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badp

21:07

Quick, everybody upvote @Less NOW!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@badp I'm at the cap :(

Brant

21:20

Quick opinion poll on this:

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Q: How short can a minecart booster be while retaining its effectiveness?

How many squares of "boost" does a minecart need to reach maximum momentum? How many vertical blocks can a cart climb per square of booster track, assuming the cart goes straight up after leaving the booster area?

What I really want to know is "What's the formula to determine how high a cart will go per tile of booster track"

badp

@Brant do boosters even work still?

Brant

Is that too drastic an edit or should I just ask another question?

Yeah, they do.

it's technically a bug, but one of those things that I don't see notch changing any time soon, IMO

Feeds

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Q: Make VATS the Default in Fallout 3?

Is there a way to always use VATS in Fallout 3? If I hit "V", it goes to the VATS system and then when the turn is over, it goes back to real time combat.

fallout-3

Brant

I guess I'll just open a new question and see what the community thinks about it; if it gets closed as a dupe then it might at least get some google juice.

LessPop_MoreFizz

That's an odd question. VATS isn't really a turn per se.

Feeds

21:47

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Q: How do mine cart physics in Minecraft work?

Assume a mine cart travels through a booster with a diagonal slope afterward. How high up will the cart travel for each tile it is boosted? For example, how long will my booster track have to be to send a cart from bedrock to cloud level? (strixvaria's answer to my previous question was informat...

minecraft minecarts

badp

@Brant It's hard to resist commenting "OVER NINE THOUSAND"

Brant

I tried to work an "assume a spherical mine cart in a vacuum" joke in there.

StrixVaria

@Brant that question is still a dupe of the old one. Reading the body text of the two is pretty much identical.

Even though my answer to your first one didn't exactly answer your question. I don't know the answer to your real question

Brant

Yeah... I know, it's kind of dupe-y

badp

May I change the title to "How can I build enough momentum to get a minecart from bedrock to cloud level?"

@Brant

I've used the "be bold" editing policy so far but I've been grated for that recently

StrixVaria

21:54

@badp Even if you do that it's still the same question. "How many squares up can I go per square of booster?"

Brant

@badp: That's a good idea, I'll do it

StrixVaria

no matter which way you twist the math

it's the same problem

Brant

hmm, yeah.

badp

@StrixVaria You're assuming you can build a single booster sufficiently long

StrixVaria

You can.

badp

21:55

Going up 128 meters, I'm not so sure.

Brant

@strix Really, what I should have done is just removed the first sentence of my original question, but that would have invalidated your entire answer

StrixVaria

There is no cap to energy, just to velocity

you maintain maximum velocity longer for a longer booster

even after going up 128 squares

as i stated in the answer to the original question that i wrote

badp

okay, so the problem is you didn't put a formula in there :)

StrixVaria

I don't know the formula, only that one exists

I know the properties of the formula but not the constants

badp

@StrixVaria Extrapolate one.

StrixVaria

21:56

Way too lazy

badp

Okay, fuck the reputation league then. Let's see if 250 rep can unlazy you.

StrixVaria

I'll probably come up with an answer tonight

if you do that

badp

Done.

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Q: How short can a minecart booster be while retaining its effectiveness?

How many squares of "boost" does a minecart need to reach maximum momentum? How many vertical blocks can a cart climb per square of booster track, assuming the cart goes straight up after leaving the booster area?

minecraft minecarts

StrixVaria

Well I leave work in 2 minutes and I already had tonight dedicated to minecraft anyway.

I'll just be playing single player instead of SMP now

Brant

I'm just going to delete my dupe and edit the original, since badp put a bounty on it.

StrixVaria

21:58

Sounds good

user30

Ohoh conversations, I hadn't noticed that before

Brant

(BTW, this whole thing was a scheme to ruin @badp's standings in the weekly reputation leagues)

badp

Meh, they're piss poor anyway.

Hadn't I cast any bounties, I'd have 4,322 rep.

Hence I'm expecting a brilliant answer, charts and all :P

Now to gain the rep back :/

Oak

22:59

@Lee not a lot of questions have been deleted so far, just about a handful each month.

@badp nice, highest bounty so far

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