rob wrote:Congrats bythelee!!! That must have taken ages
No, actually. Well, not in the way you're probably thinking, anyway.
The smaller pulleys were just a copy and paste job, so very quick to build. What's there, probably took 15 minutes max to put together.
And I quickly get through the very slow start by using "hyperspeed" - right-click on the "slow" button on the bottom right of the solving problem to get a "faster" mode instead of the usual slow motion using left-click.
What took time was the multiple tiny tweaks and adjustments to coax it past getting stuck early, or not breaking prematurely....
And I did spend a lot of time trying to get portal catchers to work.
Either having a lock behind the triangular sled (one did work, but the dillo ended up
just too low, poking out of the portal) or the two (eventually working) catchers that ignored the sled. But it was the rare result where the big pulley didn't break, heaving the dillo completely over the top of the ramp, that got me thinking about how to stall the system at the right moment.
But, hey, I was just happy to get it working without a rocket.
Mark_man's tweaks are surprising - I had many early pulley failures due to shock loads - just shows that the system has some very weak links while others are vastly over-engineered.