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Conflux Challenge

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If you want to score points by fulfilling quests, always keep with you the competition scroll found in the guilds.

Two competitions are currently running: the challenge & the 6 points rush.

The challenge:
Get the highest score. Just post your result here, I'll update the best scores from time to time.

Best scores:

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Parallax 175 points
money 149 points
Iustine 129 points
Inanity 125 points
Joramund 112 points
zoom 64 points
Chaos-Shaman 26 points
megar 4 points
Exploit achievement:

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Antman 190 points
The 6 points rush:
Reach at least 6 points in the shortest time.
Send me your log.
To watch a record, run CSBwin and when before the main entrance, use the menu bar at the top: misc->playback

Best times:
Antman: 710 ticks = 118 seconds = 1mn58s part1 part2

THE QUESTS:

1 POINT:
for each air-rune activated scroll
for each flask
for each funereal weapon
Meet lich Vecna
Kill the mothers of the egg chamber
find the furs trader
get the scorching silk whip (bug warning: the scroll doesn't count the point)
enter the forges
Get the dwarven treasure
Survive the Trial
Win the circus prize 99

3 POINTS:
For each cerberus
for each piece of the dragon armour (bug warning: the scroll doesn't count the points for some of the pieces)
get the weapon of Druafang
get the burning whip of the Balrog

5 POINTS:
find the kitchen lab of Solune
find the cursed armoury
find the long lost wand
ransack the white chambers
get the coral poleyn
save the besieged town
Get a FIERY cerberus

10 POINTS:
kill Xanathar
Recover the Crown of Kings from the Archmaster of Mampang.
Free the leader of the Council and kill the traitor.
Kill all the council members.

15 POINTS:
Collect the three Relics of Power.
Find a Cure for the Curse of the Darc Armor.
Take the control over the legion of Balrogs.
Banish the Hordes of Demons from our Plane and return.
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15 points were too long, i shortened it to 6 points. There should be a third challenge, but I can't find my notes from my comp, so it will have to wait.
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I got 5 points,
Is that not a high score ? :wink:

1-Got a flask (using sar, zo and kath potions)
2-Entered the forge
3-Got a unique funereal dagger
4-Got the fiery silk whip (or what I suppose is) in the spider's nest.
5-Met Lich Vecna (?)
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Congrats! First entry :)
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Zyx wrote:Congrats! First entry :)
what do you mean by first entry?, i'm confused
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I mean, he's the first the enter the competition and score something.
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Zyx wrote:I mean, he's the first the enter the competition and score something.
i'm still confused, why hasn't anyone else done so?, there are so many others here, i am really at a loss as to why, how do you enter the competition? , by sending your save game? just explain in simple terms and i'll hopefully understand, your game was awesome Zyx.

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Hey, the competition is just for the players. It is meant to stimulate the competitive minds if there are any, not me. There is nothing to win anyway, except eternal fame.

Since i can't spend time anymore judging savegames, I've made a special scroll that computes the score in the game.
Just post your own score here, to compare your degree of achievement with others, if you like it.
Though I said I won't intervene actively, I can provide a web space to host savegames or movies if someone wants to show off his skills.
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Post by Parallax »

Oh, maybe you should correct the original post then. It still says the competition is open and saved games should be sent to you. I've been meaning to send you a saved game for some time. Now I know not to bother.
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Done.
I'm still interested in having your savegame Parallax, to see if bugs appeared after a long time of play.
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Post by beowuuf »

Funnily I have been playing conflux with the competition engine - but I haven't checked to see what points I have yet!
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Post by Chaos-Shaman »

Alright then, this is all starting to make sense,but as to why no one yet has posted a score is still confusing, cause it's not like you can't continue a save game or anything.

I sent you my save games as to find out that bug you wanted to fix.

It has renewed my interest in continueing the game since i can improve my score however my movement and time are lousy and i like to spend my time killing most things that get in my way for experience, and sometimes the creature has goodies :mrgreen:
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i have 26 points for killing the council n things
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Zyx wrote:Done.
I'm still interested in having your savegame Parallax, to see if bugs appeared after a long time of play.
OK, I'll send it. Could you PM me your e-mail address again, I seem to have misplaced it. :oops:

Also, you might want to get your hands on Joramund's save file as well. We talked some time ago in FC and we didn't seem to have the same kinds of monster floods in the long run.

I have not experienced any long-term bug so far, although I did find a Shambling Mound in the underwater level that I'm pretty wasn't there originally. I figured it was inevitable that algae would start growing in that fishtank since it never got cleaned. :P

I'll finish gathering whatever few stray points I have left to collect and send you the file. Speaking of points, I'm missing one. I kept a list of all the pointworthy things I did and it adds up to one more than my in-game score. But I did the list when I had already collected a bunch of points so I'm not sure which event didn't get counted. I'm also not entirely sure that an event didn't get counted because I use all 4 save slots when exploring, but I only save definite progress on the first slot (and always in the guild), so it's possible I did something in a raid, then later decided I wanted to raid something else, restarted from the 1-slot and forgot I had now not done it. Who knows? I'll try and check systematically.
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Hello ! I am back in town, beginning (at least) to play Conflux III !
I find it way too difficult if you never player Conflux II. But since I am re-useing what I learnt from Conflux II, I'm doing well. I am currently 6 points.

But the competition scroll says '4 points'. It seems it does not take in account the speel unlocking, is it normal ?

Also, Draco seems unvulnerable, I am right ? I wasted 2 days fighting it (lots of deads), and he never drops dead. I still got the Onyx Key, but no way it gives me the master key... So I gave up fighting...
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Could you tell me exactly which spell(s) should have given some points but didn't?
As for the dragon, he can be killed. I don't why you didn't succeed. Which weapons/spells are you using?
You can send a savegame to help me find out what is happening.
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Post by Parallax »

That dragon has a lot of hit points. Now, if only you could find a dragon-slaying sword...

