mark_man wrote:TAKEN from the rule's:-exploding pieces by intersecting materials and endnodes, will win the Dark Force prize if they score higher than the best light solution.
That part of the rules was written assuming that exploding the pieces helped you in some way. merely exploding pieces without benefitting from them exploding shouldn't be dark IMO.
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Is force that doesn't benefit you dark?
By my interpretation of the rules, no it isn't. Also, in my opinion
If you want to add a fun force contraption in the corner of your solution which doesn't help you, and you still somehow win, then you certainly deserve the light prize!!!
What is to be done about the cloth bug (cloth goes through cloth quite easily)?
This is a pain but it is usually just welding so is light.
Is metal sheets drawn through cloth (weldingish) being used to break the cloth dark?
This is a tough one. If the cloth breaks because of weight on it, then sure that is allowed. But if it breaks because of the crazy angle the metal is put through the cloth, then it is dark. However, unless the cloth is tensioned, I think you'll find it pretty hard to break cloth just by putting one piece of metal through it without overlapping any endpoints with material.
That said - as far as I can work out, cloth is a bit weird, it seems like it has a bunch of 'mini endpoints' in it, and overlapping with these causes more problems than going between them.
Currently, material not interacting with itself outside level boundaries counts as light. Should this be changed as unrealistic in real life, and therefore dark?
I beleive it should if it benefits you. If it's just a bunch of metal bars used as a weight which overlap once they go to low, then of course it shouldn't.
However according to the many successive applications of the rules in this situation, it is light. Takign advantage of other unrealistic things (eg: welding, the simplified friction and drag, anchor points etc...) are allowed too so it's not that unfair.
mark_man wrote:The rule makers really need to look at what is OK and what is not as this example opens up a can of worms
I agree, although the can of worms was already opened ages ago. We are just eating them now. Also, the 'rule makers' is the community.