Comments on: New Online Score World Record by PurpleRed

By: hobgoblin

hobgoblin — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:51:07 +0000

i would love to watch a video of that run. amazing!

By: Sandman25

Sandman25 — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:49:43 +0000

Evoking a ring of teleportation costs some MP so I think it is worse for characters who rely on MP for killing things

By: PurpleRed

PurpleRed — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 11:29:44 +0000

Charly, yes you are right, my comment wasn’t serious. Mostly my comment was for Gammafunks benefit, for as you might have picked up, we both have history (and unfinished business) running Elves.

As for the balance between melee and caster for speed running, I’m not sure. The set of tools I used to replace rtele certainly call for a caster, but melee based variations are undoubtedly possible.

By: gammafunk

gammafunk — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:04:34 +0000

dpeg, you’re right about the negative turn difference, which I could have talked about, but I didn’t want to write too much more detail.

PurpleRed, like you I always believed in elves. Just not my elves that missed taking back HE score from you (sometimes by mere hundreds of turns!) But PurpleRed elves we surely can all believe in :)

Charly, you may be right about the tele working the same way fundamentally, but squishy casters are a lot less happy to randomly teleport next to nasty things. Perhaps using some statue form (possibly dropping form if the tele lands safely) would make that less bad for a mage, though.

By: Charly

Charly — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:50:48 +0000

How is infinite tele different on caster? It was mostly used in extended to boost exploration efficiency, and as far as I know works the same way on every build.
Anyway, congrats on an amazing win, I still think melee to superior to caster in terms of turncount speedrunning, which makes this score even more impressive.
One last thing, 4.8 k for extended and ascension without passive mapping and random tele spam is just surreal…
18k incomming.

By: bwDraco - Brian Wong

bwDraco - Brian Wong — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:18:37 +0000

Wow. That shows just how high a skill ceiling this game is, and it’s what keeps me coming, even though I’ve never even managed to get one rune in any non-test game!

I love games that give me a lot of room to grow.

By: PurpleRed

PurpleRed — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:34:13 +0000

You are too kind Gamma. Thanks to the devs for silencing the lies of melee by removing infi-tele and thus guiding the faithful back to the truth of Elves.

Ps. According to Chequers the incomplete game is a bugged sprint game that needs to be scrubbed.

By: dpeg

dpeg — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:26:03 +0000

Amazing!

About the ranking: what is that not-won game leading the list? And note that Sapher’s game was in fact two turns shorter than PurpleRed’s!