Bossbot CEO strategy guide - first draft

[miss fluffy flipperfoot]

Quick Question,

CEO Reward - 1 pink slips which show up in your gag selection screen for each CEO you successfully complete. It takes one pink slip to fire any size cog. A huge cannon appears and the cog is inside the barrel and is shot out of sight with a boom, plus his damage value is display just before he's fired.

Can the pink slips only be used in the CEO battle, or out on the streets of TT as well? Doesn't seem like much of a reward, if it's only for the CEO battle.

[kyga42066]

Originally Posted by miss fluffy flipperfoot

Quick Question,



Can the pink slips only be used in the CEO battle, or out on the streets of TT as well? Doesn't seem like much of a reward, if it's only for the CEO battle.

If you have engaged a cog and you have a gag selection screen with the pink slip showing as a gag, it can be used anywhere.

Lion Heart

[chocoholic1415]

Really well written guide

One thing to add - if you get run over by the CEO he takes of -20. He'll usually stand on top of you for quite awhile before he moves on to his next target.

I also agree with Danny on tweaking the 1 fog method. If there's even 1 9 in the lineup, I'd rather see 1 fog, 2 eles and either a gag to take out the v2 9 or to finish off one of the bigger cogs.

Off to get my suit on open

[Daffy Doggenflinger]

OK, I did my first CEO battle with a group of friends last night and this guide was VERY helpful to me. Thank you very much for writing it! I have a few small suggestions for improvement.

The first time you do a CEO battle, you should probably man a golf tee. It takes some time to get used to the CEO's "FORE!" attack, and you are at much less risk of losing LAFF on the golf tees from any other kind of attack. When you have the proper timed response to the "FORE!" attack down, you can try a seltzer bottle station, where you will be subject to more of the other CEO attacks (see Murkey's post).

Also, during the cog feeding, at the beginning of the feeding session, it is important to feed the cogs first which are furthest away from the conveyer. In your cog waiter suit, you only move at a very slow rate, and it will take you the longest to get to the tables that are furthest away from the conveyers. So, it will be hardest to feed the cogs that are furthest away from the elevator. This strategy will become increasingly important as the average suit level in the group rises and you get more cogs to feed.

I wasted time trying to feed cogs with can icons over their heads. You need to ignore those cogs. It takes a cog a fixed amount of time to consume the can of food and the can icon over the head indicates that the cog is busy doing that. My bad, but it could be emphasized a bit more.

When the CCG starts to get some bigger suits on the elevators, similar to Law, it will be important to keep the average suit size in the elevator down so that you have a manageable cog-feeding phase to the battle, which results in a minimal number of left-over cogs that need to be battled.

Finally, it is important to play with your sound on during at least the final CEO battle when the CEO yells "FORE!" If you are doing your job, you will be pointed at the CEO, and he might be very far away. The little "FORE!" bubble will be very hard to spot. But the sound will be very obvious.

Amazingly enough, unlike Law, I survived my first CEO, only losing 60 LAFF during the entire final battle. Most of that was from not jumping out of the golf tee in time when the CEO yelled "FORE!"

With that said, the most useful Unite! phrases to stock up on may well be the Gag-Up sound and/or all phrases to get you through those situations when your group has done a poor job of cog feeding. On my run, we only had five cogs left over (with two newbies in the group), and as I was in the slow group, we only had one extra cog to battle at the end of the feeding.

My final comment is that this seemed easier to win than Law was at first. Of course, going with a good group of friends who won't panic and flee helps out a lot, which is why I'm looking forward to doing CEO battles with my CCG friends!

[Fangs91]

Oh one thing, not sure if it happens all the time, but i did a CEO earlier today and we destroyed all of the cogs in the serving part, so we only got a regular Big Cheese 12, not a Version 2.0

-Lady Fangs♥


p.s. Thanks for the guide, there were some things i didnt know in there that are helpfull.

[Flippers]

I heard from folks that everyone serving the tables closest to the conveyor belt and working their way out is a good method to clear the tables of cogs. Is this viable?

[Scout]

Originally Posted by Flippers McGurgle

I heard from folks that everyone serving the tables closest to the conveyor belt and working their way out is a good method to clear the tables of cogs. Is this viable?

Absolutely, this becomes of increasing impact when you are facing Big Cheeses, more tables and more cogs. Serve the outside closest, then the middle. Check, please!

[KingOscarKookybubble12]

Nice Job!You are very smart!

[Wild Hush Puppy]

Great Guide!

I haven't CEO'd yet, but I'm planning on doing it pretty soon. So, watch out, here comes the newbie gal!

