Chronic Logic

http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=33" target="_blank">Master Scores List (Just so you folks know it exists. Bookmark it =)

(Edited by falkon2 at 6:56 am on Oct. 31, 2001)

c03 - 29515

b: Are you sure those scores are for "Hard" difficulty?

Edit: c4 - 10912 =P Talk about a narrow margin! 6 bucks is barely enough to buy me some McD's =)

(Edited by falkon2 at 10:43 pm on Oct. 23, 2001)

Aw man. Amidst the mess and confusion that is both my life and my current computer status, I only managed to squeeze in a meagre amount of pontifex time, so I threw this 109229 monster together in half an hour

Maybe next time I'll put up more of a fight, ne? =)

Congrats, sir Maximus =P

Lost... all... my... old... bridges...

Gah, its been a long time since I played Pontifex, and now I don't even have my old references to go by for designs.

Ah well.

I've downloaded the contest bridge. I'm still trying to get it to work, then maybe I'll post my initial score =)

Actually, if you have access to a paint program, you can test the strength of your bridge as a percentage as follows. (this is using PSP)

1) Take screenshot of max stress after train has run completely.

2) Open up in Paint Shop Pro, go to adjust/Brightness & Contrast

3) Turn contrast to 100, and brightness to 100.

4) Now slowly decrease brightness to -100. The moment you see black creep into your bridge members, record the brightness level, divide by two and add 50. This will give you percentage upon hundred of the strength of your bridge.

New challenge... Build the strongest (I.E. least deformation) bridges for all the levels.

Which bridges are stronger? They obviously must be clean, but you can build as much as you want as long as it's in budget.

I think a nice feature for the next version of Pfx would be a "max tension" percentage, sorta like the max stress indicator in the current build, but giving you the highest stress value among all the joints

But for now, an easy way to gauge the percentage of stress toward the breaking point would be to set your stress colors to white as no stress and black for both expansive and compressive tension.

No official compilation I know off so far, but don't hesitate to ask for a specific level on this board.

As a general rule, when there are anchors above the bridge away from the banks, triangle spam isn't the best method.. triangle spam is only strongest when the only anchors are at the banks.

For this bridge I just connected a level deck to the anchors with lots of cable. I supported the center by sorta 'crossing' cables and hangong off that.

No, if you build any type of member, then remove the bar, the white dot at the end of the member still remains, and it costs Ũ. You can have an infinite number of them. Just build them very high up and the'y break from the fall =)

You can build an infinite number of those little cute boxlets at no extra costs, making the limit to the number of broken links the limit of your processing power =)

... Yeah, they don't seem to work in v19

Maybe it was related to the snap-to-grid bug?

http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=15" target="_blank">Simple
s01 - 6522 - Gray
s02 - 13664 - falkon2, jcbuff
s03 - 17600 - falkon2, jcbuff
s04 - 20478 - falkon2 on Gray's
s05 - 25188 - falkon2
s06 - 26784 - Dreadnough
s07 - 32568 - falkon2
s08 - 43072 - falkon2
s09 - 61536 - falkon2
s10 - 43672 - falkon2
s11 - 51148 - Gray
s12 - 59056 -Chillum
s13 - 56814 - Gray
s14 - 46784 - falkon2
s15 - 91982 - Gray
s16 - 91957 - Gray

http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=22" target="_blank">Complex
c01 - 7806 - falkon2
c02 - 20508 - Chillum
c03 - 29178 - Gray
c04 - 8615 - The Tick
c05 - 30840 - falkon2
c06 - 48332 - falkon2
c07 - 30854 - Gray
c08 - 65197 - Gray
c09 - 53202 - Gray
c10 - 70026 - Gray
c11 - 14918 - The Tick
c12 - 50112 - Gray
c13 - 92018 - Gray
c14 - 69780 - Gray
c15 - 19174 - Gray
c16 - 51241 - Gray+alcor

http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=7" target="_blank">Map Pack 1
101 - 53218 - alcor
102 - 36292 - Gray
103 - 70928 - Gray
104 - 27110 - Gray
105 - 47848 - alcor
106 - 22946 - alcor
107 - 116684 - falkon2
108 - 15774 - alcor
109 - 81304 - alcor
110 - 54904 - alcor
111 - 81334 - nfelder
112 - 61138 - falkon2
113 - 38484 - Gray
114 - 66200 - arthurdent
115 - 142374 - alcor
116 - 222796 - falkon2

http://www.chroniclogic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=32" target="_blank">Map Pack 2, DarkWolfNine's (DWNXX)
DWN01 - 27981 - Dreadnough
DWN02 - 14308 - falkon2
DWN03 - 33320 - falkon2
DWN04 - 13960 - falkon2
DWN05 - 44478 - falkon2
DWN06 - 30832 - falkon2
DWN07 - 53312 - Dreadnough
DWN08 - 43980 - falkon2
DWN09 - 64884 - falkon2
DWN10 - 70000 - falkon2
DWN11 - 73820 - falkon2
DWN12 - 45242 - falkon2
DWN13 - 49696 - falkon2
DWN14 - 186906 - falkon2
DWN15 - 31338 - falkon2
DWN16 - 266428 - falkon2

(Edited by falkon2 at 5:57 am on Nov. 20, 2001)

I agree with Chillum on this one... everything goes except that falling bridges lose to bridges that are connected solidly to at least one anchor point for records. Come on, the anchors are there for a reason (And no, its not so you can start building stuff then delete the connecting link =) )