benmachine's engineering challenge thread

[Puma]

We had to get 2 eggs up there, or is Puma showing off ?

100 eggs.

Got it, verified it. Although I'm suspicious of how you managed to call up an overmind blueprint while the old one was still alive, it was ultimately of no consequence.

Will ask somebody to transfer...

[Iltama]

Are Paradox's and Taiyo's pictures actualy challenges or just....something else :?

[Taiyo.uk]

They're just bbox-drawmodel displacement bugsploits.

[Mispeled]

Bah, and I thought I was cool for figuring out how to put an egg in S1 on top of the box in default alien base on Karith.

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

I know the answer:

`
/god
/noclip

And Hi-Ho theyre off!

[AKAnotu]

pm sent!

you too taiyo!

[AKAnotu]

i have one for you

winners:
patriotpie
yourmama

[Patriotpie]

20 minutes into Monday. PM'd. :O
I'll try your challenge next, AKAnotu

[benmachine]

20 minutes into Monday. PM'd. :O
I'll try your challenge next, AKAnotu

Should've specified UTC I guess ;) it's still Sunday where I am
Everyone: you have until I post in this thread again, which will not be for at least 9 and a half hours but could be any time after that.

Verified AKAnotu and patriotpie.

Also thanks to nux and puma for sending me some nice ideas for future challenges. Feel free to send me them, anyone, and I will consider them for inclusion. I'm still not entirely sure which idea I'm going to use for the next challenge, it may well be one of yours :)

[benmachine]

Double post, so sue me.

And... it's over!
Due to the large number of images, links et al I've assembled a webpage detailing the results, distributing cookies (and one gold star) and linking everyone's demo.
Cookie stocks ran low towards the end of the entries, so I'm afraid not all of you got a whole one. Such is life! Get in quicker next time.
http://www.bandstand.org.uk/~benm/trem/engineer-challenge/01/winners.xhtml

And for the next challenge, I'm bringing out the big guns:

Go!
Note: you are only allowed 100BP, so you must leave no buildables behind elsewhere. You need not replicate the base exactly, but I require that all thoes buildables be present somewhere near where they are at least.

[AKAnotu]

my use of layout? it was just me and some other guy fooling around on layout and i saved it, wich i shouldn't have

[benmachine]

my use of layout? it was just me and some other guy fooling around on layout and i saved it, wich i shouldn't have :(

You did the challenge in layout edit mode, that's what I meant. But like I said, it doesn't matter.
I should update the first post I guess.

[Raytray]

Heh, now if only I could eat that cookie. Second one done

[AKAnotu]

done!

[Bullislander05]

Great!  Looking forward to trying this one out.

By the way, my name is Bull Islander.  The town I live in is nicknamed Bull Island, so naturally I'm a Bull Islander.  =)

-Bull

*Edit:  Any stage limits in this challenge?  I'm assuming you're limiting to stage 1 humans, because a jetpack would solve this easily.

[benmachine]

*Edit:  Any stage limits in this challenge?  I'm assuming you're limiting to stage 1 humans, because a jetpack would solve this easily.

Yup, same rules. Probably most of my bases are going to be s1, because the movement tools of s2 on both teams are just too powerful to make anything difficult.
And Bull Islander... can't believe I missed that combination :P excuse my insatiable curiousity.
Initial impressions, by the way, appear to be that this is a lot easier than I thought :( there are at least two shortcuts of which I wasn't aware. Finding difficult problems is harder than it seems I guess.

[AKAnotu]

stupid fat hobbit! your ruining it

[benmachine]

>_>

[Geni3]

get rid of teh quote then benmachine

[next_ghost]

I'm not doing this one until someone fixes that damn clipping bug on that light where I'm supposed to build 5 turrets. :roll:

BTW, the PK3 was a cheap excuse for zipping the demo.

[benmachine]

There's whole areas of transit you can walk through, jetpack through, see through... it patently wasn't designed with jetpackers/wallwalkers/pouncers in mind.

If you're really having trouble, I suggest building a medistat to stand on while you place the turrets, and when necessary only walking along the edges of the light.

I had intended to let this challenge run til Friday, but it doesn't seem to be going so well so I'll probably post a new one on Wednesday or Thursday.

[Overdose]

I figured it out last night in about 5 minutes, but it was already past midnight and after a long day I needed to go to bed. So my demo will have to wait until later this afternoon.

[/dev/humancontroller]

ben, the reason you didn't see much building, because

1. I don't know what you want untill you tell me. I kept away from the time-consuming boring videos.
2. I've made the least building needed to build an egg there, just as if I were in a real game, where building speed is important.
3. I thought the placement was strict, that is, in your demo you rebuilt the overmind, I didn't.

So please stock up another cookies for me next time.

[Eeeew Spiders]

So please stock up another cookies for me next time.

Sorry Spiders, I'm running out, so you get the other half of /dev/humancontroller's cookie, even though you built like eight eggs - get there quicker next time! It's the larger half though:

forget it controller, i am not giving back my half of the cookie!

[benmachine]

First of all, I made the "prize" intentionally worthless so that people wouldn't whine if they didn't get one. I am guilty of blatant favouritism but it doesn't matter because all you got was a little jpeg anyway.
What I didn't like about your demo is that I didn't see how you built all those buildings - just how you used them in the end. This is a building competition, not a jumping on buildings competition.

The fact was, I only bought one packet and I wanted to give a whole one to Puma because he sent me a bunch of other useful stuff. I already spent 59p on you ungrateful bastards and I am not spending any more :P
(well I say I spent it on you... but no prizes for guessing where the cookies went after I'd pictured them)

If you want a whole cookie you're either going to have to be nice, or be quick.

[UnnamedPlayer]

Challenge completed, PM sent.

[AKAnotu]

dont forget about gold stars!
lol, not even worth a monetary amount, just a jpeg
their sweet tho, cus then you can brag!
reminds me of the movie school of rock. GOLD STAR! good ideas on the build challenges tho ben!

[Vector_Matt]

I had intended to let this challenge run til Friday, but it doesn't seem to be going so well so I'll probably post a new one on Wednesday or Thursday.

Please let it run till Friday, I got a new hdd and I need to install the os and trem on it. I should be able to try this Thursday.

By the way, nice cookie pictures. And thanks for starting these challenges.

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

Great!  Looking forward to trying this one out.

By the way, my name is Bull Islander.  The town I live in is nicknamed Bull Island, so naturally I'm a Bull Islander.  =)

-Bull

*Edit:  Any stage limits in this challenge?  I'm assuming you're limiting to stage 1 humans, because a jetpack would solve this easily.

But why the 05 at the end, are you the fifth Bull Islander to exist, or aliev?

[Bullislander05]

To be quite honest, I picked the 05 because I made the name in 2004 (It was december so I figured 05 would be a bit better).  Also, I looked and there already was a Bullislander.

To be back on topic, I don't think I'll be able to do any more challenges Benmachine, seeing that I've quit trem.  I'll keep checking the forums to see what the challenges are though (So I can figure out a solution in my head.  =))

Thanks for making a fun competition.

-Bull