Arcade Meister wrote:

 FlobberWorm wrote:

OK - so I calmed down enough to give it another go.  Don't wanna go out as a quitter, ya know? 

So I get grid #5 up... go to my "ex" old reliable spot and .... Y pearl.  9 in a row!!!  
 
OK - ONE MORE CHANCE - same spot - place the 6th star and.... WINNER!  Inverted Y!  At that exact same moment the clouds parted and a sliver of sunlight comes through the window and lights up the room.  Birds start singing and, off in the distance, I hear the forgiving "mew" of the cat.  he's back.

Aaaaaah yes....  life is good once again.

LOL! Someone could write a story about that cat of yours!

Good job, matey. Now you can aim for your score again.

Go1oo1o1ooo1o1ooo1oo11oo1oooo1111o1oo1o1ooo1oo1o1o1o1od luck!

LOL! Good luck flobber!

Did this the other day
haven't played in almost a year, not sure if i'm gonna continue, maybe just pick at it here and there
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Well I am back from a three week break from hexic, but from the looks of it there is still only a little bit of activity in the hexic world...Anyways I continued my timed mode game again today but only completed one MMC bringing me to 137 billion total. I forgot how much longer it takes to collect multis when you are making stars instead of 5 hex combos. I am used to doing a MMCs in 30-45mns, took me around 60mns in timed.

Good luck, CrookYoked and PRISONxMIKE, how're your games (and everybody elses') coming along?

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I screwed the pooch somehow on my first MMC in my new game - built the 64 B MMC, and apparently did something terribly wrong because it only gave me 135 Million points AND created 2 black pearls!  Wish I would have filmed it to see WTF happened.

So yeah, now I've got 4 BP's and in all likelihood will be starting all over AGAIN if I get the stomach for it.

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Aww, poor Flobby! What is it with you and this game? What did you do in a previous life that was so bad, it warrants this obscene amount of misfortune to befall you?

Honestly, I can't believe how unlucky you are at Hexic. One of these days, you'll be laughing at those malevolent Hexic Gods, mark my words!

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Wow, it's been a really long time since I've visited this forum (old gamertag was Iamninja46)!  It's been too long.

Although I probably haven't played this game in a month or so, I remember right where I am.  Attempting to build JDog's 18.5 billion point MMC (my first real one), get the whole thing set up and go through about twenty bomb rounds of waiting for the correct multiplier and somewhere along the lines *** something up and combo three of my stars together.  In the process of trying to get more stars and rebuild the gap, I end up comboing another 3-star combo.  Finally get it rebuilt (most of the way, I believe) and a bomb falls that I have no defense for. =[]

And, that folks, is where I am now.  Not wanting to make a single move because I honestly have no clue what to do...

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 iiM SO N1NJA wrote:

Wow, it's been a really long time since I've visited this forum (old gamertag was Iamninja46)!  It's been too long.

Although I probably haven't played this game in a month or so, I remember right where I am.  Attempting to build JDog's 18.5 billion point MMC (my first real one), get the whole thing set up and go through about twenty bomb rounds of waiting for the correct multiplier and somewhere along the lines *** something up and combo three of my stars together.  In the process of trying to get more stars and rebuild the gap, I end up comboing another 3-star combo.  Finally get it rebuilt (most of the way, I believe) and a bomb falls that I have no defense for. =[]

And, that folks, is where I am now.  Not wanting to make a single move because I honestly have no clue what to do...

So you still have a bomb to deal with? If that's the case, you should post your predicament so some of us can take a look and see if we can put our heads together and solve your problem! I'm sure everyone here is more than willing to help out!

One last attempt at generating some life into this forum before I accept defeat.

Anybody made any good progress on their games?

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 Arcade Meister wrote:

One last attempt at generating some life into this forum before I accept defeat.

Anybody made any good progress on their games?

Errrrrr....  I've got a full grid and tons of multipliers.   *sigh*

Maybe you could start another off-topic thread where we can spew random stuff?  I promise that I'll match every post of yours in that thread with one of my own - maybe somebody will eventually wander over and we can breathe a little life into this ghost town.

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First off Arcade Meister thanks for the bomb help, it worked but another yellow bomb eventually brought that game to an end. I am rebuilding it and have 17 multi on level 5 and since I am using a yellow as a filler instead of the combo I think i will get it this time. On an alt acct i have this set up just waiting to get my cap card working again before I trigger it. It will have a very low chance of succ, but if it works it would be the first 3+ trillion point combo to work. I am not getting my hopes up on it working, but if it does that would be cool.

