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Im so proud of you
<3
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@Lieutenant_Kettch

we have 5 gens, vote for FD :D
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I'm in a similar situation right now as well.

I had a hero get injured in Melee 1 on my last run.

Melee 1.

There were 14 enemy arty. There were a total of 34 (30 + 3 + 1) targets for the arty to aim for. There was no cav damage because my hero was holding a pike.

AND STILL he got injured in melee 1.

I am shocked at how badly my injury luck has been going. :/

But just the same we should be ready to start moving in the morning.

I'm going to say around 9 AM PST, Noon EST we should be able to start moving.
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iiicon posted...

Well this event is popular everywhere and it's midnight in Virginia.

What's the weather like in Virginia right now? Crowds seemed a bit light from what I saw today.

Its east coast so i assume its quite cold?
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

watching attempts is awesome!

you definitely have to like repetitiveness, though.

There was a period years ago where Cosmo was practicing wind waker for 12+ hours a day. There was a 16+ hour session that i actually sat through from beginning to end and it was very enjoyable. It was probably only my main screen for about half of the time, but even when it wasn't my main focus it was fun to be a part of the runs.
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Ive read this topic but haven't started to play yet. Nothing makes sense.
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F zero is an amazing game for speed running But there seemed to be more than a few lives lost on 2nd and 3rd laps. I didn't see what the final time was though
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....so I reached 4800~ XP on my first run before i had to stop for gold reasons. I felt like my heal luck was bad though, so this could have kept going with better luck.

So I pick up from there. I reach Cap*** pretty easily, and am sailing pretty smoothly a couple hundred XP later. And then around 6300 XP I get completely F***ed over.

9 injury battle. At full army. I can't see a single conceivable reason for it, except that there was an enemy hero. He was only level 8 so he can't have had a banner, but maybe he had 30+ leadership? And so maybe they had the initiative?

It was complete garbage so I flatlined from there, stalling out at 6500 XP.

Now i have to wait ANOTHER 4 ticks to train again, and with only 15,000 gold it's not a guarantee that i'll be able to reach Gen.

If it actually takes me more than 3 runs to hit Gen* I'm going to be pretty upset.

Correction, I'm going to be MORE upset, because I'm already pretty upset at that 9 injury battle. Utterly absurd.
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Slots should open soonish at any rate.
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I ran out of steam at cap**, but my heal luck was pretty bad. Im hoping ill reach gen* on my 2nd run.
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Lieutenant Kettch posted...

What do you think about early templar training FD? Just normal buy/promote/dismiss, or do you think a healing strat could work?

I'm a bit worried about their high wage/low str. Meaning things will cost more and we'll have less battles to earn gold. So I'm thinking the safer b/p/d strat is probably the one to go with.

Hard to say. Im thinking app only until you have 29+ then promote from there.
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41 minutes to age start.

Join france.

If france is full join england or holy roman empire.

If you have to join a back up just slack until the country is killed and join france after.
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MajinZidane posted...

age starts in one hour, what do I need to do?

Join france as soon as it starts.

Fast train to gen* with templars. If you aren't sure how to do that i can offer detailed advice once church is out. Or you can ask sytha or kettch on the discord server. (there should be a link in this topic somewhere)
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I have trouble believing spike is being cringey unless he's doing it on purpose.

Ill have to watch later, heading to church now.
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CeraSeptem posted...

I do not personally enjoy this game, but your success is pretty dope

Sorry to hear that, but noted!

HanOfTheNekos posted...

That's in the middle of the Bills game.

I will join, but I'm a little worried because school starts back up and I have no idea how available I will be during that.

That is A-OK. In theory this age should require the least amount of continual attention once we get rolling.
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@XIII_rocks

My availability will largely be from around 9 AM to 2 PM PST on any weekday.

Are there any days that would work for you?
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If I'm mentioning you in one of these posts, read the above large post pls!

^^It's up there^^

@agesboy
@chocoboslayer
@ChaosTonyV4

And if you are tired of me @ 'ing you every few weeks then let me know and i'll take you off my mailing list.

