It's not like you can't make a sonic boom gun without compression. It just needs more thought.

Nearly all bugs and exploits make maintainability an enormous pain, if all features of the exploit have to be kept intact.

Interactions between compressed particles, for example, depend on which update function the interaction occurs in. If stacked EMP is next to spark, all the EMP particles trigger because EMP checks for spark in its update function. However, if this was moved to the spark update function, then only a single stacked EMP particle would be triggered, not all of them. Why would we move it to the spark update function? Well, since EMP only interacts with spark, moving the interaction to the spark update function would allow the EMP update function to be removed, which should lead to an increase in speed in saves with EMP due to fewer functions being called.

Some of my other reasons for making stacked particles turn into BHOL, listed in the feedback thread, were:

They could be used to cause ridiculous amounts of lag, to make it hard to delete things, or to make it difficult to discover how a save works. Not to mention how much they offended my sense of physics...

"only a matter of time until SOAP rope gets disabled too"
Yes, that is a possibility. SOAP needs a bit of work - being able to crash the game from the console isn't an ideal situation. Plus soap bubbles aren't constant volume (even when no air is being created/removed inside them), but I don't think that's an easy thing to fix.

Don't rely on bugs, I'm sure everyone is capable of making awesome saves with just the normal game mechanics.

A sonic boom gun without compression:


I didn't spend a lot of time on it, plenty of room for improvement, but it does demonstrate the principle that some useful things can still be done with normal game mechanics.

@boxmein (View Post)
Correct, speed is always an issue. My laptop is sufficiently slow that dima-gord's destroyable city runs at 7 fps ;_;