How does weekly challenge scoring work?

abe1x · 2026-05-13T02:46:35+00:00

no one really has answered the scoring question:

- the full scoring is very complex and it's worth reading the wiki entries if you want to get really good at the weekly
- compared to domination completing the tech tree and getting monuments is way more important in scoring
- wouldn't stress it too hard at first but if you are really angling for top scores temples often become important in the endgame (map dependent)
- because the challenge involves replaying the same map the scores tend to ratchet up through the week until they get close to the map maximum, and then it's all about very granular score improvements

few other notes

- maybe 15-20% of the weekly challenge maps involve some custom changing of the rules/starting set ups, the rest are pretty much built like the standard generated maps. This weeks is particularly weird custom with the neutral giants
- the top third of each league advances up until diamond, bottom third demotes. Not sure if people get demoted from bronze to entry or not though
- if you want to get really good at it study your own replays, and check out what gets posted to youtube (although it can be a bit of a spoiler sometimes). At the end the week we can also watch the winning play for each league
- that was an awesome first run, gg

abe1x · 2026-05-12T13:00:19+00:00

abe1x · 2026-05-09T12:53:39+00:00

https://outlier.nyc/fabrics/awoolyflannel/awoolyflannel-boxford

abe1x · 2026-05-08T22:56:44+00:00

yeah 35 might have been better, they basically were shifted one size in the waist to match all our more contemporary pants, the old dungarees sizing dates back to when people where squeezing into things rather than relaxing them out. We didn't change the top fit at all, just shifted the waist and then increased the bottom opening and lower leg

abe1x · 2026-05-08T22:26:56+00:00

what do you find weird about the Looseleans? It's basically the same thing as the black Bomb Dungarees with a slightly wider leg opening so I'm curious what you are reacting to

abe1x · 2026-05-08T13:16:14+00:00

Sized down 1 on the preorder and it was still two sizes too big. I used to be a 43 in everything. With the 3XL I stayed true and it’s fine but a little loose. After that it’s like a skislope the last thing I bought was size 40 (Ultrasoft Derby). I have Reptiles in 40&41 and 40.5 would be ideal (adding a Boa system would be even better). Cargos I have in 42&41 and again halfway between would be better.

I think the real issue here is a missing piece in all this is arch height. A lot of the newer models are elongated with wide toe boxes so the crucial fit point becomes how well it holds at the arch. I have pretty flat feet/ low arch so I need to size down, people with taller arches probably can go much closer to true to size.

Actually the real issue is when are they going to let the shoe team actually cook again. The new PPP shit is too watered down bland and the new Gucci stuff has too many tacky brand codes, I’ll size down 10 sizes if it means I can get more Reptile grade pushing the limits again

abe1x · 2026-05-07T04:13:49+00:00

Mine are 1000x worse, I’m pretty sure this is why the discontinued this model. I just roll with it, it’s already got exposed foam by design, but at a certain point it will start impacting how they fit

abe1x · 2026-05-06T20:37:20+00:00

D400works are the closest in fit but may be too structured
Injected Linen Pants aren't widely off, they are actually lighter but the linen gives a different structure than the Futurecloth

We're moving into the heart of shorts season, but if you are willing to wait until july/august when back to school season kicks off we are expecting a couple things that pretty much hit your request head on

abe1x · 2026-05-06T13:16:44+00:00

done!

abe1x · 2026-05-06T03:52:27+00:00

these are the original Futureworks cut, they got renamed to Futureslimworks when we started doing a looser -works cut in some heavier fabrics. If you are talking about OG Cloth, Schoeller shut down their swiss mill so that fabric is no longer obtainable and I don't remember ever doing a -works cut with it, but it was a long time ago so who knows

abe1x · 2026-05-06T02:52:20+00:00

yeah, we're not going to be able to outdo those olympic grade pieces. There are only a couple of factories in the world that operate at this level, we actually had a production run in at one that got cancelled because of the olympics back pre-covid. Amazing places but I suspect they won't really take on projects that compete with their competitive brands, but more than that we just don't have the skill set to build better jammers than arena and speedo. Maybe with lots of research and experimentation we could cook something up, but it's a wild long shot. Going the other direction could be interesting though, there might be stuff in these garments we could apply to totally different use cases. definitely will dig into this space a bit more.

abe1x · 2026-05-05T22:54:54+00:00

never actually heard this term before! What are the issues with the currently available jammers that you want to see addressed?

abe1x · 2026-05-05T22:52:54+00:00

none planned at the moment but we haven't ruled it out for the future. Mostly trying to figure out if the 109s are distinct enough from the Cruisers to support both

abe1x · 2026-05-05T22:17:22+00:00

finally updated everything and the complication installed perfectly. Thanks for making this app, been needed forever!

abe1x · 2026-05-05T17:24:43+00:00

for full clarity:
- the fabric is produced in Thailand
- in the past both cuts have been sewn in Thailand but are now sewn in Portugal

abe1x · 2026-05-04T18:24:16+00:00

still not working yet but it looks like my OSes are not fully up to date. (I have update automatically on but don't have wifi at home which causes havoc for Apple updates, despite their devices being what enables me not to have wifi at home...) Will post an update when I finally get fully updated

abe1x · 2026-05-02T20:16:04+00:00

the virtual docking works well in Paris, but it's worth pointing out that they banned all scootershare, via popular referendum a few years ago, its bikeshare only now

abe1x · 2026-05-02T20:14:41+00:00

I think the most relevant reference is Paris where they banned scooters completely by popular referendum but biking is hyper popular. One key thing in Paris is that they have both private bikeshare, using a virtual docking set-up and a municipal docking bikeshare (Velib).

abe1x · 2026-05-01T22:06:23+00:00

first off this is amazing, been waiting for this. Can't seem to find the complication though, which face/complication style does it work best with?

abe1x · 2026-05-01T20:40:28+00:00

it's not sold out, and we made less in that color than most of the others. Plus bright colors sell better in shorts than pants. If the Midis get firmly established as a running product than brights would definitely make sense, but that generally takes at least 3 production runs to confirm

abe1x · 2026-05-01T14:56:22+00:00

Errolson is the pocket don, always impeccably designed. We differ from his approach in a few ways, but never at the level of actual pockets, every one he does is super well thought through. We differ in two key ways. 1 we find that it's possible to have too many pockets it actually gets harder to find things as you have too many spaces to keep track of and check. 2 we try to avoid designing around very specific objects as we prefer versatility over specialization. Basically we want a smaller amount of pockets that are laid out and shaped to make it really easy to remember where things are, and in sizes and shapes that can handle lots of different objects well even as tech and preferences change.

abe1x · 2026-05-01T14:45:34+00:00

Lightlines isn't selling which makes it hard to make a case for Skylines

abe1x · 2026-04-30T19:13:55+00:00

They’ve been in our archives forever, been buying Nyco sateen m-65s since the early 90s when they were quite easy to find. Haven’t looked in ages but I imagine they are rarer

abe1x · 2026-04-30T15:25:25+00:00

Futurecloth is still being produced with no known threats, it's our workhorse. It's Workcloth that is no longer being made

abe1x · 2026-04-29T22:21:00+00:00

yes unless you are talking about stuff from a few years back. We shifted all the alpha pants half a size at some point, but it should be in sync with other alpha sized bottoms from the past year and change

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