Renowned Explorers: International Society

Renowned Explorers: International Society

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AbbeyManuel  [producent] 13 lipca 2016 o 11:40
#Challenge 33: Don't Go Too Far!
------------- UPDATED WITH RESULTS -------------
Challenge #33, we're at 1/3rd of a 100 :D ...

The Story
Lady Vaduva is still acting in chairman Pinkerton's place. "Apparently people don't forget us in a week's time. However nice that is for the concept of never-fading fame, this does mean we'll have to lay low for another week. Don't go all out just yet, and choose your expeditions without too much ambition." Harry looked sad, because he was really looking forward to investigate the rumours around Lost Island. Pedrinho saw it. "Don't worry, Harry, I have a plan!"

"BOOOOM!" Vaduva looked at Earl's newest ex-invention un-impressed. "Just another rule. Engineers are excluded from captaincy."


The Rules
- The sum of all your expeditions' levels/stars should be at most 12. For example a valid sequence would be: Level 1, 2, 3, 2, 4. (sum is 12)
- As a Special rule the Mali Mystery cannot be chosen as your 4th or 5th expedition.*
- Your captain may not be a natural Engineer (i.e. your captain may not be able to obtain Engineer perks through their leveling tree).
*Weekly challenges are for your creativity, so I don't want to force you to repeat Crystal Cave runs ;)

- Your score is your Renown.
- Play on Adventure Mode.
- Play on any Difficulty.

The Goals
BRONZE: 1,500 Renown (1 Medal Points*)
SILVER: 3,000 Renown (2 MP*)
GOLD: 6,000 Renown (3 MP*)
PLATINUM: 9,000 Renown** (No losing)
* Number of medal points awarded when playing on Classic Difficulty. Easy and Normal give less, according to these rules.
** The platinum medal is extraordinary and can only be achieved on Classic or Impossible difficulty. It doesn't increase Medal Points, but we will track how many you have.

STORY MEDAL: Some travel plans will be impeded. Can the crewmembers fulfill their dreams of exotic wealth and fame? Or is someone missing out on their favorite destination. Will Rivaleux be able top keep to this?

We're keeping track of all the medals you gained in the Hall of Fame.

How to participate
You can participate with a highscore, a story or both.

Stories
  1. Write a story. Use the Challenge theme as an inspiration by looking at the constraints. Find other stories in the Fan Story directory or by looking at previous challenges.
  2. Post your story in a new topic in these forums.
  3. Link to it here with a comment.
  4. Include the first paragraph/few lines of your story in the post to show readers what your story is about.

Highscores
  1. Play the game according to the challenge rules.
  2. Post a screenshot of your Win screen (that is the screen right after the win ceremony) in this topic.*
  3. Submit by Wednesday, July 20th, 12:00 noon CEST / 05:00 CT. (Check your timezone here[www.worldtimebuddy.com])
*If you forget to screenshot the Win screen, you can also enter with a screenshot of your Leaderboards: Go to Main Menu > Leaderboards > Local > click the entry that matches your submission game > screenshot those details.

Previous Challenge: Challenge #32 - Laying Low
Ostatnio edytowany przez: AbbeyManuel; 21 lipca 2016 o 2:28
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727496013

Took me all week to get a run in this time around. My theme this time around was "Hatice is the real captain, recruited Harry to act in her stead in exchange for taking him to the Lost Island". Worked decently. She got all the bonuses to rolls and insight spending, and by the end of it I was making bank. Full Legendary with a few thousand left to spare.

I've got a story in mind, let's see if I can actually find the time to write it...
Flamestalker 19 lipca 2016 o 14:01 
Here's my entry for this week. I used Jan-Piet again with the goal to perfect my insight strategy on him that I used several weeks ago, I can safely say that it succeeded. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727688012

What do you get when you combine Jan-Piet's captain bonus, with Hatice's storycard, with Victor's tactical insight card, with the Songhai Sword, with Lecture Expert, with Tales of the Wild, with the Origin of Species II ? An unimaginable amount of tokens and resources!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727545458
Happybeam 19 lipca 2016 o 19:45 
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198044105067/screenshots/

Emilia's story is actually really good, pretty cray! Barely hit that gold medal thanks to her :D
nightscode 19 lipca 2016 o 21:50 
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727941661

Didn't have a win with Hildegard yet. The Maria/Yvonne story card combo's pretty strong and having a bit of science per campaign token doesn't hurt. Mask of Madness for +2 campaign per level of beguiler and the +25% status from campaign from the Portrait really helped out too.
phantasmag 19 lipca 2016 o 22:57 
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=724003718

