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AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 26th March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:19 pm
by mark_man
Welcome to the 340th AR2 A contest: Two-Trio

This is a repeat of the second AR2 A league level

Posted in September 2009.
The results have been downloaded 41 times.

If anyone needs more time, delaying should not be a problem.

Good luck and have fun


AR2 Version 2.1.3 Beta is used, make sure you use the correct version.

If you download this level please submit your solution even if you think it's not good. You help us keep the forum alive and we might be able to help you become a better player.

Submissions by PM.

Prices are not changed. (I think - not for the materials I used to test it, anyway.)


Naming convention [DollarsRemaining]-[YourForumName]-[SolutionName]

GMT Time link: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:21 am
by Arunion
Surprisingly I already feel like I have a decent solution to this one. :lol:

I am really looking forward to how this ends :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:06 am
by decsystem10
Oh - misery :(

I was enjoying this one so much I just went to try to finish one of 2 levels I've spent hours and hours designing and they've both disappeared complete with background picture.
Just "back-distoring" the picture took hours in its own right.

It's a while since I was there, but I can't imagine any way they could have gone, especially selectively (unless it was as far back as the update!).
Not in a 'safe' copy folder, not on my old disk drive, not lurking as *.lvl ...

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:24 pm
by mark_man
Well I hope you find them decsystem10 ,with that you sound hopeful of a win :D .
Arunion we need scores .
Ill start us off with 666+ :twisted:

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:37 pm
by Arunion
Oh yeah, I completely forgot :oops: :lol:

777+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:51 pm
by mark_man
1666+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 11:01 am
by Arunion
1888+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:20 pm
by bythelee
Sorry to hear about the misery. I had something like that myself - I thought I had lost my profile with all my competition solutions in it.
But it turns out I had just mis-clicked the desktop icon, and started the wrong program. Phew. (I have two game installations, one for original play, and another for these challenges.)

It does sound like some sort of hard drive corruption went on though. To lose the background image as well... that's significant, I think. Really rotten luck.


This is a strangely awesome challenge. At first glance I feared the dillos were twice the normal size, and so heavy they'd break everything. But it was just optical illusion.
And I too feel like I found a strangely awesome solution quite early.
But I can't imagine any other way to do it, either. :(
Maybe some inspiration will come in the next four days, but I'm also looking forward to seeing everyone else's results.

2000+ :D

PS: I'll point out again, that the first few AR2 challenges were not solved using the 2.1.3 version, but presumably 2.0.0. I only discovered that when the five year old solutions completely and utterly failed to solve.

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:46 am
by mark_man
Well I'm away for the weekend so lm not one hundred percent sure of my score but I think it surpasses 2222+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:23 am
by Votart Silak
Hi, guys!
It's a very old level, one of the first version 2.
2500+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 6:12 pm
by mark_man
2555+ :D

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:15 pm
by bythelee
Hi Votart! :D
Yeah, we decided to go back and play the AR2 league from the beginning again. It solved the "creativity" problem of the same few people having to make new levels, and allows the host to compete as well. But old hands like yourself and Dec10 were playing back then, too.

These very early levels used a version before 2.1.3.
They do not solve the same, so we have to build new solutions, and avoid copying the old ways.
I hope you have forgotten how you solved it, :lol: It was over 5 years ago.


Meanwhile, 2666+ :twisted:

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:33 pm
by mark_man
We are getting a bit closer now so 2828+ :twisted:

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:54 pm
by bythelee
mark_man wrote:We are getting a bit closer now so 2828+ :twisted:

*Cough* "a bit closer" ? :shock:

I have 2802 and thought I had done really well. :(

Time for another look to see if there's a simpler way...

Re: AR2 A 340 Two-Trio (ends 25 March 2015 @20h00GMT)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:27 pm
by mark_man
Well you are close to my score posted :oops: :D