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Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:17 am
by Harry Dresden
I've noticed a lot of people doing harder runs (15+ mettle), so I'm offering a bounty of sorts. Whoever has the fastest 15+ run on the November 26th leaderboards will receive 5 silver stars, probably from one of my alts since I'll still be doing Maso runs on my main.

Perhaps that will be a bit of an incentive for the people doing easier runs to at least try out one of the tougher combinations, as well.


There will be another 5 stars for the best Maso run. Since those won't show up on the leaderboard, post your time here as you finish, along with your in-game name if it's different than your forum name. Only post your time if it's faster than the last posted time. (I'll verify each one is accurate by checking the profile's retcon history.)

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:04 pm
by Cristiona
15+? Am I eligible? :P

Actually, we should have another pair of leaderboards for 20+. Rawr.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:52 am
by Strlikecrazy
Cristiona wrote:15+? Am I eligible? :P

Actually, we should have another pair of leaderboards for 20+. Rawr.
There should be a Maso leaderboard. It seems *slightly* unfair that those doing Maso should be considered alongside those doing 15/16 point runs. My limits are set at 16 points, and i'm almost level 10, compared to lvl 6 of someone on a Maso run.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:18 am
by Cristiona
Well, maso's 22 points. A 20+ would keep the bracket scheme and allow for a little juggling of what minor relief people were willing to take. Of course, I'm pretty sure naturally hyper would beat out keeping your sidekick.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:41 am
by Strlikecrazy
Cristiona wrote:Of course, I'm pretty sure naturally hyper would beat out keeping your sidekick.
Totally agree. So Ryme, a 20+ bracket? :D

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:27 am
by TeKRunneR
I feel like the current points and brackets favor pull-enabled runs quite a bit. Assuming no sidekick and no skill, compare:
1) 5 pulls/day, no sugar: 16pts
2) no pull, all consumables: 17 points

Both are on the same board. And yet, especially given the length of runs, it seems like 5 pulls/day are a much bigger advantage than having access to sugar. Same deal with runs with skills (to a lesser extent probably, with skills we'll be more powerful, so the effect of iotms will be lower).

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:24 pm
by Ryme
Strlikecrazy wrote:Totally agree. So Ryme, a 20+ bracket? :D
Nope. My official stance is that maso is discouraged. Nobody should ever do it. But, because of the range of options, it's mathematically possible to pick the worst of everything, and I'm not going out of my way to block it. But if you pick the worst of everything you GET the worst of everything, which includes the biggest disadvantabe on brackets. I'm not going to give anyone any rewards for doing it (other than the resulting mettle), including leaderboards.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:34 pm
by Harry Dresden
I guess my 5 star bounty for the fastest Maso in the first 2 months will be the only (and best!) reward, then. :)

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:57 pm
by Strlikecrazy
Ryme wrote:
Strlikecrazy wrote:Totally agree. So Ryme, a 20+ bracket? :D
Nope. My official stance is that maso is discouraged. Nobody should ever do it. But, because of the range of options, it's mathematically possible to pick the worst of everything, and I'm not going out of my way to block it. But if you pick the worst of everything you GET the worst of everything, which includes the biggest disadvantabe on brackets. I'm not going to give anyone any rewards for doing it (other than the resulting mettle), including leaderboards.
Haha! That's hillarious.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:16 pm
by Cristiona
11 days
55h 57m 35s
20 mettle

I'd like to give a big middle finger to the Alamo, which had one of the twits beat me up for an addition 4.5 minutes lost, and to the Baroness who decided to show up when I went to the last room, adding an additional 4.25 minutes.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:59 am
by Harry Dresden
Cristiona wrote:I'd like to give a big middle finger to the Alamo
I'm close enough that I can hear it giving two more back. :P

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:56 am
by TeKRunneR
4 days
38h 27m 50s
16 mettle

Woo.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:18 am
by Corrupt Shadow
Took me 11 days to get a 10 mettle run... lulz

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:35 pm
by NardoLoopa
All mettle is not created equally ;) Pretty much anything with pulls beats anything else.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:10 pm
by Harry Dresden
So far, Valera is the only one who has posted a Maso run. So the time to beat is 56h 3m 50s.

For the regular 15+ mettle run, the current best is 38h 27m 50s.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:50 pm
by Cristiona
Dang. My 16 mettle run was 60h.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:00 pm
by Harry Dresden
As of today:

Fastest 15+ mettle run is TekRunner with 4 days (38h 27m). I don't like that the leaderboards sort by days rather than total time, but I'll work with what's given.

Fastest Maso is still Valera with 56h 3m 50s. I have plans to beat that, but hopefully someone else is also trying to do so.

Also, thought I had posted this but I don't see it ---- If the winning Maso run is under 48h, the bounty will be 10 stars instead of 5.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:01 pm
by zillow
I'm working on beating both, patience young grasshopper

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:16 pm
by Jesus
TeKRunneR wrote:4 days
38h 27m 50s
16 mettle

Woo.
4 days, 38h 31m 10s, 16 mettle
You beat me by about a turn :p

I almost gave up hope of a 4 day run when The Mick beat me after I tossed 2 TNT, a shocker pen, and my last lightning strike against him. He's a bitch and a half to beat without all those shiny toys. I just got lucky. It's such a different experience when you've only got 20 pulls to work with and you spend 6 of them on Brays.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:44 pm
by TeKRunneR
12 days
49h 38m 2s
22 mettle

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:06 am
by Harry Dresden
I have to admit I'm very impressed. Great job, TeK.

For the record, with 17 days left, that is the fastest published Maso run. The fastest 15+ mettle run at this point is also TeKRunneR with 4d 38h 27m.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:17 am
by TeKRunneR
4 days
36h 10m 58s
16 mettle

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:55 pm
by Muhandes
Too bad we are counting days first :) I did a 17m 7d 35h 21m 0s, more days as it was no caffeine/no sugar

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:07 pm
by TeKRunneR
Well, if we counted time first, then Jesus would be well ahead, I think...

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:08 pm
by Harry Dresden
I would love to take the days out of the calculation, but have to go with the Leaderboard on that one since it is there.

Don't forget that this contest ends Friday. Prizes will be give right after rollover Friday night. As of right now, TeKRunneR is still winning both categories.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:39 pm
by the SUPERnaturalist
tek teach me how to be fast

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:49 pm
by Jesus
TeKRunneR wrote:Well, if we counted time first, then Jesus would be well ahead, I think...
The last run I had that would've been before the 26th cut-off... I forgot to pick up 77 Habits, and didn't get it until I was making the rounds to get the level 8 quests :/

Not sure I would have beaten you anyway, TeKRunneR. You clocked some impressive runs, and it was fun competing.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:19 am
by TeKRunneR
Hey wait, I wasn't done yet...

4 days
33h 58m 19s
16 mettle

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:03 am
by Harry Dresden
Just a reminder that the contest ends at rollover tonight. TeKRunneR is still in the lead for both categories.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:14 pm
by Harry Dresden
Congratulations to TeKRunneR for managing to master both run types. Stars have been sent to the winner of both parts of the contest.

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:15 pm
by Cristiona
Congratulations, Tek. I hope you choke on em! :P

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:48 am
by Strlikecrazy
Cristiona wrote:Congratulations, Tek. I hope you choke on em! :P
+1. Good job

Re: Retcon contest - ends Nov 26th

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:23 am
by TeKRunneR
Thanks for holding the contest, it was fun!