comment!)
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Same problem... The best try I got in 9/23 was establishing a choke hold in the valley and advancing up the sides, but I got overwhelmed by the spores because I couldn't afford to buy any SAMs
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I LOVE THIS GAME. It is truly a work of (heavily-strategic) art. It is so simple, but so unlike other games with a tinge of apocalyptic in it that it makes for an exciting experience.
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@ the 3 cnts who clicked "-" to carusoo: you'll keep suffering until you learn that jealousy is a waste of your own precious time.
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@Balbanes we are too proud of our achievements :) there's no point posting a great time if it's a lie. you can definitely trust without screenshots anything posted by hawk45, carusoo, RealOldman, chilese and many others... ask chilese for more - he keeps track of the masters :) you could trust me but I'm an exhibitionist so I smash a screenshot anyway... mostly :) but these screenshots are really not any more to prove anything. they are just spoilers of the network setup. the best players try to beat each other's time first without looking at the screenshots because the puzzle is the challange ;)