Edit: Also, unlocking spells does not give challenge points. Check the list, it is not supposed to.
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Ok, maybe I misread "for each air-rune activated scroll".
I was just going to send my savegame to Zyx. So it is normal that unlocking spell "thunder, fireball", don't increment the points.

By the way, I just checked killing Draco, and this time, I got it without any pain !
I was trying with both Scimetars, and Poison Cloud and Poison Bolt. It never died ! This time, with Waraxe ans Katana, - and fireballs -, it took me one hour before it died !! Poor Draco ! I even killed its son and daugther...
I exterminated its whole family. But maybe a Mrs. Draco is just around the corner ?
Thank you Zyx, otherwise, I wouldn't have tried again. Maybe the weapon I used had no effect on it, or my characters ranks wasn't high enough...

Now I have the master key !! (And onyx, what a surprise vy the way !)

I'm going down !
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I may have to restart.

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Are the skeletons generated in vecna's lair supposed to drop/transform into chewer pods?!?

I kept getting error messages when killing spiders that I told the game to ignore.

My party is saved in the treasury/thief room. I can send the save if you want.

Damn, I just got done looting the council rooms.
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Hmm, I think the dragons are very resistant to poison and fireballs. Anyway, you may find more of them later, and some cousins too.

Chewer pods? That's a nice... feature.
jason, could you send me the savegame with the skeletons?

As for the spiders, it's a known, fixed bug. I can fix your savegame if you wish.
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Re: Conflux Challenge

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The challenge: 16 points on the scroll !
1 POINT:
:arrow: for each air-rune activated scroll (i have activated a few, but for some reason the count is not correct if I count them)
:arrow: for each flask (x3)
:arrow: for each funereal weapon (x3) dagger, rapier, ring
:arrow: Meet lich Vecna ( unsure, might have dropped the save where i did )
:arrow: Kill the mothers of the egg chamber ( unsure )
:arrow: get the scorching silk whip
:arrow: enter the forges

3 POINTS:
:arrow: for each piece of the dragon armour (head)
:arrow: get the weapon of Druafang (furx)
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Competition

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Hey you can list me in the competition I guess... I currently have 13 points.

Do you need to see my savegame or something?
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No need. Scores updated.
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points

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edit 4-Sep-07 57 points

Thanks, I'm up to 25 (edit 2-Sep-07-10:20PM: 50 points) now... but feel free to wait a bit before updating


[edit="Inanity, the next day (Sunday 02-Sept-2007"]
Finally killed the council! current total: 39 points

Hey I tripled my point total in 2 days

(02-Sep-07) 8pm Found Druafang - 45 points
[/edit]
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Post by snichele »

Inanity, can you list the task you accomplished to reach such a score ? :)
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snichele wrote:Inanity, can you list the task you accomplished to reach such a score ? :)
How do I find out? My scroll only lists number of points.

Here's what I can remember:

1 POINT:
for each air-rune activated scroll (I think I only have one of these)
for each flask (I have 4 or 5 flasks)
for each funereal weapon (I have axe, dagger, ring... )
Meet lich Vecna (not yet)
Kill the mothers of the egg chamber (no)
find the furs trader (yes)
get the scorching silk whip (no)
enter the forges (yes)
Get the dwarven treasure (yes)
Survive the Trial (yes)
Win the circus prize 99 (no)

3 POINTS:
For each cerberus (got one)
for each piece of the dragon armour (I have head, legs, shield)
get the weapon of Druafang (furx, yes I gots it)
get the burning whip of the Balrog (yes)

5 POINTS:
find the kitchen lab of Solune (yes)
find the cursed armoury (no)
find the long lost wand (no!! can't figure it out)
ransack the white chambers (yes)
get the coral poleyn (no)
save the besieged town (yes but I don't remember getting points for it, just a "blessing")
Get a FIERY cerberus (no)

10 POINTS:
kill Xanathar (who is xanathar?)
Recover the Crown of Kings from the Archmaster of Mampang. (no)
Free the leader of the Council and kill the traitor. (??)
Kill all the council members. (I killed all the ones in the council room)

15 POINTS:
Collect the three Relics of Power. (??)
Find a Cure for the Curse of the Darc Armor. (??)
Take the control over the legion of Balrogs. (??)
Banish the Hordes of Demons from our Plane and return. (??)
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Post by Inanity »

Just in case anyone's wondering, no I haven't gotten any more points - I think I'll come back when there are more people interested. At the moment I'm too involved with my RTC dungeon anyway. And if I do get the urge to play Conflux, I won't have any more points for a while because I started over... I had chosen the 4 guides but I felt like trying again with just Zed (I'm already sort of regretting this, because I've always disliked Zed, mostly cuz of the moustache, but I wanted the horn and the 2 staves which are always the hardest for me to find) for a while and get 3 guild leaders (probably Gothmog, Leyla, and can't decide between Halk/Mophus). Plus I wasted a bunch of coins and so couldn't open two of my favourite shortcuts (actually, I should have been able to open the 4xcopper, 4xsilver, 4xgold, but when I finally found a fourth copper coin the slot wouldn't do anything... is this a bug? In conflux IIK I'm pretty sure it opened up a nice shortcut, but I could be confusing it with the 12 gems shortcut, because I hadn't opened that yet either), which really pissed me off so I didn't feel like continuing that game. I still have a savegame though if anyone wants to verify for the competition.
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Edit: 12 coins gives a Sapphire, hardly worth it since I already have so many. (look in the alcoves in the center pillar)
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Weird. In a previous version I'm sure it was something much better.
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Post by Daecon »

The link in the 1st post isn't working...

Is there another link to the newest/last updated version?
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