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gibson wrote:Wheres my 5 fucking dollars?
Are you even subbed to ESOC?
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I haven't checked but have replays survived the last patch update?
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so rip to our recorded games? what do we do now?
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Rohbrot wrote:
gibson wrote:Wheres my 5 fucking dollars?
Are you even subbed to ESOC?
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Do we need to redo the perpetual challenge now?
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gibson wrote:Wheres my 5 fucking dollars?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/829510708
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Btw, November challange was paid? I didn't kill those 7 AI for nothing!
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I'm very confused having watched to minute 6 and seen a stable go down.
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lol accidentally kills a fort at 20 mins
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so i just looked at the new single player meme map,

@n0el so are we banning winter wonderland from this bounty?
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I_HaRRiiSoN_I wrote:so i just looked at the new single player meme map,

@n0el so are we banning winter wonderland from this bounty?
I thought it was quite a nicely balanced mishmash of Plymouth and Great Lakes.
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I_HaRRiiSoN_I wrote:so i just looked at the new single player meme map,

@n0el so are we banning winter wonderland from this bounty?
Will post a decision on this by tomorrow.
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No idea what that new map is, but if a map with 6 extra vils, extra crates, extra scouts, livestock and insane treasures is allowed, I don't see why any map should be banned
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tell you what is a meme, the new map might not actually be better than plymouth, kinda funny actually
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n0el wrote:
I_HaRRiiSoN_I wrote:so i just looked at the new single player meme map,

@n0el so are we banning winter wonderland from this bounty?
Will post a decision on this by tomorrow.
Decision?
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Rohbrot wrote:
n0el wrote:
I_HaRRiiSoN_I wrote:so i just looked at the new single player meme map,

@n0el so are we banning winter wonderland from this bounty?
Will post a decision on this by tomorrow.
Decision?
i'm allowing it.
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After accidentally resigning instead of restarting I never got the desire to spend another four hours just respawning Plymouth which is weird so congrats to either harrison or kaiser. It was not hard for me to get 4:18 pretty quick on this spawn, but once I found that that was possible after employing my optimizations (the shipment arrived at 4:18 and I was mismacro'd but had all the res) I decided to continue being the moral victor and spent hours on a no cheating run.

The winning time will no doubt be played on slow mode with ample pause-micro during the run.

This is a normal speed no pause run.



A few optimizations had to be made -- I had to spawn Plymouth until
1) 500f start (50% chance)
2) 700f on island start (50% chance) and
3) 300f in food treasures around my TC

Just to spawn the required crates there is a 1/4 chance. Then of the 1/4 chances there needs to be a truly goated treasure spawn, and the island crates can't be too far away, and the sheep become an afterthought. After spawning plymouth hundreds of times and extrapolating I probably rate this spawn a 1/1000 chance. With 300f in treasures, you can click up to II the moment your TC finishes building. It's necessary.

I send 3 vills forward to collect a treasure and also collect the AI's crates. I select Dutch as the AI because coin is the limiting res to get to III. I have the AI on Extreme difficulty so that when I attack his vills, they attack back, giving me more time to gather their crates (break-through optimization, this does not occur on sandbox). I need the AI on Extreme difficulty not just Moderate or Hard because they age to II the fastest, which means I can collect the 200c from their age up before I click to III myself.

The harder the AI, the faster their TC builds. I have to pull trick my villagers to reach their TC in time.

I really wanted my name in the annals with aklaak, aiz, etc., even though aklaak, aiz and etc. didn't participate. It's not ez having a conscience, but I believe that justice will be seen thru some day, and of my moral purity I'll be recognized as a beacon amidst a cast of bankrupt heathens -- I can hear heaven sing. I shall ascend a prophet of G.
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Well done @deleted_user4 that is a great effort, i had the AI set to moderate i think so i was able to catch the age 1 coin crates from Maurice TC being completed. also punching the pilgrims and then the 6 settlers produced allowed me to get the res, (as well as their settlers gathering much more slowly on the crates). Setting the AI to extreme to capitalise on AI bugs and then get the extra 200c on his age up is a big brain play i had not though of so kudos for that.

This creates the question of if opponent ages to age 2 then what civ gives best combo of crates in age 1, possible age 1 shipment and age 2.

I ran into XP issues as well but you have also worked out that the settlers moving across the map can pick the treasure en route and so can get an extra 40/50xp if you go for 2 treasures (but you had to get to his TC fast as he was playing as extreme). If you can find and snipe the dutch explorer as he tries and takes a treasure then that solved the XP issue outright.

Looked like you got unlucky with the sheep spawn i liked to have the 2 dock vills eat 2 sheep while waiting for the boat.

Btw you do know you can delete the turkey for an extra 100f? so you only need 200f in treasures of very early sheep kills to get that age 2 in queue as soon as the TC is built. You save 100w by not build the 3rd house, you just delete all vils before batch is completed.

No idea how you managed to do this with no market, as you can sell off all that extra food from the treasures and sheep etc.

Unfortunately there is another map that the challenge can be run on which involves 0 skill 0 micro 0 luck so this wont be a winning time :( I think i only was a couple seconds faster on plymouth but i lost the recorded game from that due to change of patch.

I still want to say that doing that on normal speed is very very impressive i couldn't do that.
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Ah, so the winter map is even better? It is good that I gave up then.

I had no idea you could eat the intrepid turkey. This would of course violate my moral purity as I love my intrepid turkey scout. Tbh I didn't even thunk of deleting all vills. Perhaps my heart is too whole for thish.
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yeah i asked noel to ban it, well kind of, i juust said are we allowing this meme map and he said yes once looked at it.

Ive giving a few people some tips but they all said that they werent interested in actually going for a time so we will see who else has given this a go. I'm just hoping that my big mouth hasnt blabbered the answer away yet
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Yeah I did same shit, spawning the map until you get the right crates, right treasures, and the goats, and slow speed for better macro. Steal comp's crates, get 1 boat to ferry on the island, sell food for coin in market cause you don't need that much food with goats. Age with 500f, click up without 700g, and use it for falc prod instead, ship 2 falcs and that's it. Delete all vils to save a house.

Pretty tedious exercise, I did 4:23 and then stopped cause I had to do real life stuff. Could never be bothered to spawn the map again until you get a golden spawn + try it 10 times in a row to be 2 sec faster.

I think for next events it would be nice to have more restrictions regarding the maps and stealing AI crates and shit. And maybe a challenge where it's less clear which civ to pick / what BO to do, so we see some variety. I think the 100k gold thing was a better challenge for that reason.
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Yea the challenge should be who can come up with a good bo and execute it best not who can spawn the map for 8 hours straight
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Haha why did I even bother submitting my 6:08 :lol: Not even on this planet. Did not know that island had crates!
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I still wonder how I_HaRRiiSoN_I managed to reach the 100k challenge in 21:38. which map / civ / strategy did you use

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