by Tinker on Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:14 pm
So I looked at Vemb's victory screen and I thought it's an unbeatable score. The leveling was flawless, altar swapping done optimally, the only thing that caught my eye was all those Tributes. I thought about some way to beat his score and I thought, either I try to do the same thing, only not take any Tributes and buy shop junk to convert instead, or I take a risk and go in with other preps, maxing CP, but that means JJ may not show.
So I went in with same preps and tried to repeat his game, but JJ was not very cooperative with his L1 punishments, and I just couldn't kill anything meaningful after I finally Petitioned him to stop harassing me. So I did a slow start, and only picked up at L2, I had to tweak the kill-chain a bit to accommodate my slightly lower XP score. Still, not taking any Tributes gave me a bit higher score in the end (though looking at Tim's even higher score, I see that taking risks paid out).
"Thinker", just without the "ache".