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AFRC B #XLVI from 18th July to 25th July 19:00 GMT
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:42 amby fringD
ARFC B 46 "Gauntlet"
submissions to
fringd@gmail.com
The winner will be the submission with the best light side solution. A dark medal will be awarded if a dark solution is cheaper than the best light side solution.
Contest rules link:
http://armadillo.metaclassofnil.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=277
Naming convention is:
[DollarsRemaining]-[YourForumName]-[SolutionName]
Example: 2994-CoolGuy-AllCloth
GMT Time link:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
This level should be hard, and take a long time to get cheap. hopefully it's not too hard or too gimicky. If so, chalk it up to amateurish foolhardiness. I'll be more ready next time.
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:42 amby Overlord
Superb level! Very easy to do, but hard to get cheap.
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:48 amby McGinge
Fantastic FringD!!! More of the same for other levels plz...
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:13 amby Ikerous
Very nice level, first one i've played in a while
2600+
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:28 amby McGinge
If objects are placed, not on top of nodes but touching next to them, and that gives them a speed boost in the simulation, is the solution counted as dark?
Exactly what is dark...
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:55 amby fringD
the exact line between light and dark is a bit blurry. don't worry too much about a tiny bit of "bumping" from things being too close. it's the sustained bumping which makes perpetual motion machines, or generates energy without rockets, that makes something dark. well, that and "placement smashing," destroying things that should be hard to destroy by placing objects very close to end nodes.
If two of your bits are just close to each other, and just get a little boost of speed from bouncing off each other when simulation starts... i think that's still light.
please don't try to find out exactly where i draw the line, though. it would break me.
ultimately the difference between light and dark is a little subjective, but you should know it when you see it, and so will i.
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:27 amby McGinge
2640+L
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:28 amby Ikerous
2700+
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:33 amby McGinge
light??
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:33 amby Ikerous
McGinge wrote:light??
Yup
Posted:
Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:35 amby McGinge
damn ike!!!
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:32 pmby luka1222
any chance of a pic of the level please
Posted:
Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:09 amby Ikerous
McGinge wrote:damn ike!!!
I seem to have run outta things to tweak though.
Who else is playing this one?
Posted:
Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:42 pmby NickyNick
Ikerous wrote:Who else is playing this one?
Me
I love such levels, first contest that I've won (ARFC A 45 Telegraph by Markman) was similar.
Beware!..
Posted:
Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:09 pmby Ikerous
Alright heres what happened. If anyone noticed this thread just got much much smaller. I was talking to McGinge through Private Messages yesterday and he said he wasn't competing in this competition so I sent him my solution so he could see how kick ass it was. Through this he learned something very kewl about how to do the level which he is now telling several people and advertising in this thread.
DON'T DO THAT