Thanks for the challenge and continued support!
Makeyejr 20 lipca 2016 o 0:49 
Ostatnio edytowany przez: Makeyejr; 20 lipca 2016 o 0:56
AbbeyManuel  [producent] 20 lipca 2016 o 8:37 
The results for our second week of mediocrity. Spoilers, you were all way too renowned. And as always, welcome to the first-time challengers: Zzyxki, Kaladin's Spear, duncan_forsyth, katherine15, The Crazynuto

Stories
Odd Obsession by Pikminenco. (who also made this incredibly beautiful thing this week)
(excerpt) Harry was really bumbed out that the higher level expeditions were excluded. The lower level ones are all so boring. Luckily, Pedrinho had the perfect solution. ''Don't worry Harry.'' he said. ''There is something that is way more fun and exciting than those low level expeditions.''

Rankings
(Score, Captain, Expedition levels, Name) Platinum 18165 Maria 1-2-2-3-4 Animus 16652 Molly 1-2-2-3-3 ¿Chaos? 13278 Dolores 1-2-2-2-3 Liort 11795 Molly 1-2-2-3-4 PlutoniumRooster 10879 Dolores 1-2-2-2-3 Worblehat 10839 Charles 1-2-3-3-3 Yo 10591 Jan-P. 1-2-2-2-5 Flamestalker 10398 Jan-P. 1-2-2-3-4 peoneill 10093 Agatha 1-2-2-3-4 kcyw 9901 Dolores 1-2-2-3-3 OnlyTwin 9752 Hildeg. 1-2-2-3-4 nightscode 9715 Molly 1-2-2-3-3 Der Erloeser 9588 Pedrin. 1-2-2-3-4 Heart + Soul 9145 Kwame 1-2-2-3-4 Staufen986 [Termination Corp] 9102 Dolores 1-2-2-4-3 dman11235 Gold 8632 Maria 1-2-2-3-4 timfrobisher 8454 Molly 1-2-3-3-3 BlackVision 8305 Molly 1-2-2-2-5 Noah D 7924 Maria 1-2-2-4-3 svertuj 7802 Agatha 1-2-2-3-3 Pikminenco 7681 Charles 1-2-2-3-4 Seneque 7456 Maria 1-2-2-3-4 DarudeSandStorm 7418 Jan-P. 1-2-2-3-4 adambomb 7389 Charles 1-2-3-3-3 Miss Deliria 7265 Hildeg. 1-2-2-3-4 moocowmoocow 7192 Maria 1-2-3-3-3 SpookyCookie 7013 Agatha 1-2-2-2-5 Makeyjr 6870 Agatha 1-2-2-3-4 Ice Empoleon 6380 Ivan 1-2-3-3-3 Aldimbor 6347 Yvonne 1-2-3-4-2 King Gabe 6010 Pedrin. 1-2-2-3-4 Happybeam Silver 5187 Bia 1-2-2-3-4 Izaara 5168 Molly 1-2-3-2-4 Victus Shanks 4985 Harry 1-2-2-2-5 thedarkfiddler 4765 Agatha 1-2-2-3-4 Zzyxki 4730 Molly 1-2-3-3-2 Hero-of-Canton 4620 Agatha 1-2-2-3-4 Kaladin's Spear 4442 Kwame 1-2-3-4-2 duncan_forsyth 4225 Agatha 1-2-2-3-4 katherine15 4149 Hildeg. 1-2-3-2-4 nath 3907 Maria 1-2-3-2-4 Conscript3742 3861 Agatha 1-2-2-3-2 Téödáj da BEARMAGEDDOR 3636 Kwame 1-2-3-2-3 Elise 3394 Emilia 1-2-2-3-4 Agagamemnon 3116 Dolores 1-2-2-3-4 phantasmag[DHZ] Bronze 2844 Molly 1-2-3-2-4 The Crazynuto

There were quite some platinum scorers this time around. I had expected 9000 to be a challenge with a limit on total expedition levels, but apparently all of you shine even in mediocrity. Lady Vaduva is pleased.. she thinks.

Challenge #33 is done. Challenge #34 will be online tomorrow morning (11am CEST). Normally I post the new challenges Wednesday night, but tonight the Abbey is getting lots of visitors from a local game studio incubator[www.dutchgamegarden.nl] (the one that Abbey Games worked inside of for its first two years as well!)

Stats

First of all let's look at the captain stats, which I think are always interesting.

