Good TG contest map available

Nyx · #1 February 13th, 2001, 06:46 PM

No problem at all, so far cheating has been a non-issue (knock on pLastic-covered particle board). All the scores have been legit. And I don't know that everyone will take advantage of your map. Especially your two prime competitors who seem a bit micromanaged too death.

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geoschmo · #2 February 13th, 2001, 07:22 PM

Amen to that Nyx. I am going to have to take a couple of week break from playing once this contest is over. I have actually had mornings were I wake up out of a sound sleep and think, "Ooo, maybe if I do this I can add a few million points to my score."

That's just sick! laf

Thanks to TG for adding some more enjoyment to an already addictive game.

And I know I will be running at least one game on Drake's map. Even if I can't work out the ringworld thing, with all those extra planets, I figure I ought to be able to break 100 Mil.

Tomgs · #3 February 13th, 2001, 10:41 PM

Well I will be lucky to break 100M in my game so your score looks safe for now

. I didn't use emergency build as aggressively as I should. I am too used to not using things to make it easier on the AI in regular games so I didn't break that mindset enough for the contest. I definately will beat my Last game by a good margin but since I am at turn 115 I don't think I will start over again just yet. When the patch comes out I think that high score will be unmatchable because of the changes to emergency build.

I will have to take a break from the contest when the patch comes out just to see what the changes do for the game so I don't know if I will try another game or not.

Emperor Zodd · #4 February 13th, 2001, 10:46 PM

There should be a new competition after the patch.

raynor · #5 February 13th, 2001, 11:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
There should be a new competition after the patch.

No. There shouldn't. Geoschmo, Tomgs, Drake et. al. have lost enough sleep already.

Drake · #6 February 14th, 2001, 03:03 AM

quote:
Originally posted by geoschmo:
Even if I can't work out the ringworld thing, with all those extra planets, I figure I ought to be able to break 100 Mil.

Heck, if you improve from 7M resource production to 50M, don't give all this credit to the map. I'd say the map will help with your upper limit, the 7x increase is all you.

[quote]Originally posted by Tomgs:
When the patch comes out I think that high score will be unmatchable because of the changes to emergency build. [quote]

Yeah, you're probably right. at 150% rate instead of 200%, I'd lose 2 turns for each planet just building the space yards. Other than that though it'd mainly affect my ringworld building I think. Still, those two turns early lose me over 10M points alone at the end, and that's just a minimum effect. The ringworld situation would be even worse, for a number of reasons.

Now if you could work on multiple things in the same turn it'd REALLY hurt, but as it stands, I lost a lot of extra construction time building facilities on my planets under emergency build. The change to facility construction wouldn't be affected. I'd just have to up my construction rate 6 points to compensate, so it wouldn't be that bad. (Give yourself a gold star (or a ringworld if it makes you happier, heh) if you can figure out what rate I set my const. at now from that info.

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-Drake

raynor · #7 February 14th, 2001, 03:54 PM

Drake,

I don't suppose you'd like to go ahead and post your turn 150 save game?