BiffMan

I buy a boat and start fishing.

Just love the game (possibly my single favorite) and love figuring out how to math the shit out of it.

Finally starting to wrap my brain around this version... It's kind of the anti-Pac-Man... Avoid killing ghosts. Weird. 180,520

Congrats! Getting points earlier in the game is the secret sauce. Nice thing is how many paths there are to that.... Heavy money early/low score, go for consistent score while trying to close the gap on income, massively unhealthy living conditions, etc... 🙂

WOW!!!! Congrats, that's a heck of an improvement for you over the course of this round!

There is no Pac-Man, only Utopia... LOL. Hopefully I'll crawl out of last, but apparently I have lost my knack for mazers. At least this is vastly more fun to play than The Game That Shall Not Be Named.

Great job, guaranteed at least +1 point in PacMan! 🙂

2656 - 30/45 Slight improvement, but I'll take it. Gets tough to squeeze out additional points early. Fishing and pirate luck start to factor in pretty heavily.

That's why I usually play fewer rounds since the last 10+ rounds will likely be max score and therefore irrelevant. You'd do about the same amount of actual strategy in a 20/45 game as you would in a 30/45, which is why we used to settle on 15/40 as a fun quick 10 minute game. Maybe a hint for next season since there seems to be much interest in Utopia this time around... 🙂

Nicely done, congrats!

Perhaps overall less hit, but when they do, they make up for infrequency with severity and usually plow straight south through the bulk of the left island. Speaking of hurricanes, the tension and drama of a hurricane that sits half off the bottom of the screen is just epic, especially in a 2 player game. Hats off to the developer and the 'nudge' code creating such awesome weather outcomes.

I don't find an advantage in one over the other, I just have jzintv coded to left controller for my Flashback and it's too much hassle to change it around 🙂

It's hardly secret or anything, but yes I have devoted some focus to the game... Lol Population bad! Die die die! 🙂

2613 - 30t/45s I do so loves me some old fashioned Utopia min/max! 🙂

Welcome aboard and great start!! 🙂

Interesting comment in hindsight, eh? 🤣

I figured it out eventually, but I did think you were 3-deep talking to yourself for a moment there 🙂

Yes, the fun of playing 45s turns (or faster) is you really have to decide what to do. Fish or build, and don't get too far from your island if you can avoid it. That cursor speed is a killer! 🙂

Even something like 15/40 is pretty fun. 10 minutes and most of the turns past 15 or 20 are max score anyway.

Jacob, I think I love you. 'Blitz' Utopia is one of my favs, really great addition, thanks!!

This game may have seen the most "score growth" by the most folks of any game thus far. A lot of folks seriously stepped it up!

Da fuq? WOW!!!! 😵🤯😵 (Monk would prefer you get to an even 1,000,000)

Says something about this game that I played again because I just wanted to play some more... 🙂 83 lives at 90k, 26 lives at 100k, finished at 103,700. 90k is definitely my kryptonite...

Okay, that's all I have... 32 lives left at 100k, got exactly 2 shark bites in. Crazy fast.... mad props to those with the insane scores! 101,700

Very much like that. My personal challenge seems to be the 90k mark, that's definitely the cliff and 100k is the pool lava waiting at the bottom of the plunge.