Captains
(Average Score | picks | Captain)
8879 6 Maria 8458 8 Molly 9255 5 Dolores 8636 3 Charles 9469 3 Jan-Piet 6156 8 Agatha 7055 3 Hildegard 7799 2 Pedrinho 5741 3 Kwame 6380 1 Ivan 6347 1 Yvonne 5187 1 Bia 4985 1 Harry 3394 1 Emilia

Expeditions

Here's a quick summary of how many expedition levels people used.

Sum of expedition levels 12 (37) Sum of expedition levels 11 (6) Sum of expedition levels 10 (3)

Apparently not everyone deemed it necessary to use their full 12 levels. Interestingly enough there are 2 level 10's and one level 11 in the top 5 scores!.

For a more interesting view on the expedition levels, scroll through the ranking, which shows the chosen expedition levels and sequence per entrant.

Hopefully see you back tomorrow for our new challenge! In the meanwhile, any thoughts on this week's challenge?
Ostatnio edytowany przez: AbbeyManuel; 20 lipca 2016 o 8:37
*imagines Yo arriving in the Andes with warpaint on, a cannon primed and ready to fire and Agatha's icy glare over the top of the cannon* Incans beware!

Ohh, awesome, hope they like the Abbey :)

Find it rather interesting that so many went for Agatha, considering that she's not known to be a massively high scorer (and it shows in the results too!); and well-done to those scoring so well with the less-loved captains - love seeing underdogs do well!

If I had the patience, would be interested to see comparisons for which campaigns people picked for the last three trips where they have the most freedon alongside their chosen resource - think it could be quite revealing as to which (asides from Mali) are most easy to get good scores from late on.
Ostatnio edytowany przez: The BlackVision; 20 lipca 2016 o 8:51
xploring 20 lipca 2016 o 9:19 
Didn't realize Maria and Jan-Piet are high scoring captains. What made them so good?

Last time we will see such high scores? Rio getting nerfed will probably have a big impact.

Agatha is probably the most versatile character encounter-wise and easy to play with. Not sure who to bring for the third team member? Agatha will work with almost any crew. She has 4 different emotional attack (including 2 AoE). They are all 100% hit chance, even her physical attack! Having written all that, she is probably a little OP for encounters. Her campfire stories and captain bonus are not that good though.
Ostatnio edytowany przez: xploring; 20 lipca 2016 o 9:20
Yo 20 lipca 2016 o 9:29 
I had the food and the legendary stuff this time, now I have slightly burned llama fur to sell. I'll buy Phillipe a present, he's kind of depressed after fighting so hard for nothing. I had enough material to write a story but ... me no speak english good ... or any language.
Oh, Agatha's a great team-member, no doubt about that, just surprised that everyone was picking her as captain! As for encounters, I think it balances out - particulary given that you have to work for her benefits in combat - keeping her from getting jumped on by everything is a challenge!

Think Maria's got a decent captain perk - same as Victors, but she ALSO gets a better campfire card for chalking up tokens, and one that guarentees a bonus beguiler perk on almost everyone it's used on, which can make her useful in a beguiler-stacking team, especially with her own perks. I admit, not necessarily reasons for her to be captain, but she's a decent fill-in if you either don't have or don't feel like playing one of the others that can score massively well. Mind you though, if you use her card for devious instead of friendly encounters, you get quite a lot out of her captain perk, unlike poor Victor.

As for Jan-Piet, yeah, he's not quite on par with Charles/Anna level of captaincy, but he's definately in the second grade of them methinks. Firstly, he's the core of the Beguiler stacking team with his card, and with his captain ability, makes those bonus campaign tokens strong enough that they don't need much boosting to mean you can more or less ignore collect, especially if you don't need legendary gear, which we certainly didn't in this trip!

If scores go lower, wouldn't totally attribute it to Rio, mind you. Manual's working on killing save-scumming, so that may effect the high scores too, though I'd hope we still get as good without them :)
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I had the food and the legendary stuff this time, now I have slightly burned llama fur to sell. I'll buy Phillipe a present, he's kind of depressed after fighting so hard for nothing. I had enough material to write a story but ... me no speak english good ... or any language.

Hmm. A singed llama-fur coat for Phillippe? Perhaps extra llama-cushioned wrapping for his leg so it doesn't seize up in the cold? (Or maybe he secretly isn't depressed about nothing happening, but converted to the llama cult instead and isn't happy that his boss got beaten?) So many possibilities!
Yo 20 lipca 2016 o 9:58 
I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to see or hear about llama right now. He didn't left his bath since he got home, he's trying to get rid of the spit and shame. Also, I didn't see that llama boss in a while, is it a rare event ?
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