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[Sully]

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ELementOfZero: I can't thank you enough for the help. It took me a lot of practice to get a good handle on moving stars around and your post helped IMMENSELY.

It took me a bunch of tries to get poobah. I made numerous attempts over about two weeks and no matter how focused I was, I simply could not force myself to double check every move and in my constant haste, I would ALWAYS cluster stars and eventually lose to a bomb after making maybe 80+ stars (and having only 10 or so left and maybe a couple pearls).

I decided to build the master grid to this point (the red ring is where I would try to make most of my stars). I developed this somewhat incomplete grid so I had a lot of random colors at the top to help match three when bombs dropped. Making a star resulted in this, at which point I would move the original star that dropped between the other two stars down to the bottom and then re-positioning the new star with the two stars in the upper right. I would continue making stars and stashing them away until the board looked like this, at which point I would make one last star and move it into position in the upper left to make a pearl, leaving the board looking like this. I'd then move that pearl into the very bottom row out of the way, rebuild the grid with the stashed stars, and repeat the process. I ended up storing pearls like this and in typical Sully fashion, I clustered tons of stars and completely decimated my grid trying to rebuild after the 5th pearl. I decided to just make the 6th pearl without completely rebuilding and in all seriousness, my grid looked something like this in the end. I was able to get a pair of stars together and carefully walk the pearls over to the right side one at a time. It was really harrowing at the end as I expected a bomb to fall in and end my game, but I was eventually able to get the final pearl over and rotated in to place for the poobah, which was a huge relief.

Looking at that results pic, you can tell how sloppy this run was. In well over an hour I had made 96 stars (!) and used 36 of them for the 6 pearls that then became the 7th pearl. There were 5 or so stars left at the end, which means I had carelessly clustered over 50 stars in this game alone. Bottom line: in the few weeks I worked on big cheese and poobah, I had barely developed enough skill to get the final achievement. Good enough, though!

[Sully]

Finally!!



ELementOfZero: I can't thank you enough for the help. It took me a lot of practice to get a good handle on moving stars around and your post helped IMMENSELY.

It took me a bunch of tries to get poobah. I made numerous attempts over about two weeks and no matter how focused I was, I simply could not force myself to double check every move and in my constant haste, I would ALWAYS cluster stars and eventually lose to a bomb after making maybe 80+ stars (and having only 10 or so left and maybe a couple pearls).

I decided to build the master grid to this point (the red ring is where I would try to make most of my stars). I developed this somewhat incomplete grid so I had a lot of random colors at the top to help match three when bombs dropped. Making a star resulted in this, at which point I would move the original star that dropped between the other two stars down to the bottom and then re-positioning the new star with the two stars in the upper right. I would continue making stars and stashing them away until the board looked like this, at which point I would make one last star and move it into position in the upper left to make a pearl, leaving the board looking like this. I'd then move that pearl into the very bottom row out of the way, rebuild the grid with the stashed stars, and repeat the process. I ended up storing pearls like this and in typical Sully fashion, I clustered tons of stars and completely decimated my grid trying to rebuild after the 5th pearl. I decided to just make the 6th pearl without completely rebuilding and in all seriousness, my grid looked something like this in the end. I was able to get a pair of stars together and carefully walk the pearls over to the right side one at a time. It was really harrowing at the end as I expected a bomb to fall in and end my game, but I was eventually able to get the final pearl over and rotated in to place for the poobah, which was a huge relief.

Looking at that results pic, you can tell how sloppy this run was. In well over an hour I had made 96 stars (!) and used 36 of them for the 6 pearls that then became the 7th pearl. There were 5 or so stars left at the end, which means I had carelessly clustered over 50 stars in this game alone. Bottom line: in the few weeks I worked on big cheese and poobah, I had barely developed enough skill to get the final achievement. Good enough, though!

[ElementOfZero]

Congrats. I know exactly how it feels to fuck up the grid within the last pearl of two, unfortunately I got bombed before getting either of the achievements.

For when I got the two achievements, they were back to back 2 hour long games, I believe the first I made 250ish stars, second I'd have to check my leaderboard but it was probably around yours. The top row of the grid is really the make-or-break part. I'm surprised you lasted long enough with bombs to get the pooh-bah without it. I had to set up the bomb-defense cluster in the upper left hand corner just to be on the safe side.

Now the game should be easy for you once you get the initial few stars. I know all the really good people can start getting the grid before the second level, but I just make so many combos before I can even get to that point.

