FTL is roguelike game where you captained your ship through a randomly generated dangerous universe that was a big hit a couple of years ago. The game is known for finding all sorts of unique ways to screw you over and the success rate on attempts is very low.
I know a lot of SDMBers played it, and I was thinking of re-igniting some interest in the game with a competition.
Let’s each make 5 runs in the ships of our choice, but not being able to use the same ship twice, and record the results. If there’s interest in this, I’ll extend it out to 10 or possibly more runs.
This will rely on the honor system as there’s no way to prevent cheating, but here are the rules:
- You may pick any ship you haven’t already used on a previous run
- You only get that run. You can’t restart because you lost a crew member on your first jump. You can’t retro-actively decide this wasn’t one of your “real” runs. You decide at the beginning of your run to make one of your competition runs, and whatever the results are, you record them.
- The game will be played on normal, with advanced edition content on. PC and iOS versions are identical as far as I know so either is acceptable.
- Your score is whatever your in-game score is listed as, with the following exception: you may add 300 points to your score for every phase of the boss you successfully defeat. You must note when you’re adding that bonus. This is because I don’t feel like the game differentiates enough in score between a run that loses in phase 1 vs 2 vs 3.
- For each run you make a post about how far you got, how you died, and any other interesting details about the run. You could spin it into a story if you’d like.
- People who are active in the SDMB gaming group who no longer post on the SDMB for whatever reason can still submit their results and I will post them on their behalf under their steam name.
We’ll start with 5 runs and whoever has the highest total at the end will be the winner of the first phase. If there’s interest, we’ll do another set of runs on top of that. I will give until the end of April for people to submit results for our first phase of our competition. We may allow people to enter later during subsequent phases - if you’re getting to this thread late, read the rest of the thread and see how that’s going to be handled.
If you want to make some practice runs to warm back up to the game, or unlock a particular ship, that’s fine, you don’t have to record that. But you have to decide before the run starts whether it’s a competition run or not. If you say no, this is a warmup run, but then you go onto win, you can’t suddenly decide it was a real run.