Post by melisgl on Oct 25, 2019 16:41:04 GMT -5
Start a new ironman run (not NG+), speed through the missions without deaths while collecting all secondaries killing lots of xeno and win. If you only manage to achieve some of this, you may not win after all, but see Scoring below. The winner is the squad with the highest score (*not* the leaderboard score) having just completed the Hive Mind mission. Actually, runs ending before the Hive Mind can be scored too, but they are unlikely to be very competitive.
The scoring is designed to give as much freedom as possible on how to assemble squads, to heavily penalize deaths and slowness.
When reporting a score, include the Captain's experience, the number of dead and the total number of turns played.
Prizes are yet to be determined.
Cheers,
Gábor
PS: Skipping the tutorial is suboptimal. Don't.
Scoring
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C: captain's current exp (as displayed in the list of veterans)
D: number of dead (in the list of veterans filter for the dead)
T: total number of turns (as displayed in the Records)
Score = C - 165 * D - 165/38 * T
- Every death is roughly like losing one mission's worth of experience.
- Finishing missions 1 turn faster on average over the course of the first 38 missions of the campaign is like gaining one mission's worth of score. The 38 comes from counting the missions up to but not including Stratos, including the tutorial.
- All other factors such as kill rates and secondaries factor only indirectly in the score through their effect on experience.
So with C=6000 XP, D=1 deaths, T=600 turns, the score is 3229.7368.
It's the same score with D=0, T=600+38 and D=2, T=600-38.
The scoring is designed to give as much freedom as possible on how to assemble squads, to heavily penalize deaths and slowness.
When reporting a score, include the Captain's experience, the number of dead and the total number of turns played.
Prizes are yet to be determined.
Cheers,
Gábor
PS: Skipping the tutorial is suboptimal. Don't.
Scoring
-------
C: captain's current exp (as displayed in the list of veterans)
D: number of dead (in the list of veterans filter for the dead)
T: total number of turns (as displayed in the Records)
Score = C - 165 * D - 165/38 * T
- Every death is roughly like losing one mission's worth of experience.
- Finishing missions 1 turn faster on average over the course of the first 38 missions of the campaign is like gaining one mission's worth of score. The 38 comes from counting the missions up to but not including Stratos, including the tutorial.
- All other factors such as kill rates and secondaries factor only indirectly in the score through their effect on experience.
So with C=6000 XP, D=1 deaths, T=600 turns, the score is 3229.7368.
It's the same score with D=0, T=600+38 and D=2, T=600-38.