[JOE3.76]

Originally Posted by kyga42066

I put together some information I've gleaned from our various posts and battles I have attended.
Please feel free to add your comments so I can included them in a post on open WHEN Bossbot HQ's finally gets there.

There are no charts and graphs in this guide. Feel free to develop those, but your first experience is going to be a real eye opener to how risky this battle is. The CEO is every bit the menace he claims to be after his smart remark to get 'cracking and serve my banquet'.

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CEO Strategies –

Many toons from test who have open toons will be sharing a lot of their knowledge on battling the CEO.


First of all:

Primary Battle –

The primary and first battle is getting the waiter uniforms for the cogs who are supposed to serve at a Banquet the CEO is throwing. There are lots of these cogs, in excess of 30 most of the time. You will note that you are having to get a special kind of cog called a ‘version 2.0. It is a cog that reconstructs as a skelcog after the regular cog is destroyed. There are damage values that may carry over to the skelcog from the destruction of the regular cog, but it is NOT a foregone consensus. Part of the carry over damage (destruction points in excess of the kill value of the cog) may go to the skelcog, all of it may or none of it at all. It appears to be random, so don’t think you’re going to need less just because you have a large overkill value. The version 2 cog that appears usually doesn’t attack in the immediate next round so you are safe from cog damage for a bit. Often times, taking out a cog completely with a first use gag can be followed up with a second use gag in that round to remove the skelcog. e.g a lvl11 cog ver 2 is in the lineup. You do a TNT trap on him and follow it with a cake/pie combo and it usually takes out the skelcog also in the same attack round.

Some strategy that helps:

1- Take a full load of sound, lvl7’s included.
2- Use one fog and 3 elephants regardless of the cog size. (works quite well)
3- This takes a lot of cogs out without using up so many gags so quickly.
4- You can toonup when someone drops below 75-85% of the max laff level
5- Try to save your lvl7’s for a future battle (referring to non-organic lvl7's, you can pick these daily at home)


Secondary Battle:

The secondary battle is not really a battle. You are in a white waiter suit of your cog level size and there are 2 conveyors (left and right), both serving out cans of food. These cans can be picked up by simply walking over to the conveyor belt and aligning your toon with a moving can. It will jump to your toon on a platter and you take it to a seated cog. You MUST serve a cog 3 times in a row to destroy him. An icon looking like a stomach appears over his head when he is ready for his next can of food and he waves his finger to get a waiters attention. Be sure to get it to him before his stomach fills up solid red. If it gets solid red, he starts banging his fist on the table and yellow lightning bolts flash. That means he is angry at being ignored and you will have to START all over again with him, so don’t miss feeding a cog.

1- You are trying to get rid of all of the seated cog at the banquet in 5 minutes (300 seconds)
2- Any cogs you have left will have to be battled using the convention method and they are all version 2 cogs.
3- Work in pairs at each table to assure that each cog is fed and NOT missed. You will leave fewer cogs if any at all using this method

Third battle:

1- The first cogs you get will be a singular Big Cheese lvl12 ver 2
2- That means a secondary skelcog will appear after you defeat him
3- Any cogs left at the tables will come to your group of toons to be battled after you kill the Big Cheese
4- If you are the first group finishing, you will get four cogs if there are four or more left at the tables.
5- The other group of toons will get four of the remaining cogs after your set or all that remain if there are less than four.
6- So it is imperative to do a very good attentive job on the feeding of the cogs.

Last and Final battle:

This can be the battle that makes or breaks all your efforts. I must insist that you form a good pattern of teamwork and stick to it just like we did in the CJ battle. Find what you do good and stay with it. Please do not change up jobs unless something special occurs (later on that)

All the tables that the cogs were seated at in the banquet will have a seltzer bottle on top of them
•Select a table and use your left/right arrow keys to locate the CEO
•Using the control key, charge your bottle up by holding that key down
•The longer you hold it, the greater the charge
•Gray line is a -2 laff hit on the CEO
•Yellow line is a -4 laff hit on the CEO
•Max line (red) is -6 laff hit on the CEO [the red line will disappear to no line if you over charge – so be very careful about that]
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Behind the tables, next to the entrance of the room, are four different colored golf balls (yellow, red, blue and lavender)
•Locate your toon at a golf ball and await the shooting stance/line
•Using the control key, strengthen and lengthen your hit by hold it down
•Using left/right arrow keys, locate the CEO and releasing the control key will fire the ball
•The ball is hitting the CEO if you see:
light brown smoke from the yellow ball,
lavender smoke from the lavender ball,
red smoke from the red ball, and
bluish/green smoke from the blue ball.
If you see NO smoke, it is not hitting him at all
•Constant hitting on the CEO will turn his tracks from gray to pink to dark red (almost maroon)
•As they darken, the CEO movements will slow down giving the seltzer battlers more time to hit him
•Keep hitting him the whole time of the battle to keep him slowed down
•Failure to continue to hit him causes him to increase his movement speed to normal (not something you want to happen)