(Except for Articuno. Deal with it =P )

Again, the age begins in less than 10.5 hours. That's 11:30 AM PST. 2:30 PM EST.

AND OUR COUNTRY TO JOIN IS FRANCE.

So join france! Hope to see you there!
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If I'm mentioning you in one of these posts, read the above large post pls!

^^It's up there^^

@MajinZidane
@KommunistKoala
@Paratroopa1
@CeraSeptem
@Colegreen_c12
@MariaTaylor
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Attention Board 8 Potential TLK Players:

We just finished an age where we tried the unique strategy of running a country that was almost entirely cavalry. This was one of our final drops of the age so you can see about how it played out:



They weren't all quite that dominant, but we won a lot of drops last age. And as a result of our efforts we finished in 1st! Participating from board 8 was myself, Sytha, Kettch, Tom Bombadil and hockeydude, but we had a lot of participation from other TLK regulars. We created a movement that was taken up by those around us, and with the exception of 1 poor day we had stellar teamwork and participation.

But now that age is over, and the next age is approaching. We have another unique strategy to attempt, and I'm particularly excited about this one. In short, we try an age with no main army. Once everyone is done with the initial ranking, we break into groups of 2-4 players, and we just go. Every group going in different directions. Going wherever they feel like going. Starting wars against whoever happens to be in the way. By dispersing our players in this fashion we should be able to grab a ridiculous amount of land while everyone else is focused with their own things. Additionally we should be next to impossible to finish off. Even if they manage to chase down 1 group of runners, there will (in theory) be 5+ other groups on the other side of the world still going.

So ideally when you are forming a buddy group to travel the world with, you want to pick players who will be active for similar hours as yourself. For example I should be able to commit to being able to move from 8 AM PST to around midnight or 1 AM PST just about every day. Even on days where I have work, I only need to show up briefly every 3 ticks so my group can take 3 cities, and go idle again for another 90 minutes.

My suggestions will be to get:

A lot of healing so we can flawless mediums with 2-3 players and larges with 3-4. I don't want to see any groups larger than 4, and even that is pushing it. I think if there is a group of 4 then at least 1 of them should have a pvp army.

A lot of merchant so we can afford to replace dead soldiers. Our enemies will eventually catch some of us. Another downside of this strategy is that there will be hours every night where we are asleep and we wont have the benefit of a main army to keep us out of harms way. And so we get kicked, but then we crack open our piggy banks and buy more tier 3 soldiers and get back on the road.

A lot of trainer. This goes hand in hand with merchant. I'm honestly not very keen on Trainer since the changes they made to it, but when we get caught we will likely take dead units. (Unless we are online when we get caught and we can train down before getting kicked). And when we replace those dead units having a high trainer will allow us to get them back to Vet and Mst tier 3 units more quickly.

This will be an age unlike any other so there isn't a "best" strategy for how to equip your heroes for it, but my focus would be on those 3. The dueling skills will take a back seat unless you plan to use your buddy group to seek out pvp against unsuspecting countries. Because we will be at war with everyone, the chance does exist that you could be in a group that finds itself next to mains that are failing against each other.

So with that said, let's get people excited!

The new age starts in a little less than 10.5 hours from right now. It starts at 11:30 AM PST. 2:30 PM EST. If you live somewhere else then do the math.

@HanOfTheNekos
@Arti
@Lieutenant_Kettch
@hockeydude15
@SythaWarrior
@ProfitProphet
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Im assuming on 7% its possible to loop to gen*. Should be 10x faster than horde riders were.
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Well its going to be on the final day of the marathon so they have some time to figure out the details.
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So the map is decided. It seems like virtually the same countries as last Europe.

As far as templars go we have England or France or Holy Roman Empire.

England bonuses are:
7% plains
6% forest
0% desert
-6% snow
-7% mountains

France:
7% plains
3% forest
0% mountains
-5% snow
-5% desert

Holy Roman Empire:
7% forest
5% plains
-2% snow
-5% desert
-6% mountains

Of those im leaning France. It still has a 7% terrain available but has better bad terrains.
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Nope
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What did you win.
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The stock market is doing great. What does that do for me and the 17-18k i made last year? (before taxes, mind)
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HaRRicH posted...

