AR2 A 207 Titanic (ends 08 Oct 2012 @ 16h00 GMT)

[bythelee]

Welcome to the 207th AR2 A contest: Titanic

Uh-oh.
Orlandillo Bloom is stuck down in steerage class at the bottom of the Titanic, and the iceberg is looming.
Can you get him safely into the lifeboat?

Rules:
1) The iceberg and water to the right of the ship are out of bounds. No interfering with the iceberg, no using of the water anchor points to the right of the ship.
2) The water anchor points to the left of the ship are also out of bounds. Only the iceberg is frozen, not the sea. However, the anchor points at the bottom of the lifeboat ARE available, as this is the bottom of the lifeboat hull. Likewise, the four anchors at the bottom of the Titanic are available.
3) The Titanic is doomed anyway. If your escape destroys the ship, that's fine.
4) If you knock another passenger (green dillo) out of the lifeboat, lose $100 per drowned passenger for being nasty.
5) If you sink the lifeboat (ie break either of the steel plates that touch the water at either end of the lifeboat) then lose £1000.

Rules 4 and 5 did not affect my testing greatly. Sometimes some parts of the lifeboat can break. That's OK, so long as none of the green dillos end up in the water, or the two end plates holding out the water get broken..... I consider the plates under the lifeboat to be the lifeboat hull (and unbreakable due to the anchor points) so if the green dillos get their seats broken, they end up in the bottom of the lifeboat, and not in the water alongside the lifeboat.
Any doubts, please ask!

Some prices have been changed to assist the escape.


AR2 Version 2.1.3 Beta is used, make sure you use the correct version.

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[bythelee]

EDIT: To help clarity, I've attached a second level file, showing the parts of the challenge which may be freely used for attachment. Please note this is for demonstration purposes only, and should NOT be used for submitting entries.

[Andrew]

Great level!
2000+
By the way, what's the exchange rate between £ and Armadillo Run $

[bythelee]

Currently 1:1 (£1 = AR$1)

The symbols are right next to each other on my keyboard.....

[KuzyaHG]

2002+

[Andrew]

wow, that's the smallest bid increment ever!
2222

[KuzyaHG]

2333+

[bythelee]

Hi Guys,

It was hard trying to decide the competition "rules", and it might help to add some more clarification.

Iceberg:
You are not allowed to deliberately slow down or stop the iceberg.
Some slower solutions might benefit without the time pressure of the looming impact, and it would be trivial to add a brake to stop it completely.
So, anything that is done with the deliberate intention of changing how the iceberg moves is illegal.
Accidental or intended use of the iceberg to help with the dillo escape is acceptable, provided that changing the movement of the iceberg is not the motive.
If the dillo (and/or his escape apparatus) happens to bounce of the iceberg, that's fine.
If you build something that changes what the iceberg does, as a separate event from what the dillo is doing, then that's probably illegal.

Water:
Only the iceberg is frozen, not the sea. So the "water" is not a structural element.
The water anchor points are all out of bounds, on both sides of the ship. (But please note that this does NOT include the anchor points along the bottom of the lifeboat.)
It would also be illegal to build plates or cloth or rubber that crosses over the water plates.
However, anything that lands on the water by dropping from above will be considered to be debris that floats on the water, and hence legal.
Orlandillo will obviously bounce on the water (he's got incredible buoyancy!), so any other solid material that does likewise will be OK.

There have been quite a few interesting submissions so far. Mostly legal, but one or two that made me think the above clarifications would help.

Regards,
Alex

[Andrew]

2525+

[KuzyaHG]

2552+

[Andrew]

2579+!

[Alex]

2650+