Gem Tower Defense

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lement - 2018-12-10, 09:30 AM

lement - 2018-12-10, 02:11 AM

WGW - 2018-12-09, 10:50 PM

WGW - 2018-12-09, 10:49 PM

lement - 2018-12-09, 03:55 AM

With the reset, went ahead to try to 195 with the stunners in corner strat, revisiting and improving a maze I had mothballed before as too slow to complete....I think I died around 112 (if it doesn't show up, need to enable js when playing I guess). Autoclicker got stored in swap space due lack of RAM as I had browsed elsewhere in the meantime, and by the time it unfroze flyers had already passed. Alas, while I had noticed the issue before I figured I was completely safe, so only have plan remaining https://i.imgur.com/qFGE8de.png :(

The run did raise interesting questions though:

1) At what point does the unupgraded Blood Stone lose to upgraded version? For now, I used first for spiraling places with others in edge/stunlock places.

2) Provided there's already one present in area, should one pick Egyptian gold over Blood stone in the stunlock situation? (Borne out of the assumption that the flame of the flame strike doesn't get bonus from damage boosts.)

At a point around 102, I first came to a situation where I ditched a perfect emerald - due lack of room where it'd be safe to place dark emeralds (lucky? run on that front).

At the point I died, I had 1 ABS/1 EG/1 paraiba/2 silvers/3 jade ...and the rest emeralds (all set but for 3 perfects yet combined into), so 12(+3). (extra silver and jades being forced by picks). It certainly pointed out using longer-range gems for edges to catch more passes....

So,

3) How many dark emeralds do I really need in the corner? I recall WGW screenshots using 7 DE+5 jade before, while being more airy. (Also, what's the balance point of air vs extra gems?)

(Though I leaked ground recently with a different, worse maze recently.)

4) With the rest being damage is the obvious approach, how much value is there in intentionally rushing/holding jades before placing first of main 3 specials to boost gold gathering for leaking ground troops in later waves?

(I know aznist speaks in favour of not giving up jades in favour of main 3 during air waves, but there's easily enough gold to afford that if not blowing avg 332 picks on getting great opal, albeit jades can get 2 passes in some positions where DEs get only 1.)

5) Once the corner is filled, what should be used as addendum to EG/(A)BS? I think WGW went for Paraiba coverage with great pink diamonds in the gaps, looking at one old shot. Uranium seems like a good possibility as well.

The diamond, btw, seems potentially superior to additional egypts on the edge even inside the corner, btw, due 554 DPS with 7 greater range - would have caught the last pass on outer ring from the leftmost edge better. And of course, they'd meant greater choice of picks until gold picks up.

6) On downleft runs, seems it might be potentially worth risking it to place emerald in lower left quadrant, as to make it keep hitting the nearby stunned gems.

7) Remind me again, how did you scroll long gem descriptions/jump ahead waves in sandbox mode ^^;;?

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@Nohadou: I like to upgrade malachite first, then stall with chipped by getting components for star ruby/silver in hopes of rolling lucky on the ~18% of getting another special pick, then upgrade past 50 or even 80 in one go, aiming for getting jade up ideally for wave 12-13 (getting it earlier is possible but doesn't always survive 12th air wave then), then maxed. For wave 20, if I'm doing downleft corner strat I find having maxed malachite + no rose quartz more effective than maxed out rose quartz, which allows some additional freedom with picking, and having neither isn't conductive to survival without getting quartz and at least one good perfect.

I've gotten past 32 without rose quartz at least once on a quite lucky run before, though that was aided by central silver and four+ lucky pics.

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On the browser issues, might be worth using a dedicated one. I used a local copy until recently (which stopped loading when fox updated (and my chrome no longer has flash), but otoh it doesn't burn up computer when minimized now :) ) You can currently still get firefox 52 ESR, i.e. before they revamped their engine (which I overall like, once I got auto tab discard, despite losing/weakening extensions).

