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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Guest Game 2: The Oregon Trail - Comp Winner

Trickster's Note: You might recall that Ilmari wished to award anyone that would send in a screenshot of their final score in The Oregon Trail 10 CAPs. Furthermore, the companion with the highest score would get an extra 30 CAPs! I received three entries, but Zenic Reverie's was far and away the highest with 8076. His email included a little bit of explanation as to how he achieved it as well as a section of the game that Ilmari missed out on, so I thought it would be worth posting.

This is my top score. Hope it's enough. And the breakdown.


Oh it was enough alright!

Here's my starting gear in case anyone is interested:


Getting through as a farmer seems to be the key. Triple points!

General strategy was to go get a lot of food up front, and go at a grueling pace for the first quarter, strenuous for the next third, and steady for the remaining. Any time something bad would happen, or if my condition was not good, I'd stop to hunt or rest for 5 days.

Also, there's an alternative path to Oregon that Ilmari didn't mention. If you choose to use the Columbia River from Fort Walla Walla, you get a river boat mini-game.




I think Ilmari would have appreciated the variety this mini-game would have offered.

Elapsed Time: 2h30m

Here's the CAP Distribution for the game too.

100 CAPs for Ilmari
• Guest Blogger Award – 100 CAPs – For blogging his way through the game for our enjoyment

50 CAPs for Andy Panthro
• Sponsor Award - 20 CAPs - For sponsoring the blog with free games
• Guess the Team Award – 10 CAPs – For figuring out two members of Ilmari’s team
• Final Score Award – 10 CAPs – For emailing through a final score of 3216
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

50 CAPs for Zenic Reverie
• Kickass Score Award – 40 CAPs – For emailing through a huge final score of 8076
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

35 CAPs for Charles
• Guess the Team Award – 25 CAPs – For figuring out five members of Ilmari’s team
• Storytime Award – 10 CAPs – For expanding on Ilmari’s vivid Oregon adventure

20 CAPs for Draconius
• Guess the Team Award – 15 CAPs – For figuring out the leader of Ilmari’s team
• Genre Support Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing a new adventure game sale on GOG

20 CAPs for Aperama
• Final Score Award – 10 CAPs – For emailing through a final score of 4290
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

10 CAPs for TBD
• Psychic Prediction Award – 10 CAPs – For correctly predicting the score Zenic would give the game

10 CAPs for Canageek
• Reddit Explanation Award – 5 CAPs – For successfully mocking my mockery
• Genre Support Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing a new adventure game on Steam

5 CAPs for Lars-Erik
• Grim Fandango Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing the great news that Grim Fandango will be back

5 CAPs for Kenny McCormick
• Watery and Bloody Anal Discharge Award – 5 CAPs – For being so romantic
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25 comments:

  1. The Trickster24 June 2014 at 20:35

    Companion Leaderboard Updated

    Note: I transferred 10 CAPs from Canageek to Ilmari as requested and deducted 110 CAPs from Ilmari's trading CAP total for prizes he awarded.

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    1. Ilmari Jauhiainen25 June 2014 at 05:50

      Finally over thousand CAPs, yeah! Ironic that this had no effect for my trading power, since I poured it all to the community. Oh well, thanks for Canageek, or I would have made negative profits.

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  2. The Trickster24 June 2014 at 20:36

    Yes...I'm procrastinating from playing Altered Destiny. It scares me!

    I could do with a little support.

    Anyone?

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    1. Charles24 June 2014 at 23:34

      What do you need in way of support?
      Whatever it is, I can probably offer none! :-P

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    2. Zenic Reverie25 June 2014 at 01:25

      Just look at the next game... Quest for Glory 2! Come on, you can do it... just get past this one to get on to better games. Even though I haven't been commenting much, I've been enjoying your write-ups.

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    3. Ilmari Jauhiainen25 June 2014 at 05:57

      How about this for a support: it's not that long a game, if you just fight through few parser problems, it'll be over in a minute.

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    4. Aperama25 June 2014 at 06:01

      Or this: I managed to acheive all of the random things you have up to this point (plus one other) largely by using the mindset, "if I were the developer of Les Manley, how would I make a puzzle?"

      In truth, I've not run it up for a week because my quasi-annual playthrough of Betrayal at Krondor has had my attention. Okay I've been putting it off because it gives me headaches.

      I'll finish if you do? *worried eyes*

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    5. Draconius25 June 2014 at 09:35

      http://www.runnersworld.com/sites/default/files/files/2012/01/blue-undies_0.jpg

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  3. Zenic Reverie25 June 2014 at 00:55

    Looks like the screenshots got mixed up. That's my ending gear. Here's the starting supplies: http://i.imgur.com/oHz1h76.png

    Thanks for the CAPs!

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    1. Ilmari Jauhiainen25 June 2014 at 06:06

      Great achievement with the top score. I'd really like to have seen that minigame.

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    2. Zenic Reverie25 June 2014 at 10:13

      It's funny because where the paths diverge you either pay for the toll road, or raft down the river; however, every other river you had to pay someone for a raft.

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  4. Andy_Panthro25 June 2014 at 05:49

    The randomness of the game can trip you up, but it's generally quite forgiving. I played through on "Carpenter", but I think I could have picked the harder difficulty and done okay. I never had issues with food, bullets or oxen and only once had an issue with clothing after a thief stole 9 sets!

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    1. Zenic Reverie25 June 2014 at 10:14

      Wagon fire was definitely the most devastating during my three games.

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    2. Andy_Panthro26 June 2014 at 04:04

      My first attempt I had two wagon fires within the first ten minutes of the game. Awful.

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  5. Andy_Panthro25 June 2014 at 05:52

    @TBD:

    I'll need an email (or Steam name) to gift you your prize for nearest score.

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    1. The Trickster25 June 2014 at 17:12

      If you email it me, I'll pass it on to TBD if you like.

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    2. Andy_Panthro26 June 2014 at 04:04

      OK, will sort that today.

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    3. TBD30 June 2014 at 15:35

      Woohoo. I won without knowing a damn thing about the game. I knew ignorance would be useful one day.

      My Steam name is 'The Brown Dragon' and yeah, Trickster has my email if you'd prefer that.

      Thanks!

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    4. Canageek11 July 2014 at 03:31

      We should all trade steam names, or set up a The Adventure Gamer steam group.

      I'm Canageek if anyone wants to add me.

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    5. Cush197811 July 2014 at 05:53

      bishopmw here.

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    6. Cush197811 July 2014 at 05:54

      bishopmw here.

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    7. Lars-Erik15 July 2014 at 23:06

      I'm SunKing on Steam, feel free to add me for those that haven't already.

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  6. Kenny McCormick26 June 2014 at 09:59

    Ah, yes... I'm full definitely full of romance and not, y'know... full of that OTHER stuff I was talking about.

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  7. Kenny McCormick27 June 2014 at 08:57

    Holy shit! Humble Bundle has this great Adventure game deal going on now!

    https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

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