2012 01 Lost Eden GOTM: Stranger In A Strange World (SMAC)

[sisko]

I didn't know that this was fixed to have a transcend difficulty... I suppose I should pay moar attention. I guess I can DL it and give Miriam a quick thrashing.

please do.

[I Have No Name]

Here we go submission for transcend.

(click to show/hide)

Took me longer than I had hoped. Miriam decided to send a hoard of useless rovers towards my bases, I kind of overreacted with the defense I also waited until I had 7 transports and an IotD Could have easily went when I was at 5 transports and still easily overrun New Jerusalem's defenses. Those two reasons combined cost me maybe 5 or 6 turns.

The new sargasso(probably spelled wrong) is an interesting wild card in this scenario. I got a kelp farm, 100 ec, a free tech, and an IotD spawn. I don't think I noticed that on my first time playing. Would be very useful to get probeteam tech from that, but I got I think information networks. Not 100% sure but it was useless to the premise of the scenario whatever I got. If anyone is able to get probes from one of those and can successfully remove New Jerusalem's perimeter defenses with a probe team that would make winning incredibly effortless.

[sisko]

wow! that was fast.
and it's a fast victory too. you're on top of the standings now.

[Thomas]

I forgot about game: I finished in 2194(transcended), but i went on a bit of a rampage and conquered half of Belivers Cities. You just have to move a charmander to win, in my save game.


And one thing is interesting - what version of map are u playing - because when i copied the files i had 2 vesrions: 'gotm' and 'gotm-transcended' i found out that on 'gotm-transcended' you dont have monolith near New Jerusalem (and thats a pain cause you have to shuffle all the way to the second nearest monolith for healing - i lost 6 or 7 turns because of that), so which one is for the transcended diffculty ??

[sisko]

And one thing is interesting - what version of map are u playing - because when i copied the files i had 2 vesrions: 'gotm' and 'gotm-transcended' i found out that on 'gotm-transcended' you dont have monolith near New Jerusalem (and thats a pain cause you have to shuffle all the way to the second nearest monolith for healing - i lost 6 or 7 turns because of that), so which one is for the transcended diffculty ??

the monolith was removed on purpose for the transcend difficulty scenario.
there are also lots of other small changes on the map meant to make it harder.

[I Have No Name]

Like the believers having ships in the water this time... luckily I had an escort ship and an IotD.

[Kilkakon]

Haha it's nice that the transcend version has had some tweaks to make it harder. I see some naughty people reverse entgineered charmanders. Oh well haha. Still, hope that everybody has been having fun. That's the point of this really.

Three saves submitted so far!

[Earthmichael]

Here is my transcend submission where I "Go Directly For New Jerusalem".  I captured New Jerusalem on turn 2183.  I have attached the winning save.

The pods were not so useful.  I got a useless Networking tech, a Unity Rover (using IOD), completion of a transport, and an IOD (which I captured).

I did reverse engineer Charmaders to lower their defense (and cost), which I thought was legal.

It was a fast victory, but not nearly as satisfying as completely eliminating Miriam, in my earlier submission.

[Thomas]

Well on my second attempt i was only 3 turns faster (with reversed enginereed charmanders and all) - 2191(Trans)

(click to show/hide)

- You dont need LABS - so change ratio to 80-20 and use energy to speed up production
- I had strange issue, at beggining Charmander cost 45 MINERALS, and 4-2-2 grav  36 MIN, but after a while both of them cost 36 MIN - maybe i found some tech in NEW SARAGOSSA...
- if you are going with - conquer ALL , be prepared for massive defense in last city (NEW JERUSALEM) - she had like 10 * 1-3-1 defenders + sensors + PD - even my ELITE charmanders had only  ~50% chance to win this.
-... and thats why u need WORMS, they are having  1:1 ratio when attacking NEW JERUSALEM (with only one MORALE UPGRADE - with more they are ahead)

[sisko]

Just noticed that CEO Nwabudike Morgan is recommending this scenario on his Facebook page:

Good morning consumers! I recommend participating in the 2012 Game of the Month competition! You can win prices from gog.com, giving you extra money to spend on you business enterprise, which, by the force of the Free Market, will help you to achieve world domination (as part of the Morgan group, of course). Do not hesitate! The Market favours the brave!

[Kilkakon]

Haha nice work there. XD Morgan knows what he's on about!

[I Have No Name]

Never thought about reverse engineering. That would make things quite a bit easier. 2 units for the cost of 1 and then they get a 25% attack bonus versus bases.

[sisko]

you're still in time...

[I Have No Name]

Even though it's a short scenario I am having trouble finding the time to play anything lately. I doubt I could beat that time without extreme saving/reloading anyways, which isn't my style.

[Kilkakon]

Do we have a winner?