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Originally Posted by Razorflame
congrats smart thinking on the no army suicide 
wish i had thought of that ^^ |
I really can't take credit for that, I just read it as well from the posts here in this forum. Tons of great advice in this forum, and you and BB Shockwave are a part of this.
Case in point, this is actually the FIRST game of KBtL that I actually completed.
Suffice to say I have found GREAT advice in this forum to accomplish such a feat.
Btw, the highest score posted right now is 1,742 found in this post (at page 10 I think):
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=4864
103 quests, level 30, but this time 6 days. Interesting that he almost had no casualties (he only had 10 casualties!)... wonder what happened there... still the top score to beat though.
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Originally Posted by BB Shockwave
Nice stats, but I'll never understand the need some people feel to finish a game in record time. No matter if I re-play a game or play it for the first time, I like to look around everywhere, find hidden details, plan ahead and collect the units I want to play with (even if in KB this means visiting continents and running away from strong armies) or just stop every now and then to enjoy the scenery.
In Armored Princess I see people plan trips to isles taking into account the amount of time travel takes, to minimize time spent playing. Where is the fun in that? Frankly for my score, I only care for "Units lost" which I plan to keep as low as possible (zero in AP so far, but being a warrior I know I can't do a no lossess game).
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Hi BB Shockwave, I did go to every nook and cranny of the game, killed everything that I could kill, and grabbed everything that I could get my hands on.
The thing is, in order for you to achieve a 7 day or less game you have to scout A LOT. Each and every time I enter a new continent or area I make a save game, then scout practically everything (enemies, items, stores and what they sold, etc.). Once scouted, I make a separate save game of the area and call it "map" (eg. Eastern Islands - map). Since this is a scouting save, this is where I take my time and enjoy the scenery.
After the scouting, I study the "- map" saved game and plan my route for optimal time.
In support of this, I actually bought 8 mind runes totalling 3,600,00 gold at the dwarf king's son castle; so my gold should be like on the 6-7 million range.
I actually did this since I was divorcing Feanora for Xeona, so I figured I might as well spend that ton of gold somewhere and drop it to less than 100K before the divorce.
Honestly, it is the challenge of the whole thing that drives people to do this. For this game, practically any statistic on the final record is fair game, and all the more for the final score; alas, the number of days spent to complete the game has a big weight with regards to the final score, thus the push for an optimal run.
I understand your point though. I myself chose the 7 days goal instead of 6 days since, like you, I am compelled to kill everything and get all possible loot. But looking at the hours to spare that I had, especially on the run on Demonis and the final run to killing Haas at Ellinia, in hindsight it seems very possible to do everything and still complete it in 6 days.