This isn't intended as wank or anything, hence the OT thread.
Was looking at sQLD's G&G Very Hard Ultimate Solver thread and came across a comment by xorsat on page 45 linking to a thread where they'd worked out how to find the most efficient way to solve any board and made an extension for it. (https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/3365696/1)
I tried it and it worked really well! Following the help from the extension I could solve the game in 19 clicks.
But now I'm left wondering who xorsat is, considering they seem to me like someone who created an user solely to show off this tool. My guess would be either a mathy partner/friend of a regular FR player who was shown the game and existing guides and wanted the challenge of improving it, or a benign multi of someone not wanting their actual account associated with the tools.
It's actually incredibly fast with the solver. The trick is you only follow the solver for border of the top and the top left sides. Once you click all of those, do the normal thing where you just click to the bottom right from top to bottom.
NA I think they were talking about the 'original' solver (the one hosted on github). That one is slow as hell to use and takes ~60 clicks to finish a board.
Xorsat's solver is much faster no matter how you use it.
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Re: OT Thread Mysterious GG benefactor xorsat
(Anonymous) 2025-01-01 11:57 am (UTC)(link)Was looking at sQLD's G&G Very Hard Ultimate Solver thread and came across a comment by xorsat on page 45 linking to a thread where they'd worked out how to find the most efficient way to solve any board and made an extension for it. (https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/3365696/1)
I tried it and it worked really well! Following the help from the extension I could solve the game in 19 clicks.
But now I'm left wondering who xorsat is, considering they seem to me like someone who created an user solely to show off this tool. My guess would be either a mathy partner/friend of a regular FR player who was shown the game and existing guides and wanted the challenge of improving it, or a benign multi of someone not wanting their actual account associated with the tools.
Any other theories?
Re: OT Thread Mysterious GG benefactor xorsat
(Anonymous) 2025-01-01 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread Mysterious GG benefactor xorsat
(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread Mysterious GG benefactor xorsat
(Anonymous) 2025-01-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)The trick is you only follow the solver for border of the top and the top left sides. Once you click all of those, do the normal thing where you just click to the bottom right from top to bottom.
Re: OT Thread Mysterious GG benefactor xorsat
(Anonymous) 2025-01-13 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)I think they were talking about the 'original' solver (the one hosted on github). That one is slow as hell to use and takes ~60 clicks to finish a board.
Xorsat's solver is much faster no matter how you use it.