NEW ELEMENT: RBTRY

  • Rainbow3
    14th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    One thing I've noticed in The Powder Toy is that its hard to make any kind of

    realistic battery. We have a BTRY element, that produces unlimited power,

    but what about a more realistic battery that has limited charge, that could be recharged?

    PSCN to charge. NSCN to discharge.

    Possibly have it so that you could tweak how fast it charges and discharges.

    It would also have a limit to how much you could charge it until it explodes.

  • bowserinator
    14th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    1. 4 Letters is really the max for element names, unless your element is called IIIII

    2. You can make a recharagable battery, people have done it. Making such a realistic battery isn't really that useful anyways since why would you want a battery that needs constant recharging and explodes in your computer your building, so unless you're trying to make the world's most realistic toaster it's pretty much pointless

  • wolfy1339
    15th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    This has already been suggested and declined.
  • zBuilder
    15th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    would each spark from PSCN give each touching particle life that steadily decreases over frames?

  • greymatter
    16th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    @Rainbow3 (View Post)
    With a little bit of programming knowledge, you can make this yourself. This was one of the only elements I tried to make and at least partially succeeded.

    You can increase it's tmp value for every spark received from PSCN, and if an NSCN is detected nearby, spark it with 1 tmp reduced with every spark.

    As for the element being in the official game, it is unlikely. It has been declined before, and it doesn't add much to the game.
  • xetalim
    16th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @wolfy1339 (View Post)

    Would you please, PLEASE, PLEASE^2 stop using that argument?
    If someone has a good suggestion, it doesn't mean that you should not consider it because "It has already been suggested."
    EDIT: It seems like a nice idea, just because someting is "useless" doesn't mean that something can't be fun.

    Look at WOOD.

    What uses does it have other than burning?

    Edited once by xetalim. Last: 16th Sep 2014
  • jacob1
    16th Sep 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    I was once extremely close to adding this, in the form of lithium (lithium batteries?, + some other reactions). I guess I never ended up doing that ...
  • Rainbow3
    17th Sep 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     

    Yeah! Thats exactly what I meant. Something like that. Just some sort of way to hold and release power.