M.U.L.E. Post your scores here!

[carlsson]

To celebrate that I have repaired a 9VAC transformer, I plugged in my 1050 and loaded M.U.L.E. from original floppy disk and played a round.

 

Carlsson (Blue Humanoid) - 24076 pts

Colony total - 94952 pts

 

 

Rd Land Auction  Event              Smit Crys Food Ener  Order
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 624VC         Pest attack RC       57   --   15   10  GC VC RC BH
 2 564GC         Nothing              57  136   25   12  GC VC BH RC
 3 504BH         Fire in store        50  132   38   10  VC BH GC RC
 4 --            Acid rain storm      50   56   22   68  GC VC RC BH (*)
 5 444NS         Sunspot activity     43  124   15   51  RC GC VC BH
 6 822RC         Acid rain storm      50   76   15   10  GC VC RC BH
 7 762NS         Pirate ship          36   --   15   17  GC BH RC VC (**)
 8 --            Sunspot activity     83  144   15   26  GC BH VC RC
 9 845RC 1277RC  Pirate ship          57   --   28   45  GC BH VC RC
10 --            Planetquake          50  128   94   79  GC BH RC VC
11 --            Meteorite strike BH  50   76  235   56  BH GC RC VC (***)
12 --            Transport ship       43  144  235   73  RC BH VC GC (****)

(*) I entered the auction phase with $1 and had to sell crystite at $56 to finance any sort of activities in the next round. Still failed to get enough energy for any production in round 5, when the crystite price was high again, but I didn't have any production thereof.

 

(**) Pirates affected all but green who farmed 100% smithore and scored the jackpot (95 units * 83 = $7885) in round 6.

 

(***) After several rounds of being ~3000 points behind, I suddenly had a 380 pts lead over green computer!

 

(****) But red computer with > 100 units of crystite at the end of the game wins it all!

[+therealbountybob]

Nice write up carlsson must be about time I beat bluecat again

[carlsson]

After almost one year of not playing M.U.L:E, I had another game tonight. While being far from any records, it was a decent round with energy crisis after round 5 which propelled me into the lead for the remaining 7 rounds.

 

Carlsson (Violet Humanoid) - 24600 pts

Colony Total - 71531 pts

Rd Land Auction  Event              Smit Crys Food Ener  Order
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 616RC         Sunspot Activity     50   --   15   10  RC BC GC VH
 2 572BC         Crazy Mule RC        50   --   15   10  RC GC BC VH
 3 --            Pest Attack RC       57   --   15   33  RC GC BC VH
 4 512VH         Meteor Strike        43   --   19   33  RC VH BC GC
 5 452NS         Acid Rain Storm      57   72   17   53  RC GC VH BC
 6 714RC 654NS   Fire in Store        50   48   37   47  VH GC RC BC
 7 319VH 259VH   Crazy Mule VH        54  104  140   28  VH RC GC BC
 8 --            Planetquake          36  124  173   26  VH RC GC BC
 9 --            Pirate Ship          50   --  116   39  VH RC GC BC
10 Out of land   Planetquake          50   48   65   73  VH RC GC BC
11 --            Fire in Store        57   84   58   93  VH RC GC BC       
12 --            Transport Ship       50   64   78   59  VH RC GC BC

[carlsson]

And another round. This one was a bit more eventful with a shortage of mules which caused the smithore price to reach 250, a shortage of food for a long while and right at the end a shortage of energy. With pirates only showing up in round 1 when there was none to collect anyway, it was just a matter of waiting for the good prices to sell off the inventory.

 

Carlsson (Red Humanoid) - 31523 pts

Colony total - 101316 pts

 

Actually this seems to be the highest Atari 8-bit Humanoid score posted in this thread. I posted one that is a bit higher, but it was the C64 version. The difference is so small that the two should be comparable.