Well I come here every day, so if you all post, I'll be there!

@ Mike- Nice set up. Looks like a freezer, but I could be jaded due to the last 3 BPMMCs freezing on me when I dropped them! Hopefully this works out for you, though!

As for my progress, I just started a new game. Not much progress so far as I am only in level 1 and I have only made 2 stars so far. This is the game where I'm going to start using Flobber's advice and start building at 9 multis and see if I can be patient enough to build my 24 multiplier MMC. Hopefully the first bomb is the same as the filler because I don't see much chance of getting through more than maybe 2 bomb rounds after it's built! lol

That setup will sometimes freeze, pearls not cluster prop, multis in the 3 stack will not cluster, or work. Chances of it working are prob less than 1%. But from what I have read on the forums in the past, both Old Tacos and Gordy's MASSIVE multiplier combos are unreliable as well and required several tries to actually work

 PRISONxMIKE wrote:

That setup will sometimes freeze, pearls not cluster prop, multis in the 3 stack will not cluster, or work. Chances of it working are prob less than 1%. But from what I have read on the forums in the past, both Old Tacos and Gordy's MASSIVE multiplier combos are unreliable as well and required several tries to actually work

Best of luck!

It's so funny that we love a game that has so many functional problems! hahaha!

It does scare me out of making certain designs because of the rate of failure for so many parts of bigger MMCs. I've stopped trying BPMMCs all together for the time being because all of the ones I have done in the last 2 months have frozen. I should have a score in the top 25, but two that would've put me there froze. Damn you Hexic! I guess I'll just keep going!

 FlobberWorm wrote:

Errrrrr....  I've got a full grid and tons of multipliers.   *sigh*

Maybe you could start another off-topic thread where we can spew random stuff?  I promise that I'll match every post of yours in that thread with one of my own - maybe somebody will eventually wander over and we can breathe a little life into this ghost town.

Hmm...maybe. The last 2 weren't very successful, though, particularly mine, as I made it when the community had more or less died. When you made yours, it had just started to. We'll see...

 PRISONxMIKE wrote:

First off Arcade Meister thanks for the bomb help, it worked but another yellow bomb eventually brought that game to an end.

I'm glad to hear that it initially worked, though not ideal, I thought it might be the best way to limit the damage. Shame it was in vain, though. Hope you have more luck next time.

 theEVOL1 wrote:

Well I come here every day, so if you all post, I'll be there!

That's what I like to hear! We need people like you to keep this community going strong, we don't want to see this forum become like Mutant Storm Reloaded's.

I've been toying with the idea of possibly starting a new game but I want to wait until I'm able to record "proper" videos before I decide anything.

Anyway, enough about me, updates, peeps!

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Well, I started a new game today with a plan to test out the right side of my 24 multiplier design. I started building once I got 10 multipliers like Flobber had suggested. It worked like a charm.

Anyway, after setting up the entire right side, I hit a round that dropped 4 multis of my color, so I decided to just go for the entire 24. Unfortunately, I got 20 multipliers set up, and hit 2 bomb rounds of the same color and couldn't recover.

It was kind of nice to get wiped out by a bomb, and not a stupid self inflicted mistake. As stupid as that sounds, it makes me feel a little better, and building earlier is definitely the way to go for me! I'm getting entire MMCs built in about 1.5-2 hours now. That beats when I first got my Poo-Bah in 6 hours!

 Arcade Meister wrote:

we don't want to see this forum become like Mutant Storm Reloaded's.

As a by-the-by, just looked at the original Geometry Wars forum and that's nearly as dead.

Anyway, sorry to hear your game ended, EVOL, have you started a new one yet and if so, how're you progressing?

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I have been re-testing the right side of my 24 multiplier design and haven't been able to get it to work. I did what I wanted the first time I tested it, but the next 3 times it has failed. it makes me leery of trying to build the whole thing again.

It just makes me wonder why the same thing works sometimes and fails another. It's so frustrating!

I'm thinking about doing a series of new tests and surrounding the part of the design that is failing with different colors of extra pieces and trying to find some scenario that it will work consistently. There has to be something going on here, or maybe Hexic is just a horrible b*tch! lol

 theEVOL1 wrote:

There has to be something going on here, or maybe Hexic is just a horrible b*tch! lol

Well, I think Flobby would go for that!

Yeah, I've noticed that Hexic is pretty inconsistent with regards to many things but if you keep trying, eventually things will fall into place.

Good luck!

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 Arcade Meister wrote:

 theEVOL1 wrote:

There has to be something going on here, or maybe Hexic is just a horrible b*tch! lol

Well, I think Flobby would go for that!