Bumping because I bet a lot of people were like me and didn't realize he just dropped two new specials.

This is me. I know what im watching tomorrow
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Yes,a rom is randomized based on a specific seed and is distributed so they are all doing the same instance.

And typically for something big like this a neutral non racing player will hop into the randomized rom first just to make sure its not like worst possible rng. But none of the racers would be given any information from that.
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And we had a dominant day today which seals our first place finish :)

We also had this as a late age main drop:



Whic is pretty incredible.
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Yeah that was fun to wake up to.

We just gotta not be dumb for less than 24 hours.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Grand Kirby posted...

Do Pokemon speedruns really need MORE randomness?

Yeah they do, actually

It's really boring to follow a plan in a Pokemon speedrun but it's pretty interesting when you need to piece one together on the fly

10,000% this. For a game like Pokemon there is legitimately more "skill" involved with randomisers. Its not the kind of game where the inputs are difficult and so with a static route there is not much beyond rote memorization of a single set of steps. With Pokemon randomisers you have to understand a lot more of the games mechanics and be able to apply that as you go in scenarios that could flip the script on you.

But Im telling you para. Lets do bi weekly races or something and submit next year. Im not good at speed running much, but Pokemon randomisers i can do.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

I'm still very excited though, I don't care about LttP randomizer BUT it may open the door for other randomizers in the future, which is a quickly-growing subset of the community and I think would inject a lot of life into GDQ

Yess. Id love a Pokemon red/blue randomizer for instance.
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7:40 AMSecret of EvermoreMetaSigma

Yessss. I love this game. Didn't even notice it on the list on my first glance. This game has so much charm and hilarious writing.
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This sounds like a Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
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Will there be any B8ers in attendance this year?

@Paratroopa1
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So she is Phoebe from Friends.
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I didnt see a topic yet and the marathon is nearly upon us!

Schedule: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

We open with a crash 3 any% run and close with a 4 hour "all quests" run of Breath of the Wild.

Also LttP randomizer has a pretty nice time slot on the final day which is pretty hype. There seem to be a lot of quality runs to look forward to this year.
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Im trying to get back on track but certain planners have made life difficult.

Might not be super easy to hold onto 1st for 2 more days at this rate.
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And rolling?
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ExThaNemesis posted...

FFDragon

Close enough
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Chau fail dropped us. They practically flawless themselves.

So we sf most of their main so they have to rebuild again.

Then gs fail dropped us too. That onec was closer at least.

Life is good for our Uyghur cav main.
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And tibet! (ages ago)

We are working on chau now
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We defeated tangut!
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HaRRicH posted...

More generally about these hurricanes: Mexico has offered aide to the US at one point. After they suffered an earthquake in their capital and Hurricane Katia though, they saw Donald did not send so much as any condolences...so the aide was rescinded to help themselves. Donald then later blamed Mexicos cell phone reception for the lack of contact

lol what. I missed this one.
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Nvm. Slot 12 came and went. Yukon got ours which is nice but killerlady got tangut which is not as good.

Do we have anyone waiting for slot 13?
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

The 11th slot in Uyghur and Tangut should be close to opening. Most countries have 8+ already.

Slot 11 in uyghur and tangut got filled by b8ers. Nice.

Slot 12 should be a little while away yet.
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Also following the method above it took me about 3.5 hours and 1700+ battles to hit Gen* from Private.

I had over 800k gold upon reaching Gen* and i was never in danger of not looping.

It was simultaneously absurdly easy in that it is such a safe way to train up and absurdly difficult in that you have to click so many times. Especially after Cap* you take injuries more frequently so you are often stopping at the hospital between battles. You can more than afford it but its extra clicks just the same.
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The 11th slot in Uyghur and Tangut should be close to opening. Most countries have 8+ already.
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Gogogo
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Also its possible they did a 24.5 hour break this time instead. So the age might be starting in 32 minutes instead of 2 min.

Dammit Nuvelle
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If you aren't sure which unit to get i strongly recommend Mangudai.

Thats what ill be going anyways.
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