Surprisingly Addictive...

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:56 pm

i havent been able to buy more then two cannons and only able to upgrade one of them

therecordinghouse · Post by **therecordinghouse** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:11 pm

i am using IE and get the tard humping the handicapped sign too...

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:46 pm

kimaliz wrote:i havent been able to buy more then two cannons and only able to upgrade one of them

That $15k upgrade seems quite impossible....I'm thinking the cannons are crap since their rate of fire seems to be much slower and the range sucks ass (and when I took that as a strategy, I only got to 69) as opposed to a 76 using plants & cannons at the end.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:52 pm

Right now, in several work cubicles throughout the area, exactly jack squat is getting done.

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:55 pm

extremely true.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:07 pm

Hey now, there's not much to do when you are stuck on a conference call.....

G Fresh · Post by **G Fresh** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:39 pm

Perhaps I underestimated the addictiveness of this game...Oh well, if any of you get fired, good luck finding me in the bright lights and big city of Nashvegas. Mwuhahahahahahaha!

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:02 pm

72 getting closer

The Hand of Poo · Post by **The Hand of Poo** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:25 am

I found this while cruising for tips, here's some excerpts:

Some guy from a forum far, far away... wrote:My best so far has been 81. I start with a fire tower, then build nothing but nature towers (using the end-of-the-hallway trick described above). The game illustrates an interesting mathematical property: the money you earn increases arithmatically ($8 times the level) while the foes increase exponentially ((1.25)^n times whatever they start at). This means that there is no way to play forever.

The level-3 flower tower ought to drastically increase the number of levels that one can reach. The best cumulative-price-to-damage ratio of any of the other towers is the maxed-out nature tower, which does about 3.7 points of damage for every dollar spent on it, while the level-3 flower tower advertises a 39.5 damage to dollar ratio. Unfortunately, you would have to save every single penny you earned up to level 76 before you would have the $23,000 needed to buy it. The sum total of all the money I earned up to level 80 was $25,920 (minus the guys who got through to my castle). Could I have gotten up to this point by spending only $2,920 (about the cost of one maxed-out tower)? No way!

I am inclined to think that the author, Roman Sanine, might have only been able to reach level 90 by virtue of some bugs that he has subsequently fixed. There are still a few bugs in the system, like the extra foes that run in on high levels, some of which overlapping, and some unusually hard to beat.

Some other office nerds posted that can consistently achieve 76-83, but it would seem this is the ceiling.

BTW, Ice towers rule.

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:03 am

tried above method and got 73

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:43 am

I'm getting in the 75-76 range. Almost had a 77, but lost a tower when I was trying to put in a couple of thunderclouds...

G Fresh · Post by **G Fresh** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:25 pm

I'm not a big fan of the thunderclouds, they don't really seem to do all that much and you can't upgrade them. Then again I haven't messed with them since the first or second time I played this game so maybe there are some hidden properties I'm not aware of?...

Anyway, my top score to date is 73. It's amazing the strength difference from one wave to the next once you get to the higher levels. You can be kicking their ass one minute and the next it's all you can do to stop them from getting 2 or 3 men into your castle per wave.

This game should be added to the FWM Arcade IMHO.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:58 pm

Was experimenting with the ideas of "thousands of paper cuts".....

The Hand of Poo · Post by **The Hand of Poo** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:29 pm

bwohlgemuth wrote:Was experimenting with the ideas of "thousands of paper cuts".....

Tried it, didn't work out too well.

78 with 7 greens and 2 weak icys. Putting them at the end of hallways does work quite nicely.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:03 pm

I've put mind in the middle....have to quickly invest that money back into greens... 77 is my highest so far.