Guest Game 2: The Oregon Trail - Comp Winner

Trickster's Note: You might recall that Ilmari wished to award anyone that would send in a screenshot of their final score in The Oregon Trail 10 CAPs. Furthermore, the companion with the highest score would get an extra 30 CAPs! I received three entries, but Zenic Reverie's was far and away the highest with 8076. His email included a little bit of explanation as to how he achieved it as well as a section of the game that Ilmari missed out on, so I thought it would be worth posting.

This is my top score. Hope it's enough. And the breakdown.

Oh it was enough alright!

Here's my starting gear in case anyone is interested:

Getting through as a farmer seems to be the key. Triple points!

General strategy was to go get a lot of food up front, and go at a grueling pace for the first quarter, strenuous for the next third, and steady for the remaining. Any time something bad would happen, or if my condition was not good, I'd stop to hunt or rest for 5 days.

Also, there's an alternative path to Oregon that Ilmari didn't mention. If you choose to use the Columbia River from Fort Walla Walla, you get a river boat mini-game.

I think Ilmari would have appreciated the variety this mini-game would have offered.

Elapsed Time: 2h30m

Here's the CAP Distribution for the game too.

100 CAPs for Ilmari
• Guest Blogger Award – 100 CAPs – For blogging his way through the game for our enjoyment

50 CAPs for Andy Panthro
• Sponsor Award - 20 CAPs - For sponsoring the blog with free games
• Guess the Team Award – 10 CAPs – For figuring out two members of Ilmari’s team
• Final Score Award – 10 CAPs – For emailing through a final score of 3216
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

50 CAPs for Zenic Reverie
• Kickass Score Award – 40 CAPs – For emailing through a huge final score of 8076
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

35 CAPs for Charles
• Guess the Team Award – 25 CAPs – For figuring out five members of Ilmari’s team
• Storytime Award – 10 CAPs – For expanding on Ilmari’s vivid Oregon adventure

20 CAPs for Draconius
• Guess the Team Award – 15 CAPs – For figuring out the leader of Ilmari’s team
• Genre Support Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing a new adventure game sale on GOG

20 CAPs for Aperama
• Final Score Award – 10 CAPs – For emailing through a final score of 4290
• True Companion Award – 10 CAPs – For playing along with Ilmari and finishing the game

10 CAPs for TBD
• Psychic Prediction Award – 10 CAPs – For correctly predicting the score Zenic would give the game

10 CAPs for Canageek
• Reddit Explanation Award – 5 CAPs – For successfully mocking my mockery
• Genre Support Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing a new adventure game on Steam

5 CAPs for Lars-Erik
• Grim Fandango Award – 5 CAPs – For announcing the great news that Grim Fandango will be back

5 CAPs for Kenny McCormick
• Watery and Bloody Anal Discharge Award – 5 CAPs – For being so romantic