The CEO retaliates during the full term of the battle and his methods are very dangerous to toon laff. He throws gears at random to certain targeted toons. He slings golf balls at random to certain targeted toons. And his primary overall damage is done when he yells ‘FORE’. Every toon in the battle is targeted and if they get hit, they lost -15 points per golf ball.
•The CEO gears hit for at least -3 laff points
•The singular golf hits are from a -15laff points (note- a single golf ball hitting you scores this damage)
•The ‘FORE’ strike is a -15 to a -45laff points for every toon who didn’t escape. (last update changed these values)
•You escape the ‘FORE’ hit by hitting the escape key (jump button needs use of mouse and sometimes moves away from the button so the escape key seems to be best to use)
•Your toon automatically backs away from the golf ball or you exit the table (step aside as well from table)
•If he yells ‘FORE’ again while you are away from your weapon, you MUST move again, because he has retargeted your toon at its present location for another hit.
[font=Verdana]•At the 20 minute mark, the CEO yells ‘Time to reorganize’, destroys a conveyor belt and his golf ball damage increases to -19pts/hit

There are toonup gags on the conveyor belts coming out continuously. They are NOT big laff items so I caution you to use them appropriately for the welfare of all the toons in the battle.
Apple - 1pt
Cupcake - 2pts
Sandwich - 3pts
Boxed cake - 4pts
Most all of you toons can tolerate a 75% laff loss without needing toonup. Some points we have gleaned from our various battles are these:
•Keep watch for the other toons who are taking hits frequently. It may be for various reasons as the CEO is noted for targeting a particular toon as stays with that toon for most of the battle (doesn’t seem fair but it appears so)
•Don’t try to keep your toon at full laff (you will be away from your duty too much and rob others of needed TU from the conveyor)
•Seriously damaged toons need come to your attention (lmore information later)
•If they are not doing well on the seltzer, trade places with them
•Make sure you tell them to get food gag toonups from the conveyor and for them to stay out of the battle until they are reasonably healthy to join again. A sad toon can NOT help you in this battle, so help them stay healthy. Encourage them to get toonup
•Use your unites sparingly and wisely. Get the toons who are badly damage to come to an area to do a unite TU on them. (whisper to them and give them time to come) If they refuse, that is their prerogative. Don’t fault them. Help who wants to be helped. (Don't neglect what you are doing unless a toon really needs help with their laff)
•If you’re lagging or are having latency issues, be much more alert to what is happening. (restart your program before each CEO usually helps with memory leak/lag/latency)
•The golf tees are safer for lagging toons, but we NEED to have seltzer battlers, so be wise in your decision.
•Stay with the job you are comfortable with, BUT if all the golf positions are filled, do what is necessary to win, do the seltzer bottle.
•The CEO will target your table and try to run over you. Don’t wait too late to use the escape and get out of his way. Since 4 seltzer battlers should be out there battling, there will be free tables to use when the CEO crushes a table down temporarily. Find an empty table and battle him again. Watch your laff. Don’t get dangerously low (75-85% is a healthy laff for this battle)
•Don’t TAKE food gag toonups from a more needful Toon. I emphasize this very very much. If you are at: e.g.: 45laff and another toon is at 20laff, PLEASE let them get their laff up first. This is GOOD teamwork and imperative to keep all of the toons in battling health.
•It is a long battle and can be tedious, but you must NOT give up and don’t be running around doing nothing. Your toon pals depend on your being useful as well as kind.

[color=black]CEO Reward - 1 pink slips which show up in your gag selection screen for each CEO you successfully complete. It takes one pink slip to fire any size cog. A huge cannon appears and the cog is inside the barrel and is shot out of sight with a boom, plus his damage value is display just before he's fired.

BE A TEAM PLAYER - TEAMWORK ALWAYS ASSURES A BETTER CHANGE OF WINNING! ! !

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yes fine and all but...there is also a very low accuracy of a Downsizer in a waiter suit which will be easy to defeat!!! the CEO has a few wicked attacks (Fore!) also when you are serving the cogs,DON'T try to make a cog angry!!! using a singer in the served cogs will be a good strategy with a few fogs!!! when your laff is almost RUN FOR YOUR LIFE to the conveytor belt to earn toon-up!