corona_wind

Yes, it'd be wonderful for testing craft, seeing which engines are firing when.

Only paying steam customers get to write reviews. I can pay them $5 for the privilege of writing a review that doesn't count...

I have discovered how to unseat a fidget spinner: Magnetic flux. If it can't touch you, it can't throw you off course... And with that out of the equation any good sized bot is four times stronger than it. Cheesed an entire galaxy of two and three star arenas with it.

All it is is a direction indicator, four engines, and some tanks. The placement of the engines is very finicky, closer to the center and it moves faster but stalls at a nudge, too far out and it spins really fast but does more spinning than racing.

The Pearl Diver!

Can't write a review. Steam wants money first. [edit] and steam wouldn't take it anyway, apparently, since they hate humble.

An entire solar system of sumo rings and racetracks. Absolutely nothing else. I can't beat any of them yet either XD

Beat my best time on Cygnus with the hammer drill:

AFAIK, you don't. "early access" != "alpha tester". Wrong forum. Ignore that.

It never occurred to me to even wonder if weapons were permitted in solo. Bravo.

When's the last time we had a fire drill around here?

The outer rotors turn more than the inner one because the inner rotor is slower. This lets it anticipate curves instead of falling behind them, but rides the ragged edge of oversteering. Quote or select for details. speed 80 for inner rotor, speed 100 for outer rotors

Ooh, nice! It goes from hover mode to ship mode... I couldn't outsmart the snake. It still harasses innocent miners sometimes. Just got to move faster than it.

For the arms and legs, I named it "LASER GUIDED BABY" 😄 I didn't upload it if that's what you mean. There's a trick to it I'm hoping people will guess.

From the "if it looks stupid and works" department, drift compensation: 18.937 seconds.

You can use them to double-secure something, like a spring block connecting from the core to "open space" inside a hollow block. You can even build chains that way, hollow blocks secured to each other with springs, not really "connected" in game logic just kept together with forces and hitboxes.

Passive "avoid the edge" and "hold the center" strategies dominate the ring right now, but once in a blue moon you'll find something in random rotation which seeks your drone and takes it out. I call them active drones. Their strategy is to avoid the opponent until they're in a good striking position. They're persistent, difficult to confuse, stronger than radial designs, and eat "tricky" things alive. Idle Behavior Your drone shouldn't always move towards the target unless you feel like catching facefuls of magnets, bees, and rammers. It shouldn't sit still either, or the bees will come to you. Your drone must keep moving even when it's not busy attacking things. Building vertically avoids rammers! You can win an amazing amount of matches just by not being where anyone expected. After that, the tilted direction indicator lets it circle the ring (orbiting is just aiming for something and missing) until the forward sensors trigger other conditions. You can build a direction-follower you can turn off with NOR gates. They're like inverters you can turn off; X NOR FALSE = NOT(X) but X NOR TRUE = FALSE . So they get wired up like ENGINE_R = DIR_L NOR TARGET. Attack Behavior When TARGET is triggered, the idle behavior turns off, letting other gates do something else. Something like ENGINE_L = ENEMY_L AND TARGET. TARGET itself can be simple -- TARGET_L OR TARGET_R -- or as complicated as you want, including things like "give up and move away after 12 seconds".

How to make stuff orbit:

The uses of these things are severely hampered by their fixed internal reference points and how awkward they are to rotate physically. If they possessed a "gimbal" to rotate the inner reference point on keypress and a way to configure that in the editor, we could do so much more. Look at this drone, the Axe X: That funny "tail" which rotates a direction indicator on a joint? That's a gimbal built the hard way. It has so many uses it ends up everywhere on my designs despite how awkward, wobbly, huge, and fragile it is. I've used it for: Following walls very reliably. I completed all racetracks to the top 50 100 just following walls, until I realized 'next waypoint' was an option! Doh. Holding unbalanced drones on a straight line course. Catching and correcting overshoot for very fast turns without oscillation. A drift compensator to "lean into" curves on racetracks Tracking the size of the sumo ring Making sub-drones orbit the main drone at a distance. [edit] Angular accelerometers [edit] Tracking your drone's location on a planet They're really awkward to use in other ways. Observe the pair of 'eye's in that drone. I needed two since I didn't have room to rotate one at 45 degrees.

You can "cheat" a 4/6/etc input "or" gate with several or-gates all outputting to the same key. You can do the same thing for a many-input NAND gate.

How would this deal with logic parts?

I have one big fast smart drone which resists many strategies: Rushers and Missiles. They fly straight past. It's glorious. Bees, My God: Direction indicators don't fixate on garbage. Pure Muscle: Unless they turn very very fast, they get caught on the side. Edge Followers: Tracks the center to avoid being tricked out of bounds. Sometimes. Center Spinners: Not much but brute force works, got to be persistent and never get confused. Magnets: Big drift-thrusters compensate for off-center pushing. Just typing this out has given me a few more ideas.

I agree, to the point I suspect factories were always intended to consume resources, even in non-PVP, and just haven't been implemented yet. It's not something they should be too hasty about implementing, either. We don't want to get stuck with unbalanced placeholder numbers for resource costs (cough cough KSP cough cough).

Another place "inverted inputs" is really useful is the "output enable" above. It's so helpful to invert OE that, in real life parts, OE usually comes inverted. It'd mean sensors would come "default on" just like they are now unless you specifically pick a key to disable them, set OE to non-inverting, or both.

It could be another feature of "basic" blocks. Right now they have high/low friction and ice-resistant settings among others...