Yeah, I've noticed that Hexic is pretty inconsistent with regards to many things but if you keep trying, eventually things will fall into place.

Good luck!

Oh there's no question, Hexic is a cast-iron B*tch!!!  She'll seduce you with her pretty colors and intriguing secrets, and then just when you think you're about to achieve ultimate success with her, she'll smash your nuts with a sledgehammer.

But you know what?  Even after that you'll still love her.

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 FlobberWorm wrote:

 Arcade Meister wrote:

 theEVOL1 wrote:

There has to be something going on here, or maybe Hexic is just a horrible b*tch! lol

Well, I think Flobby would go for that!

Yeah, I've noticed that Hexic is pretty inconsistent with regards to many things but if you keep trying, eventually things will fall into place.

Good luck!

Oh there's no question, Hexic is a cast-iron B*tch!!!  She'll seduce you with her pretty colors and intriguing secrets, and then just when you think you're about to achieve ultimate success with her, she'll smash your nuts with a sledgehammer.

But you know what?  Even after that you'll still love her.

So true, so true! I've heard your story, Flobber! I KNOW you have felt Hexic's cold shoulder!

On to my progress...

After a few more failed attempts to gather some insight into these scoring mysteries, I came up with a pretty, albiet daunting, SFMMC that can yield over 600 billion. It's funny how I look at my designs and think that there is no other way that they can be optimized, then all of a sudden, BOOM, I have an epiphany! This one's solid. I know it will work! I just need to get lucky with my bomb situation. I will have very little room for error.

Wish me luck, and I will be sure to make a video for it if everything falls into place!

 FlobberWorm wrote:

Oh there's no question, Hexic is a cast-iron B*tch!!!  She'll seduce you with her pretty colors and intriguing secrets, and then just when you think you're about to achieve ultimate success with her, she'll smash your nuts with a sledgehammer.

But you know what?  Even after that you'll still love her.

LOL.  Flobber, you're like an old captain telling tales of the sea... but it was an accidental cluster, not a shark, that gave you your peg-leg!

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Well, I'm not as skilled as everyone else here.  I'm starting to get my feet wet with MMCs by copying some from epezent's guide.  The first choice was easy: YS23 Aoki's no bomb MMC.  No plucking required and it seemed relatively straightforward to construct it one "row" at a time.  I think my previous high score was about 500,000.  Setting this off put my score over 10 million, so I'll be interested in seeing what my rank is when the game ends.

I rebuilt the grid and picked a new MMC (again from epezent's guide).  No way to get around plucking this time.  I chose oldtaco's 19 multiplier MMC.  It's relatively compact and doesn't have a lot of stars to set into place.  The first thing I realized was the real value of the inverted Y pearl.  I have no idea how I'd set up the piece in the lower right corner without it.  I built the bottom row and took my first stab at plucking.  I failed miserably.  I pretty much destroyed my grid.  I tried moving stars from the bottom to patch holes up top but kept messing up and called it a failure once I had to mess up the bottom row to patch things up.

I've now rebuilt the grid, although I had to get very lucky with at least one bomb to do so.  Nothing of the appropriate color nearby and the timer down to 1, I had to set off a combo and pray for a couple pieces of the right color to land in the right positions.  They did.  I've now got a 3 multiplier bomb defense in place, but those are currently my only multipliers on the board barring the one in the lower right.  I decided to take another look at epezent's plucking animation, but it was too fast to figure out the starting position and how it worked move by move.  I managed to find an online gif editor which allowed me to view it frame by frame.  Apparently, the method I was trying was a lot more destructive than it needed to be.  So I'm stuck mining for mutlipliers again, but I think I can figure out plucking and I'm hoping attempt number 2 will be successful.

Keep at it Creepy (LOVE your GT btw!) - plucking stars is pretty tough to master - it takes a LOT of patience and careful planning - one false move and the results can be devestating. (As you already know). Looking forward to your updates on your path to your first successful MMC - keep us informed! =)

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 FlobberWorm wrote:

Keep at it Creepy (LOVE your GT btw!) - plucking stars is pretty tough to master - it takes a LOT of patience and careful planning - one false move and the results can be devestating. (As you already know). Looking forward to your updates on your path to your first successful MMC - keep us informed! =)

Agreed! Hexic is very much a marathon, not a sprint, though the name of the mode is probably a giveaway!

P.S. Flobber, check your PMs.

