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Whew, 5/1 was tough! 27:27 with modified RKC -- no drones, no reactors, move the city just once. My strategy was to stay in a small, defensible area while building up strength, use mortars to keep the deep creeper in check, then conquer the the high ground in a massive rush.
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@ramhead2003 Other than changing game speed when you hit the keyboard "up arrow" or "down arrow" keys, I have this hunch: you probably didn't move the city. Put it on higher ground at start. Have a look at my tutorials: http://tiny.cc/cw-tutorials-2016-08-24 ...and... http://tiny.cc/cw-tutorials-2017-04-16
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Probably not, ramhead2003. The developer published this game 6 years ago. It's on autopilot; each day's map uses the date as a seed. Maybe you hit the up-arrow, which doubles the game speed (a little indicator will show on the bottom of the screen).
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Fellow travelers. I will be taking some time off from our wonderful game. I will be with you in spirit. My thanks to many of you who have made the journey both more fun and enlightening.
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I wouldn't call it dedication. You're right about it seeming like a bot, but in a different sense. All humans are almost all the time on the auto pilot of their subconscious brain. He is just on a different auto pilot than we are. It sure isn't dedication. Most likely it is some mixture of envy, self-pity, spite and a false sense of inflating his ego. He lacks empathy. That's part of being a narcissist. This is one possible explanation why he doesn't want to be useful.
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I always thought MTargaryen was using a bot to post his comments since they were so repetitive, but his recent comment was clearly written by a human. That puts a new perspective on everything. I'm actually amazed at his dedication. I guess just like some people like to solve the daily crossword puzzle, MTargaryen submits his daily troll comments. Who are we to criticize if that's the way he gets his kicks? Troll on, MTargaryen, troll on.
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MTargaryen, don't get me wrong, I'm not upset or pissed about your comments. I respect people who are friendly, so I try to give them some value. I like to help people, because that way I know that I have a reason for healthy self respect. I understand that you are envious of the friendly communication between everyone else here. But it just baffles me how can you feel so worthless that you don't even try to show any value. Do you have any self respect? I feel sorry for you...
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4/16 - 5:21 RFI on RKC http://imgur.com/a/Sagnb and a new tutorial with very detailed commentary for 5:26 on this RKC: https://youtu.be/l4-wG0O5O1A?list=PLDuUTUjvbZY0hhByU81RfiIWmNmyifayp with extremely early mortar bombing run, then reload (weapon disarmed) asap and return to bombing run with two mortars. NO need to guard on the city's level with blasters, NO SAMs needed.
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I'm glad you liked it :) It was just one recording and then I cut out short parts where I didn't know what to say. That was a lot of work, but I would be really embarrassed if you'd hear those parts :)
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4/16 - 6:51 RFI on RKC http://imgur.com/a/e4KGi and a new tutorial with very detailed commentary for the previous 7:51 on this RKC: https://youtu.be/ZYT4anzP1Z8?list=PLDuUTUjvbZY0hhByU81RfiIWmNmyifayp
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Hm... Interesting result. The Rain_King Challenge (RKC) was up to now the fastest strategy to green out the entire map on 4/16. Maybe it's because it's already the 10th time I played 4/16 :) 11:22 on RKC and greenout. Obviously massive RFI if you don't green out the map :)
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4/16 is a good level for the Rain King challenge (no drones, no reactors, no base movement). 25:57 but I wasn't really going for speed, just completion :)
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I like the map today (4/16) a lot! :) gathering upgrades at start, tight unflooded spaces, spores... I built MANY drones today :)
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Apparently if you take too long, the creep just kicks into overdrive, and wipes you out
Would've been nice to know that.
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if you think about infinite mass production you'll end up in a thought experiment that involves black holes and serious issues with space-time under the influence of gravity. here's a great explanation about black holes: https://youtu.be/vNaEBbFbvcY
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To Balbanes: yes, it could, but we need to know how much mass emitters produce every second (let's call it creep generation speed, v, mass per second). If we take the mass (M) of Jupiter-sized bunch of creep and divide it by creep generation speed, we'll get the time (t) required to make this much creep: t = M / v. It can be pretty much time.
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@Benni_shadow: spore attacks are survivable as long as you have dense network with plenty of alternate paths and energy storage. Seems to me the game's inspiration was a tcp/ip network. The internet began as a military project -- a network that could survive and function despite loss of many components. Where’s my badge? :)
http://imgur.com/a/LTe9z
This map survived 3 spore attacks of 7 spores each.
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@Benni_shadow: if you want that to be hard, you need to set one more rule: the position of totems on that map has to make it impossible to build quick enough to win the map before spores hit.
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I have a challenge so hard you need to prepare to cry=)
challenge:In a spore map you cant use BLASTERS or SAMS MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH you cant do it =)
If you do do the S.P.O.R.E. challenge you get the badge...
L E G E N D 27PTS Hard Badge
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21/3 - 1:44. RFI cos I used a low-tech blaster rather than the flying toys used by the experts :-) And I left it too late to post to hold today's record briefly - congrats RealOldman.