 

 

Rd Land Auction  Event              Smit Crys Food Ener  Order
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 624BC 604GC   Pirate Ship          57   --   15   10  VC BC GC RH
 2 544NS         Crazy Mule VC        36   88   34   20  BC VC GC RH
 3 --            Planetquake          43   52   78   54  VC GC RH BC
 4 264NS         Fire in Store        50  116  121   56  RH GC BC VC
 5 468RH 584VC   Sunspot Activity    124  100  195   27  GC RH BC VC
 6 --            Planetquake         250  100  171   10  VC GC RH BC
 7 1224GC 1164NS Pest Attack GC      250   76  235   10  VC RH GC BC
 8 --            Sunspot Activity    179  128  235   10  GC RH VC BC
 9 1210VC        Acid Rain Storm      70   96  110   19  GC RH BC VC
10 --            Fire in Store        43   56  217   28  RH GC BC VC
11 Out of land   Acid Rain Storm      71  128  139   49  RH GC VC BC
12 --            Transport Ship       50  136   84  115  RH GC VC BC

Edited June 1, 2018 by carlsson

[tompateus]

Got my mule cartridge a few days ago..?

Havent played this game for 25 years..

Edited November 17, 2018 by tompateus

[+therealbountybob]

Got my mule cartridge a few days ago..?

Havent played this game for 25 years..

"you've still got it" Try and rope in some real humanoids for a game if you can! OK I will be playing mule again soon, perfect for those dark nights so you're in Sweden too so you must know carlsson then

[tompateus]

Jepp i will do that as soon i reach over 100k in total..?

Yeah, saw that he lives in Västerås, its about 150 kilometers from Norrtälje where i live.

[carlsson]

Eh, you mean a single player with a score over 100K without using unorthodox methods in a 2+ player game?

 

I notice the top three scores have been achieved with a Leggite, Spheroid and Packer. Normally I only try to play as Humanoid, but perhaps I should try one of the other races to see if I can score even higher. I suppose the strategy may differ a little depending on race.

[tompateus]

Jepp just 1 player normal game.

Its harder with a humanoid, not just because a poor start with money, but the time goes faster when you are out and running around with mules.

 

When i said total, ofcourse i meant the colony total

Edited November 18, 2018 by tompateus

[tompateus]

Changed strategy!

 

After a coupple games with human, trying to reach 100k in colony total, but failed every time because shortage of energy for the computers and more or less high food price the entire game, i took a new strategy.. feeding them hardcore with energy and food, but prio to energy, with very few mining plots for my self. And then hard buying of smithore after fire to boost price up.

 

The colony went very well, 118k, but i came in third place..☹

 

But today i managed to reach 109k and come in at 1 place. Same strategy, feeding them hard with energy.. and some luck, piracy in first month and fire in third.

 

 

[tompateus]

Changed strategy!

 

After a coupple games with human, trying to reach 100k in colony total, but failed every time because shortage of energy for the computers and more or less high food price the entire game, i took a new strategy.. feeding them hardcore with energy and food, but prio to energy, with very few mining plots for my self. And then hard buying of smithore after fire to boost price up.

 

The colony went very well, 118k, but i came in third place..☹

 

But today i managed to reach 109k and come in at 1 place. Same strategy, feeding them hard with energy.. and some luck, piracy in first month and fire in third.

 

 

[carlsson]

Did you not mine any crystite yourself, only concentrating on food and energy? If you consider it luck to have pirates in the first month, is that because it gives the robots more opportunities to mine crystite later and have money to pay you for food and energy, compared to if the pirates arrive mid-game and sends the whole colony into depression?

[tompateus]

Yes i had 1 or 2 crystite plots and 1 or 2 smithore where it was mountain.

 

Yes, depression is not desirable.

 

I try not be to greedy, the point is to make sure that they got as much energy that they needed, but of course if they got the money, they have to pay..?

But its not a benefit to the colony to milk money from the computors, just for me. So its a balance you have to make..

[tompateus]

Today it was a no goer..?

 

Was feeding them good but did not manage to boost the smithore price high enough and did that to soon..? And the piratebastards came twice!

[carlsson]

Gah, I've been itching for weeks to play a round. I might treat myself later with a game of M.U.L.E. to celebrate December.

[tompateus]

That sounds like a good plan..?

