The Powder Toy

bank robbery by jacob1

jacob1
jacob1
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5th Jul 2013
7th February
My entry for BuysDB's bank heist contest WARNING: It's extremely slow, taking up to 15-25 minutes to finish. But it is designed to get EVERY gold and pqrt. 2025 Update: Fixed some bugs causing the alarm to set off in recent versions
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Comments

  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    out of a possible 696. My CONV really destroys a lot of it ... I should try making that better somehow. Also the machine fell apart at the end when there was too much LAVA and it couldn't push the things properly. And two other times it randomly failed but I pressed ctrl+z and it didn't happen again.
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    updated, now a bit faster. I'll say maybe about 5 minutes faster ... also I calculated my final score after finishing and it was 396
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    back to fixing it, I fixed where it might go too far or too short randomly due to the BTRY. But I found one of my previous fixes broke it from getting anything in the second farther box of stuff. Although it looks like most likely that won't be a problem since I was testing it in a strange way where I only had it get one load from each column at a time.
  • xetalim
    xetalim     9th Jul 2013
    @jacob1:Lol, lots of comments, almost looks like spam:D
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    which wifi? Does the one on the crane melt? I thought I fixed it ... and I could put INSL on top and make the crane one higher in total since I do have 2 extra pixels of height to put more FRME, but I don't want to redesign things now unless I absolutely have to.
  • BurningKid101
    BurningKid101     9th Jul 2013
    it still breaks.. D: jacob1 you have to fix the wifi..
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    also found the cause of it sometimes going too far or too short. I guess it depends on how exactly the BTRY is when a SWCH is turned on, if it's turned on at the wrong time then sometimes one too many or one too little sparks will get through. I'll look for an alternate more reliable way.
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    I could tecnhically make it a ton faster now but I won't just to guarantee I do better :)
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    Updated again, I realized I could set the tmp of the PSTN on the crane to a high number too and it would still work, and not fail when a peice of FRME or something else gets stuck in it on the way to pick up another load. Now for my next full test
  • jacob1
    jacob1     9th Jul 2013
    Updated with my changes, it's now faster at starting and shouldn't fail. The only thing i've seen fail is when it doesn't extend to the correct length, i'm still not sure why that happens randomly, but it only happens for the second column at the start for some reason that i've seen.