ARF Contest A #1 (2006-08-09 to 2006-08-12 19:00 Forum Time)

[kingofthespill]

Welcome to contest A!

Submissions can be made to bens@hevanet.com.

The rules are the same as recent contests and discussion about them is here: http://armadillo.metaclassofnil.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=232

Edit: for simplicity name your solutions like this:
[YourForumName]-[DollarsRemaining]
or
[YourForumName]-[DollarsRemaining]-[SolutionName]

Example:
ARFC_A_I_Some Restrictions May Apply.kingofthespill-50-Expensive Fun.lvl

Good Luck!

[PeterT]

Whew. Quite hard for an "A" level, but should be doable. [edit: see below for clarification] Anyway, it's very untypical to say the least - I doubt we'll see many familiar techniques used here

[kingofthespill]

Perhaps your right. I am thinking it matches the "2 hours" by an average player, maybe that is too long?

I encourage people to give feedback on how challenging this one is to solve so we can gauge difficulty more appropriately for future "A" contests.

[BFC]

I see nothing to download

ah, it just appeared after I posted.

-BFC

[Malco]

Now thats what I call a quick turn around, I like it, my first impressions of the level are "woh" and "thats not going to be cheap" but it should be doable in two hours.

[PeterT]

Sorry
I wildly overestimated the difficulty initially as I didn't realize we had metal bars

I already finished it with a rather large sum remaining
The end of the .end is quite surprising

[BFC]

Yes the end of the end is pretty cool

btw king.. get out of my head!!! I had a very similar idea for a contest level. I plan to expand on this type of thing for future levels if I manage to win some more.

My solution is within the cost of 1 rocket total.

-BFC

[BioDroid]

lol, i completed the level but my solution was deleted , damn :S

[Toa the Boa]

1st try, 10 minutes, 7124 left.

[BioDroid]

I bet we all have same solution...

[Toa the Boa]

And I guess everyone just ignores that falling rubber.

[kingofthespill]

Yes the end of the end is pretty cool

btw king.. get out of my head!!! I had a very similar idea for a contest level. I plan to expand on this type of thing for future levels if I manage to win some more.

-BFC

Ok, np!

[Malco]

I spent 20 minutes trying to solve it with just rubber and string before I realised we had poles as well then it was only another 15 minutes and a few less $s before I had a working soloution. So as a newbie here I think it should be fine for this new category

[PeterT]

7300+
(To keep in steps of 100 for now )

I already have 3 completely different solutions, nice level!

[Weasel497]

$7296... Still tweaking though.

EDIT 1: $7304 as of now!