WGW - 2018-12-08, 09:24 PM

WGW - 2018-12-08, 06:02 AM

WGW - 2018-12-08, 06:01 AM

g - 2018-12-07, 04:07 PM

WGW - 2018-12-07, 04:38 AM

g - 2018-12-02, 10:34 AM

WGW - 2018-12-01, 12:47 AM

g - 2018-11-29, 02:25 PM

WGW - 2018-11-25, 02:47 AM

noname - 2018-11-24, 06:01 AM

g - 2018-11-23, 05:23 PM

WGW - 2018-11-20, 04:06 PM

Good to see you, a!  That's a major bummer that you can't speed up the game anymore. . . that's gonna make it next to impossible for you to get past level 195 I sure haven't ever been able to, and I must have played dozens of attempted emerald runs by now without getting past 195. :)  Except each of those attempts takes 10 hours, minimum, at normal speed.  And still no uberstone yet, of course. We've got about two more years left to try before Flash games become totally unplayable.  Time to fill up the newly cleaned high score list. (I *JUST* finished another level 195 game, and after 10+ hours, hit the "submit" button without typing anything, like a complete idiot!)

If you ever do get Cheat Engine working to speed up GTD again, a, please let us know!

Oh, and on the sandbox mode, believe it or not, I spent a fair amount of time trying to play around with the emerald strategy, and I just found it too tedious, the constant repicking.  I think one time I had as many as 30 dark emeralds and still was leaking multiple air troops at level 195+ (would have helped if I had a great opal, but I didn't feel like repicking hundreds of times to get one), so I just gave up. I accept humbly that I may never get past level 195.  :)

a - 2018-11-20, 10:33 AM

a - 2018-11-20, 10:31 AM

WGW - 2018-11-20, 01:39 AM

g - 2018-11-19, 09:44 AM

WGW - 2018-11-16, 11:29 AM

WGW - 2018-11-16, 11:27 AM

Peter - 2018-11-14, 12:00 AM

WGaryW - 2018-11-10, 11:18 AM

New high scores still aren't accepted even after fixing whatever was blocking new comments.  I would love to buy the new iPhone version but my phone is too out of date to download ii (and it would seem from "noname"'s comments that it's nor much more bug-free than the prior version that I paid for and ended up never able to play a single game).  I can't say strongly enough that I will support this game in any way I can (as I have in the past by making donations and buying the first non-functional iPhone version).  But as things stand, while it's very nice that we can add comments to the web version again, nothing else works.  Nothing.  C'mon, Peter.  You're clearly a very talented programmer who (a) can do a lot better than this, and (b) isn't out to scam anyone.  So could you please:
(a) Scrub the web version of the bogus high scores once and for all (you did this once before to my great pleasure)
(b) Make the web version capable of logging new high scores again as it used to be for years, and 
(c) Make the iPhone version playable?

I will gladly make another contribution to show how much I appreciate the game and your work on it, but I await some sort of response.  Flash as a platform will be completely dead in just over a year.  It would be SO GREAT if this site was really working again in advance of that.  Thank you!