[carlsson]

Ok, so for a break I played the Bonzoid. My initial plan was to go for smithore, but rather quickly on I entered the crystite route, with supplemental energy and mid-game also food since only one computer player was farming that. The score isn't particularly great, but perhaps what's unusual here is how the violet computer player ended up nearly strapped for cash, only $419. I'm not sure what happened to him, though an occurence of the pirate ship in times when you're short on cash can wreck rest of the game.

 

Carlsson (Blue Bonzoid) - 21865 pts

Colony Total - 68462 pts

 

Rd Land Auction  Event              Smit Crys Food Ener  Order
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 792GC, 732NS  Meteor Strike        50   --   15   10  RC VC GC BH
 2 530RC, 470BH  Acid Rain Storm      57   52   21   33  RC BH VC GC
 3 498VC, 438NS  Planetquake          50  104   36   24  RC BH GC VC
 4 --            Fire in Store        50  128   74   17  RC BH GC VC
 5 679RC, 619BH  Pirate Ship          57   --   78   10  RC BH GC VC
 6 559RC, 499NS  Crazy Mule RC        50  100   66   36  BH RC GC VC
 7 --            Planetquake          57   52   42   55  BH RC GC VC
 8 693RC         Acid Rain Storm      50   80   15   26  BH GC RC VC
 9 -- (Map full) Fire in Store        43  132   15   33  BH RC GC VC
10 --            Sunspot Activity     50   96   15   83  BH RC GC VC
11 --            Pirate Ship          50   --   15   40  BH GC RC VC
12 --            Transport Ship       43   80   39   10  BH RC GC VC

[tompateus]

Wierd..! VC dont really have any gods neither.. so i guess he was almost all in on crystite and was struggling with energy.

Edited December 1, 2018 by tompateus

[carlsson]

Yeah. I suppose sometimes it can be nice to take a screenshot of the final map too.

 

Something that struck me tonight but perhaps is common knowledge among the rest of you, is that every time a plot has been sold in the land auction, the next plot in the same round will start exactly $60 below the previous final price. Thus if there are only two of you going for a plot, and you want to take a chance you might save a little money by not winning the first auction. Of course there might not be a second land auction and then you have lost an opportunity.

[tompateus]

Okay.. I have never thought about exactly how much it will reduce..? nice to know thow.

 

Another little tip is: If you have the time and money in a landauction and dont want to buy, and specialy dont want the computor to get the land, continue to press the price after he stops, and press him down under the auction house and then you go down. But that will only work if you got the time and money.

[carlsson]

Actually the $60 below seems to happen also in the next round, or up to 2 rounds later in case there was no land auction for a round. However sometimes the starting price drops by more than $60, perhaps adjusted for the general financial situation. I can observe this through my previous stats as posted above, which perhaps can be useful for other purposes as well.

[tompateus]

Yeah. Its something i will look in to next time ill play.

[carlsson]

Although my sample data yet is too small to be statistically relevant (only 6 games where I saved my notes), I'm finding the distribution of events like this so far:

Acid Rain Storm: 10 out of 66 possible events ~= 15% [average round 6.7]
Fire in Store: 10/66 ~= 15% [average round 6.7]
Pirate Ship: 10/66 ~= 15% [average round 5.6]
Planetquake: 9/66 ~= 13.5% [average round 7.4]
Sunspot Activity: 8/66 ~= 12% [average round 6.1]
Pest Attack: 7/66 ~= 10.5% [average round 5.6]
Crazy Mule: 6/66 ~= 9% [average round 3.3]
Meteor Strike: 5/66 ~= 7.5% [average round 5.8]
Nothing happens: 1/66 ~= 1.5% [might be a bug?]

Total 99% accounted for. Somewhere I've read more detailed information about how frequent each event should be. Perhaps the likeliness depends on how far into the game one is, as suggested by the averages above.

[tompateus]

Im trying to understand the statistic but im to tired now.. Time to go to sleep..

Edited December 2, 2018 by tompateus

[tompateus]

Now when im awake i understand..

6 plays=66 months!

Edited December 2, 2018 by tompateus