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Post by sparda4 on Apr 5, 2018 22:01:38 GMT -5
So i have this idea. We make the toughest meanest most unforgiving map seeds we can come up with. And then using said map seed we play towards a certain faction. To get as high as possible in let's say 5-10 years in game time.
How do you guys like it would you do it ?
And let's keep it inside the Forum/Discord circle. This is just a little fun for us.
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Post by fallen on Apr 5, 2018 22:04:01 GMT -5
Sounds awesome to me! I love the pick a faction and play for them in a timeline.
Just using leaderboard score, or some other metric?
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Post by sparda4 on Apr 5, 2018 22:06:25 GMT -5
Other metric. Like take the faction points. How much you had. At the end. Or People can go into even teams and add up their scores. Something like that. Ask Cory he planted most of the idea in my head. On stream.
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Post by Aimstrong on Apr 6, 2018 0:55:11 GMT -5
In order to measure the same thing, it’s better to have challenge maps for 1 given faction to max one /multiple aspect of game(e.g. XP, money, rep etc). 100% behind this.
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Post by sparda4 on Apr 6, 2018 2:56:37 GMT -5
Yes it would be one faction you have to gain rep for but it wouldn't be the "strongest" That would make rep gain too easy. I would use faction reputation as the mesurment on these maps. And that would be the whole challange. Get the most points with a faction that isn't easy to work for.
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Post by En1gma on Apr 6, 2018 5:54:05 GMT -5
I'm down. I have a ton of map seeds, want me to look for an awful one?
What am I looking for in a seed? Poor layout? Hard starting zones?
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Post by LordofSyn on Apr 6, 2018 7:14:43 GMT -5
I'm down. I have a ton of map seeds, want me to look for an awful one? What am I looking for in a seed? Poor layout? Hard starting zones? A hat embargo? |
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Post by athios on Apr 6, 2018 12:15:46 GMT -5
Ooooh, a good 'ole community challenge like the ones from STRPG? I'm totally in. If you deliberately want to make it ridiculously difficult, then you'd have to pick Templar as the Faction. You have to play and play until you find a Templar Contact that offers Missions or buys Intel, then work for them. Not sure many people would sign up for that though, LOL...  |
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Post by sparda4 on Apr 6, 2018 14:26:48 GMT -5
En1gma EVERYTHING that makes it awful and hard. Lots of wild zones low everything on as many planet as possible. As few planets that you can land on to refuel. Ect. Basically do your worst.
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Post by sparda4 on Apr 6, 2018 16:09:37 GMT -5
Addendum 3 at the bottom please readAlright. En1gma was kind enough to generate two TERRIBLE map seeds for you all. And i want to thank him a lot for them. Map seed 1  Map seed 2  Now the rules i thought of. Gain as much faction reputation as possible with the selected faction for map seed 1 or 2, with any class except Explorer in 10 in game years in any way. For map seed 1 you can choose between Rychart and De Valtos For map seed 2 you can choose between Zenrin and Moklumnue Now this last part falls onto all of you who participate in this. Do you want this challenge to be an induvidual score system or do you want to join teams ? So team Moklumnue vs team Zenrin and Team Rychart vs Team De Valtos. This last part is all up to you guys. Addendum: If you guys choose team. All of your scores are added up. Addendum 2: I know i don't have to ask. But i will anyways. No explorers what so ever. Even crew. The challenge lasts two weeks. So you got time to max your rep as much as possible. Addendum 3: Since a few people who are taking part are running impossible i would ask the ones who wish to take part also do it on impossible. Now this goes against what i say on the next page. But to make it an even playing field. Please if you aren't already,start on impossible. And if you fail that's fine. Just get as much rep until the end of the challenge. And that is for 6 days more.
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Post by Zer0Winds on Apr 6, 2018 16:21:11 GMT -5
I'll participate sure. Kinda like the team idea, if it's balanced.
Though just throwing it out there: Rychart on Map Seed One.
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Post by drspendlove on Apr 6, 2018 17:47:17 GMT -5
I'm not opposed to the rule, but why no explorers?
Also, what difficulty?
Finally, am I supposed to have a better way to enter the seed than manually inspecting it, typing it up, copying it to my copy-paste buffer and then CTRL-V'ing it into the game?
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Post by LordofSyn on Apr 6, 2018 17:54:29 GMT -5
I'm not opposed to the rule, but why no explorers? Also, what difficulty? Finally, am I supposed to have a better way to enter the seed than manually inspecting it, typing it up, copying it to my copy-paste buffer and then CTRL-V'ing it into the game? I believe these maps have a lot of wilderness zones and backwater quadrants. I have not looked at them yet. Any Explorer will eventually have an advantage in a map dominated by wilderness zones. Does that mean Exo-scouts are banned too? |
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Post by Zer0Winds on Apr 6, 2018 19:44:10 GMT -5
I'm not opposed to the rule, but why no explorers? Also, what difficulty? Finally, am I supposed to have a better way to enter the seed than manually inspecting it, typing it up, copying it to my copy-paste buffer and then CTRL-V'ing it into the game? I believe these maps have a lot of wilderness zones and backwater quadrants. I have not looked at them yet. Any Explorer will eventually have an advantage in a map dominated by wilderness zones. Does that mean Exo-scouts are banned too? ESPECIALLY Javat |
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Post by En1gma on Apr 6, 2018 21:19:48 GMT -5
So far so good, Rychart Mer/Dip/Spy on impossible (first seed 12-14-377). Proven my charter and working my first diplomatic tour. 60k in the bank and dodging faction attention...
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