Anyway, they were among the most satisfying achievements I've gotten. Mortal Kombat vs DCU ranks with it.
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[ElementOfZero]

Congrats. I know exactly how it feels to fuck up the grid within the last pearl of two, unfortunately I got bombed before getting either of the achievements.

For when I got the two achievements, they were back to back 2 hour long games, I believe the first I made 250ish stars, second I'd have to check my leaderboard but it was probably around yours. The top row of the grid is really the make-or-break part. I'm surprised you lasted long enough with bombs to get the pooh-bah without it. I had to set up the bomb-defense cluster in the upper left hand corner just to be on the safe side.

Now the game should be easy for you once you get the initial few stars. I know all the really good people can start getting the grid before the second level, but I just make so many combos before I can even get to that point.

Anyway, they were among the most satisfying achievements I've gotten. Mortal Kombat vs DCU ranks with it.
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[THABEAST721]

Bumping this thread with a little update for me I guess. I am getting back into playing games. I didn't play for a really long time due to school, but now it's time to get some achievements again for me!

Recently, I picked up Assassin's Creed: Revelations from Gamefly and completed it. If there is a game you are wanting to get right now, it should definitely be this one! The game is just absolutely amazing. If you played any of the others, then you will definitely love this one. There are multiplayer achievements, but they only took me two days to obtain all of them. But achievements aside, the game is just so fun.

I also picked up Super Meat Boy from that Black Friday sale thing they had on Xbox Live. I completed it in a mere two days (yeah I know there was a lot of no lifing involved to do that, but I'm on break so who cares?). It was very difficult, but I got it quickly because I already had completed N+, which is significantly harder imo.

Now I am going to be working on Gears of War 3, Modern Warfare 3, and Skyrim. MW3 shouldn't be too hard if it is anything like MW2 was. Skyrim I really don't care how hard that is at all because that game is just amazing. I can't wait until I finally get it. GoW 3 however, is going to be a major pain. I don't even know if I will ever obtain Seriously 3.0; I am about 3/4 of the way done with the beast and horde onyx medals, but other than that, I have nothing. I guess I will see if I ever find the time to grind that sucker out.
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[THABEAST721]

Bumping this thread with a little update for me I guess. I am getting back into playing games. I didn't play for a really long time due to school, but now it's time to get some achievements again for me!

Recently, I picked up Assassin's Creed: Revelations from Gamefly and completed it. If there is a game you are wanting to get right now, it should definitely be this one! The game is just absolutely amazing. If you played any of the others, then you will definitely love this one. There are multiplayer achievements, but they only took me two days to obtain all of them. But achievements aside, the game is just so fun.

I also picked up Super Meat Boy from that Black Friday sale thing they had on Xbox Live. I completed it in a mere two days (yeah I know there was a lot of no lifing involved to do that, but I'm on break so who cares?). It was very difficult, but I got it quickly because I already had completed N+, which is significantly harder imo.

Now I am going to be working on Gears of War 3, Modern Warfare 3, and Skyrim. MW3 shouldn't be too hard if it is anything like MW2 was. Skyrim I really don't care how hard that is at all because that game is just amazing. I can't wait until I finally get it. GoW 3 however, is going to be a major pain. I don't even know if I will ever obtain Seriously 3.0; I am about 3/4 of the way done with the beast and horde onyx medals, but other than that, I have nothing. I guess I will see if I ever find the time to grind that sucker out.
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[bclare]

Skyrim is a fairly easy completion aside from grinding up to level 50 (if you choose not to use any cheap leveling tricksies). It's really a game to immerse yourself in though, so don't worry too much about the achievements.

ACR I might never complete because of the 100% synch achievement, that seems like it would be a pain in the ass. I really wanna get some multiplayer though, only did SP and went back to Skyrim. Both of those games had crazy high ratios on TA for a little while after release. I had 1602 TA in Skyrim before ACR came out, and 5 days later that was down to 990 something.
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Skyrim is a fairly easy completion aside from grinding up to level 50 (if you choose not to use any cheap leveling tricksies). It's really a game to immerse yourself in though, so don't worry too much about the achievements.

ACR I might never complete because of the 100% synch achievement, that seems like it would be a pain in the ass. I really wanna get some multiplayer though, only did SP and went back to Skyrim. Both of those games had crazy high ratios on TA for a little while after release. I had 1602 TA in Skyrim before ACR came out, and 5 days later that was down to 990 something.
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[Sully]

I've been playing Gears 3 pretty much exclusively since it came out. Seriously is definitely a bitch this time around. The 18k matches can be boosted in idle private bot matches, but it's still going to take hundreds of hours.

