I wonder if any of the chess players managed to reach 23000? ;)
My absolute maximum was 23034. This was one of the test runs with a full effort. :) But since it wasn't done from a starting save, I can't submit it for credit, even though the save is no different. On this map, all starting saves that do not give Galtran an artifact increasing his initial skills can be considered absolutely equal to each other. But formally, that would be a violation... Otherwise, I probably ran through it about ten times... By the final run, I no longer had the strength to strive for the optimum...
So your estimates are very logically constructed. The upper bound of the interval is what's truly interesting. We will see the lower bound in practice.
