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[octavius]

Fall and Rise of the Sharai for HoMM 3.

 

[DraQ]

Damn, getting the record on first try is such a great feeling:

That's just your best score.
For instance:

Well, there are 3 different scores, one of them being the cycles.

By the way, apparently the best solution to that level is like 15 cycles.

The fuck? I can only go down to 17 and it looks like maximum rate:

Smol, more normal solution:

 

[FeelTheRads]

The fuck? I can only go down to 17 and it looks like maximum rate:

Spoiler

Apparently that's the hard limit.

 

[Viata]

I see. I didn't know that. Thank you!
So there are 3 different limits: least area, least cycles and least costs, right?

 

[FeelTheRads]

I see. I didn't know that. Thank you!
So there are 3 different limits: least area, least cycles and least costs, right?

Yes. The histograms show how you did compared to the rest of the people playing.
If you're on the highest bar, it just means you're average.

 

[DraQ]

The fuck? I can only go down to 17 and it looks like maximum rate:

Spoiler

Apparently that's the hard limit.

The first one is actually nice (it also has glitchy gif, I will need to replicate it and look in game). The second is a bit kludgy.

 

[HansDampf]

Opus Magnum is really great for the first half of the campaign. But after chapter 2 you've seen almost everything. There are no surprises except for the bonus chapter at the end. It's probably a good way to get into the genre. But coming from SpaceChem it's a mechanical downgrade. Too bad that game looks like ass in comparison.

Speaking of which

Spoiler

 

[Alienman]

It's like watching "how does it work" on discovery.

 

[Viata]

I like how the process of developing this things goes. First you spend some time thinking how to solve it:

It's the usual "it's ugly, slow, but works". Then you starts to think that you can optimize this shit(you are an engineer and the maintenance of this ugly shit may kills you) and you start to see you could remove some cycles and getting something a lit bit faster:

Now you start thinking that maybe you can decrease the cost of it:

While this pleases you, it doesn't look as ugly as the last version, but it is slower. And everyone hates when a new update makes the game slower. Now, it would be greater if you could keep this cost, but slow down the cycles. Thankfully, the market creates cheaper arm that can be used:

Thus we got to the second version, but cheaper. While this is far from the best model, I think this it the best I can get without changing the whole model. But in that case, it's better to start it over than trying to remove things here and there from this model. And that is why I may suffer from autism and why this is a fun game.

 

[DraQ]

I usually try to make the solution (both the code and mechanism) as simple as possible, and also involve spinny things (rotors give opportunity to "wind" some shapes plus they sometimes allow omitting reset phase - and they look cooler).

Here I have manage to sperg some cost and area (just area would be easy with telescoping arms) out of cycle optimized stabilized water without dropping speed.
In before someone puts all those arms on 1-2 super-tight looping tracks without losing speed for maximum autism - I tried but for some reason kept fucking up the code.

I thought I had a genius idea to drop one of the arms and a bit of track, but it turned out you really need to be dead-center on glyph for it to work, almost dead-center doesn't count.

 

[Curratum]

For some reason I only rank well on the "Area" parameter, even though I never optimize, they just come out that way.

 

[Viata]

I have not used track enough. So far only twice, the first time it teaches you and another one I can't remember now. I'm still at chapter 1(the one after the tutorial).

I went full autism on this one because I didn't even see it gives me 3 reagent until I finished it. So far I'm just learning stuff, for example, in this stage I learned how you could keep bonding reagents since I thought you could only do it up to 4(the gliph of multi-bonding only has space for four reagents). So that is cool. After I finish it I'll go back to try to go low cycle as possible.

 

[DraQ]

For some reason I only rank well on the "Area" parameter, even though I never optimize, they just come out that way.

Y U NO SPINNY THINGS

 

[Viata]

Damn, that is so cool.

 

[Curratum]

Y U NO SPINNY THINGS

As I said, I always, unwillingly, intrinsically optimize for Area. And mine's 30, while yours is nearly twice that.

I wonder if that's some leftover Spacechem thing where I always ran out of space and had to think as compact as possible?

 

[Citizen]

Takes a lot of vodka to kill an ukrainian

Let's hunt those bricks comrade

TFW no kielbasa on your bread

 

[DraQ]

Y U NO SPINNY THINGS

As I said, I always, unwillingly, intrinsically optimize for Area. And mine's 30, while yours is nearly twice that.

But less than half cycles and cost.
I usually try to keep things compact, but that usually just means avoiding dead space between components. Swinging out a product or unused part of rotor can add a lot of area but feels better than just having a small bunch of long arms swinging stuff back and forth across several screens of sparse components.

Incremental upgrade:

 

[HansDampf]

You are working on a hex field, and rotation is the cheapest and fastest method to move molecules along even large distances. Using only tracks and piston arms feels unnatural.

 

[DraQ]

The absolutely best, most way to transmute iron salt into a copper salt.

 

[Viata]

Breaking the bond and them bonding it again was a really cool idea there.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Meanwhile my head hurts from trying to bond the sword alloy.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Vercingetorix finds himself in a bit of a pickle during the battle of Alesia Djenne.

But he returns home safely just a short 40 years later. Hail to the chief.

 

[Dramart]

Baldur's Gate 2

Spoiler

The battle begins

Drizzt (he didn't do anything in the battle)

Viconia destroying the enemy with level six spells

Bye Bodhi

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Spoiler

 

[Sigourn]

Baldur's Gate 2

Spoiler

The battle begins

Drizzt (he didn't do anything in the battle)

Viconia destroying the enemy with level six spells

Bye Bodhi

I couldn't help but notice: is there are a reason why you don't have transparency enabled for magic spells? I presume your fog of war isn't transparent either and looks pixelated instead.
I ask because I had issues with my own trying to run that graphics option, with the game's graphics being bugged.