Brage - 2018-11-08, 08:16 PM

g - 2018-11-06, 10:59 AM

RithyFFG - 2018-11-03, 10:22 AM

RithyFFG - 2018-11-03, 09:53 AM

Hede1HADIT - 2018-11-02, 12:53 PM

noname - 2018-11-02, 10:49 AM

noname - 2018-11-02, 10:48 AM

noname - 2018-11-02, 06:09 AM

Peter - 2018-11-01, 06:15 PM

_mmkay - 2018-10-30, 05:02 PM

g - 2018-10-30, 02:21 PM

Ruby - 2018-10-28, 11:49 PM

Peter - 2018-10-15, 04:22 PM

christoffer - 2018-10-08, 06:26 AM

WGaryW - 2018-10-06, 10:35 AM

Peter - 2018-10-05, 07:16 PM

a - 2017-11-30, 01:08 AM

WGW - 2017-11-29, 02:19 PM

WGW - 2017-11-29, 02:18 PM

WGW - 2017-11-29, 02:11 PM

WGW - 2017-11-29, 02:08 PM

Nohadou - 2017-11-27, 09:29 AM

Nohadou - 2017-11-27, 09:22 AM

WGW - 2017-11-23, 08:55 AM

a - 2017-11-20, 12:42 PM

RGEN - 2017-11-14, 11:48 AM

Nukumaster - 2017-11-13, 07:21 AM

Nohadou - 2017-11-13, 04:04 AM

SForces - 2017-11-10, 10:40 AM

china TD - 2017-10-25, 01:04 AM

a - 2017-10-20, 10:58 AM

Nohadou - 2017-10-20, 03:53 AM

Nukumaster - 2017-10-19, 09:46 PM

Nohadou - 2017-10-18, 02:02 AM

Nukumaster - 2017-10-17, 07:41 PM

Nohadou - 2017-10-16, 08:48 AM

Brage - 2017-09-25, 06:31 PM

Nukumaster - 2017-09-16, 04:57 PM

a - 2017-09-08, 10:57 AM

MaryaLah - 2017-08-19, 05:29 PM

Nukumaster - 2017-08-13, 01:16 PM

WGW - 2017-08-11, 02:37 PM

Nukumaster - 2017-08-08, 04:34 PM

WGW - 2017-08-07, 02:13 AM

WGW - 2017-08-07, 02:11 AM

Carolynvag - 2017-08-06, 12:42 AM

Carolynvag - 2017-08-05, 07:12 PM

Carolynvag - 2017-08-05, 03:10 AM

Carolynvag - 2017-08-04, 09:48 PM

BigLighthouse - 2017-08-04, 07:51 AM

RobertVogma - 2017-07-31, 11:22 PM

MichaeljeF - 2017-07-26, 10:27 PM

Flossierab - 2017-07-25, 04:06 PM

Flossierab - 2017-07-25, 10:45 AM

MichaeljeF - 2017-07-25, 06:33 AM

WGW - 2017-07-04, 12:21 PM

Whoopass Express - 2017-06-30, 02:41 PM

Charleswrobe - 2017-06-29, 03:17 PM

allex_on - 2017-06-23, 03:26 PM

Big Lighthouse - 2017-06-22, 07:22 AM

Nukumaster - 2017-06-19, 08:57 AM

fdas - 2017-06-06, 09:30 AM

RGEN - 2017-06-05, 01:42 PM

Oleg - 2017-05-21, 03:02 AM

licki - 2017-05-10, 10:17 PM

licki - 2017-05-10, 08:49 PM

pete - 2017-05-03, 11:28 AM

Neo - 2017-04-27, 05:56 PM

Brian - 2017-04-27, 04:44 AM

WGW - 2017-04-23, 03:40 PM

Well, no one is more aware than I am how absurd it is that I'm even still *playing* this game after all these years, but that said, I've actually just figured a new variation to my usual strategy that considerably cuts down time.  Basically, it boils down to intentionally leaking ground troops as much as can be afforded gold-wise, because letting them escape is far faster than winding them through the maze to kill them.  So I alternated between levels of letting them escape (which takes about 45 seconds), with levels where I had to close the maze back up to force the ground troups to the lower left where I keep all the jades, in order to build gold back up (killing all the ground troops, with a proper maze boosted by a great opal, takes about 160-180 seconds).  And then I blew it on level 183-- miscalculated how much gold I needed.  But I expect to keep using this plan-- it does cut down playing time by about 30%, which is quite a lot when games take 20 hours to finish!  I've pretty much given up all hope of ever replicating aznist's brilliant emerald strategy, the only person to ever past level 195 legitimately.  :)

WGW - 2017-04-14, 07:50 AM

WGW - 2017-04-14, 07:46 AM

a - 2017-04-10, 09:24 AM

sheepy - 2017-03-24, 02:05 PM