I wish Horde mode counted towards multiplayer medals- stuff like weapon/pistol/heavy weapon/explosive/fire kills, spots, assists, active reloads, etc.

I'm at 20 Onyx. I've Onyx'd all of campaign and Beast mode. Horde's 2k waves is going to take FOREVER. I've been split screening it on casual with super reload for 20 or so waves here and there to chip away. I'll have Loot Courtesan, Point Man, and Founder Onyx'd relatively soon- 2k waves will take far longer than the rest (I'm on pace for $5 million by wave 1400 or so).

CtL stuff is going to take forever. I've been boosting here and there split screen vs. casual bots but I'm not even up to 100 leader caps or rounds won as leader.

I'm level 100, mostly from a few hours of daily TDM quick match. I'm not even to 1k TDM matches, though, so playing 3k in each mode legitimately would take YEARS.

If I do finish this, it'll be a LONG time from now. Likely well beyond a year. Especially since I'm starting on other games, so Gears won't be my sole gaming focus as it has been for the last two months.

[Sully]

I've been playing Gears 3 pretty much exclusively since it came out. Seriously is definitely a bitch this time around. The 18k matches can be boosted in idle private bot matches, but it's still going to take hundreds of hours.

I wish Horde mode counted towards multiplayer medals- stuff like weapon/pistol/heavy weapon/explosive/fire kills, spots, assists, active reloads, etc.

I'm at 20 Onyx. I've Onyx'd all of campaign and Beast mode. Horde's 2k waves is going to take FOREVER. I've been split screening it on casual with super reload for 20 or so waves here and there to chip away. I'll have Loot Courtesan, Point Man, and Founder Onyx'd relatively soon- 2k waves will take far longer than the rest (I'm on pace for $5 million by wave 1400 or so).

CtL stuff is going to take forever. I've been boosting here and there split screen vs. casual bots but I'm not even up to 100 leader caps or rounds won as leader.

I'm level 100, mostly from a few hours of daily TDM quick match. I'm not even to 1k TDM matches, though, so playing 3k in each mode legitimately would take YEARS.

If I do finish this, it'll be a LONG time from now. Likely well beyond a year. Especially since I'm starting on other games, so Gears won't be my sole gaming focus as it has been for the last two months.

[Sarg338]

Bumping this, because microsoft has decided to Give rewards for Achievement Score
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Bumping this, because microsoft has decided to Give rewards for Achievement Score
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[Nubnut]

As someone who doesn't really go for achievements (minus a select few games) I'm already sitting at 19k achievement points, and getting those last 6k probably wouldn't be hard if I actually started playing xbox again.
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[Nubnut]

As someone who doesn't really go for achievements (minus a select few games) I'm already sitting at 19k achievement points, and getting those last 6k probably wouldn't be hard if I actually started playing xbox again.
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Add me if you wanna play RB 3, GH:WoR, GTA IV, Halo Reach, Left 4 Dead etc. etc.
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[Sarg338]

So, I was reading the fine print.

"* Birthday Gift (approximate retail value ("ARV"): $0.25 USD) "

Microsoft is so giving!
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[Sarg338]

So, I was reading the fine print.

"* Birthday Gift (approximate retail value ("ARV"): $0.25 USD) "

Microsoft is so giving!
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[Bradmasta]

Been working on Bejeweled 2 lately. Getting the 200 GS in this is no easy task..I got to level 9 in Action Made, which was a miracle lol, and im blazing through endless mode According to the leaderboards i'm at least 2-3 hours ahead of anyone else lol. Buuut i'm only at around 57..I need to get to 281 to get the achievement =/
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2-17-2018: Date I FC''d One and FGFC''d GH3 on Expert

[Bradmasta]

Been working on Bejeweled 2 lately. Getting the 200 GS in this is no easy task..I got to level 9 in Action Made, which was a miracle lol, and im blazing through endless mode According to the leaderboards i'm at least 2-3 hours ahead of anyone else lol. Buuut i'm only at around 57..I need to get to 281 to get the achievement =/
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12-10-2010: Date I started dating my Fiancee /5-11-2012: Date I became the 188th Freebird /3-10-2015: Date I FC''d Revolution Deathsquad /2-16-2017: Date I FC''d Through The Fire And Flames /
2-17-2018: Date I FC''d One and FGFC''d GH3 on Expert

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