Opus Magnum

Just started this game.
How retarded am I?
Opus Magnum thread I guess.

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You're fucking retarded to the point of no salvation, cease the rights to your life right now OP
Try working on your loops, keep the machine working on the next product even as you're assembling the previous one

I posted this in the last thread as well. Working on a low cost solution to Purified Gold.

>low cost
speed is where its at.

i am a god

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I'm having trouble figuring out how timing, delays and resets work mostly.

like why the game forcibly removes resets sometimes among other things
also im dumb

ARMS!

You're gonna love my build user. If I can get it to work...

Only started playing recently myself, but from what i see the resets are related to the longest timeline in a single arm, if you have a giant timeline on an arm and another arm with just a standard 4 cycle it'll just stop unless you manually input more commands to it
However if everything you do has the same ammount of cycles in the timeline everything will be working on the same time, even if one of the arms is set to act later in the timeline if that makes sense

was this game literally made for autists

Honestly that's not too bad for a cheap, small area solution.

You could probably make everything loop better at the moment though. What you have already there could be faster if you eliminate some gaps from the repeating patterns.

thanks for the advice anons
atm I'm just focusing on trying solving them at all, I'll try to go back and make them more efficient if I ever get the gist of things.

I'm doing the marble matching game right now.

noice

Fixed up my jewel.

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THIS SHIT IS HARD

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This is what I got on my campaign playthrough. Probably falls somewhere between idiot and sperg.

op here
hows this?

also which of the three stats are the most important to keep low?

Minimise (Cost x Cycles)

>also which of the three stats are the most important to keep low?
whichever you feel like. If you're feeling like it, you can construct a giant contraption to move a single atom just for the fuck of it.

Whichever music you're hearing
Been listening a lot to Sonic soundtrack so always go for speed

unf

Anyway, I love this game and all the Zachtronics games I've played. Whether your solution is amazing or garbage, it's still YOUR solution. Feels good.

I've got a low cost one for you
It's 24.3 MB though so here's a link to the gif version
imgur.com/a/XoiDN

>2603 cycles

Gotta pass those savings on to the customer somehow.

>Each one is made with pride and care

Lipstick is notorious. I still haven't seen anyone posting a gif of max inputting it let alone truly optimizing it.

post a faster one

oh fuck I really don't think I could ever do anything like these
I had to come to the conclusion that I just don't have the right kind of brain for Factorio, might be the same case for this

holy fuck

>imgur.com/a/XoiDN
I think it's very easy to get caught up in how complicated those other machines look, but they all started the same way. First you make something sloppy that looks like shit and is slow, and you iterate and iterate and iterate. Take it slow.

Disregard the link, it was a bad paste.

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stop

hahahaahaa I'm not that smart

>when you can't get it to loop because you have to do non-4 blocks for efficiency and have to copy paste the whole program's output.

at least its pretty fast

The marble minigame is actually pretty fun

This guy gets it. It's all about dicking around with whatever methods suit you. If you have nothing, improvise.

I can't wrap my head around it.

Thanks user

I'm the kind of guy who counts on his fingers and gets left and right confused on a daily basis, and I'm basically just using trial and error to figure each one of these out. (I cant even tell which way the part is gonna rotate half the time unless I stop and think about it, despite the icons)
I doubt thats gonna cut it once things get really complicated

I'm already feeling overwhelmed on stamina potion.

see

maximum output

user! USING LONG ARMS IS CHEATING! Only single-length arm please. Here's mine (also on Imgur):

i.imgur.com/vBTafPB.gifv

Obviously.

The gif is 25.2 MB btw, so it's like >6 times the allowed space on this stupid board.

You're just saying that because yours costs more than mine

What is 5 gold when compared to 12 area? Yours is also 700 cycles shorter than mine. :(

22 area* shit

Very nice, senpai. Can you post the instructions?

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don't sell yourselves short anons

i'm also the creator of this monstrosity

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Why do people like puzzle games?

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The answer might be too much for your brainlet to process, but to sum it up they're -------------------------------------------------------------fun----------------------------------------------------------------------

Took some doing but I finally got this fucker to the 50.

You autists would absolutely love MIPS64

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To forget the pain

>can't pick up the elements made by production glyphs on the cycle they're made.

pure garbage.

Yeah that fucking bugs me. All it does is delay all of my timings by one cycle.

Some people enjoy challenging their wits more than their reflexes.

>reach chapter 3
>suddenly realize how woefully inadequate my tiny brain is

Even this one can probably be optimized further.

ok I did it, technically

Don't feel too bad.

You wanna see retarded? Let's get retarded

Seriously I'm terrible at the game send help

i tried to clean up the excess track but then the whole thing broke so fuck it btw

If you think about it, simply finding a solution to these puzzles already makes you smarter than the average normie. They get pretty fucking hard later on. Optimization is its own realm of autism.

I always try to go with as few and short arms as possible, low cost and area is my fetish

>smarter than the average normie
That's not particularly something to be proud of.

Sup Forums is full of normalfags. Zachtronic threads get zero traffic.

>Feel smart for solving a puzzle
>Followed by the feeling of dread that you did it so poorly that actual smart people would laugh in your face if they could

>get a solution you're proud of
>someone on your friend's list has a slightly more efficient solution
>can't ask them about it without basically admitting defeat, and the gnawing dread that they might see it and laugh at your tiny brain
a crushing feel

Just realized I could shave off a few cycles and area units

Honestly if this sort of shit scratches your autism itch, heavily modded minecraft offers significantly more complexity with a much more satisfying goal. The only thing about Minecraft is nobody gives a fuck what you do in it. This game wouldn't be nearly the same without the automatic gif making function.

I personally think there needs to be an improvement to the meta. There should be rewards or unlockable progress for performing certain solutions for puzzles. Low cycles is one, low area/low cost, etc. Right now people are just optimizing for fun, but if you rewarded them for putting the effort in it would be even better.

There is something fundamentally wrong with your entire being

>Socializing enough to even have someone on your friends list

>Right now people are just optimizing for fun
That's reward enough.

>hey, only 55g is pretty ni...
>2603 cycles
>ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP IT'S NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT IT'S NOT A DRILL!!!

>too poor to buy game
>no good torrents
fuck

this one was fun, turned out expensive tho

>>no good torrents

But that's wrong.

Obviously but that's beside the point.

wait is that fifth arm even doing anything?
well w/e its finished

the most up to date torrent is like 5 updates behind

Don't reply to me or my Van Berlo's wheel ever again.

Low cost

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Lol

Here is mine, I'm finally I naturally tend to making my solutions cheap, and small, but don't care much about speed.

You can speed that up by not making the 6-armed one move back between grabs.

>minimizing one attribute
>not multiplying cost x speed x area and reducing their total
i shiggy diggy

christ

This.

in what situation is the 6 arm best used?
I'm pretty early on in the game but I've never found a good use for it.

You only used piston arms, some of these don't extend and could be switched for fixed arms which are half the price.