But after a decade of retail work, he went looking for “the next big thing.” Joe Pellettieri began his career as a self-professed “numbers guy.”Īfter receiving his MBA in marketing and finance from Indiana University, he worked as a buyer for various department stores around the Midwest. And in the process, it sold hundreds of thousands of units.īut in an industry where few products hit it big, how did a plaque-mounted singing fish become one of the most iconic gag gifts in history? It started with a guy named Joe It made a guest appearance on an episode of the Sopranos. It graced the walls of George Bush’s oval office and Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral castle. The animatronic latex fish could be found floppin’ and singin’ on the shelves of every major retailer and toy store. In the year 2000, Big Mouth Billy Bass was inescapable. How a robotic singing fish made $100 million in one year This edition of The Hustle was brought to you by Eight Sleep… forget the night sweats. With parallax you can pull them in into fuses or other high damage turrets for maximum efficiency.In a world of few hits and constant misses, how did a singing fish mounted on a plaque end up being one of the most iconic gag gifts in history? In this case OP was seemingly talking about units that can outrange your emplacements with their guns (t3+ units?) just by hovering slightly out of it's reach. You're not supposed to use them as main means of dispatching air units. But the fact that all Parallax in a bank will all target the same closest enemy limits their usefulness, even against high-tier guardian units (since those are accompanied by swarms). I'm glad that enemies have more ways to bypass defenses, and more difficulty is always good. That being said, I'm not complaining in any way.

Targeting different enemies would be much more useful because it would tractor more of them (especially bombers) away from the sensitive parts of your base.

So, be they fast fighters or slow bombers, Parallax are unable to keep even a small swarm from getting past your front line, however briefly. Parallax aren't that great as swarm protection because a cluster of several Parallax will all target the first enemy to come into range until it's dead, rather than each targeting a different enemy. Originally posted by Shazbot!:Since when parallax is end game weapon? (i generally skip the mid tier towers myself tho and stay with scatter and lancer only, untill i can build meltdowns, and i do just fine with that^^) Generally by wave 25 you probably should already have some mid game towers that can deal with wall climbers and mid tier flyers Just place a control center at your defence and put it on RALLYĪll your attack units will move there then and attack nearby enemies (doesnt work well with early tier flyers like the bomber or the flare, works fine with everything else) You just get into trouble against flyer spamm like dozens of high shield bombers at onceĪnd if the attacking air units are too far away from your towers (so most likely the tier 3 bomb-launching ones):Ī few parallax will pull them in (electric tower that just needs some some early game resources like silicon and pulls flyers towards them)Īlso a few megas/ poly s (green flyer tier 2/3) will repair faster than they destroy, so them shooting at walls in front of your air defence actually doesnt matter, they just cant do anything then^^ It's even made easier with the new pause systemĪctually, even a scatterer-spamm can defend against higher tier flyers just fine. Keep listing ridiculous stuff if you wantīy wave 20-25 I should have high tier defences and a good production of every ressources. Also, V6 is meant to be a quite heavy overhaul, you should just make another save and start over, like it was meant to be done. Here we are talking about a smaller game. Well he removed building that were not in the game anymore, why would you keep something if you can't use it anymore? Because, several tens of other games have done it with no issue, longer running map saves are absolutely wrecked by this, there is really no reason not to aside from keeping the workload smaller, 'they owe you nothing' has never been an argument, I dunno, I can keep listing stuff.Īlso, if round 20-40 is endgame, we are playing different games. The command center works for every units together last time I played Originally posted by Arpente Reves:End game units should be countered with end game turrets, I don't see the problem here.

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