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Well, this is technically my second MMC.  As I mentioned, the first one didn't require plucking and went off without a hitch.  No real updates yet on the second one.  I screwed up at least once since and quickly rebuilt.  I don't know whether I rotated in the wrong place, or just wasn't careful, but I ended up comboing 3 multipliers.  I've now successfully plucked 2 stars so far, but I'll feel a lot more confident once I finish plucking the remainder of the row.

As for the gamertag, it was a name I was given by my brother after his son was born.  He's also the one who got me an Xbox Live starter kit as a present.  Apparently, I wasn't setting up the account fast enough for his liking (I spend a lot of time on World of Warcraft), so he started setting it up himself, wihle I was still eating if I recall.  I took back over near the end of the process, once I had finished, and had to come up with a gamertag.  I tried a few things and they were all taken.  The nickname came to mind, but I'm not sure how seriously I was considering it.  When I told him, he insisted I had to do it.

Once it was set up, he gave me a list of gamertags to send friend invites too.  The first one, of course, was my brother and I was soon dying with laughter.  Why, you ask?  I saw the message that was about to go out to everyone:

CreepyUncleMike wants to be your friend.

Fail!  FAIL!  MASSIVE FAIL!

I can't believe that just happened...  It wasn't easy, but I got the whole thing set up.  I couldn't figure how to rotate the last light green multiplier of the MMC into place, so I comboed a few stars and rebuilt the grid.  At one point, I had set off my 3 multiplier bomb defense and comboed some excess stars I had after my last plucking.  I should have put one of the other stars back in place before doing so.  I'm out of spare multipliers for defense and I need to rebuild my grid with the small usable part I have left.  I get lucky on my next bomb and finally get the grid back up and start praying for multipliers to drop.

Another light green multiplier drops.  At first, I'm thinking, "What good is this now?  I already have the MMC set up."  Then I realize I can use it for my bomb defense.  I finally start seeing some multipliers drop.  I have my 3 for defense and set up 2 orange (my filler color), waiting for an orange bomb to drop.  Instead I get light green.  I realize I'm not going to be able to ferry over another light green tile in time so I go to activate my bomb defense by clustering the 3 stars...

Except I must have clustered 2 light green stars with the bomb.  My whole set up went up in smoke.  Looks like I'm back to square one again.

Ouch!  That story there qualifies you for entry into the Hexic Misery Hall of Fame! 

Remember - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. 

Keep at it - no doubt you'll achieve success soon.  Best of luck! 

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 FlobberWorm wrote:

Ouch!  That story there qualifies you for entry into the Hexic Misery Hall of Fame! 

Remember - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. 

Keep at it - no doubt you'll achieve success soon.  Best of luck! 

If that's the case, you make Hercules look like he never made it out of nappies!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Sorry to hear that, Creepy, that is actually quite bad, I have to say. I hope you can recover from this setback and go on to become one of the greats!

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I wish I could say my luck's been improving.  Should any gods of Hexic exist, I'm sure they are actively mocking me right now.

All right, so I fire up Hexic and choose Marathon mode.  Choose a difficulty level?  What happened to my saved game?  Didn't I exit out to the main menu before shutting it down?  And why couldn't they have added an actual save option?  13 million points down the drain.

My next game is horrible.  Bomb wipes me out before I can really get started.  So I start again.  It takes me a while to get started, but I get the grid up, make a pearl (at least I seem to be having luck with inverted Ys), build the grid back up, and start farming multipliers.  I now have multipliers 3 rows deep and haven't chosen a color yet for the MMC.  After a while I decide I might as well try to fill the board with the things.  I manage to get to about 44 or 47 at some point when I mess up on a bomb.  I realize I'm one move short of ferrying tiles close enough to the bomb and I've actually moved the bomb out of range of my bomb defense.  Then I realize: I have multipliers all over the place!  The whole board is pretty much my bomb defense!  So I move the bomb in another direction and combo 3 multipliers.  I think the reaction also wiped out the upper right portion of my grid and a few multipliers.  No big deal yet.

So my next task is to create new stars to build back the grid, attempting to use as few multipliers as possible (or at least avoid the colors where I have the most multipliers).  I manage to get 5 light blue tiles from the upper left, then try to get a light blue multiplier to complete the star...

And accidentally surround one star with 6 purple multipliers.  This is one chain reaction I didn't want to set off.  I am currently down to 7 stars in the aftermath.  4 of these are paired up in the left and right columns where I can't rotate them.  Two are on the bottom of the board and the last one is quite close.  If I can set up a combo to move this star to the left, I can start peeling pieces off the edges of the board.  Until then, I'm ****ed.

I think it's time for me to get some rest and build the board back up later...