Chronic Logic

Quote: from Chillum on 3:20 pm on Oct. 17, 2001
That's a coincidence... I had a level 2 bridge for 14308 exactly and I thought it was clean at first, but when I tested it a few more times it fell to bits :-O

Did you give it time to settle before you ran the train over, or run it over straight away?

(to do that I hit pause, reset, run train then hit pause again to get things moving)
Crap, this is wierd, I just ran the exact same design on my pc at home (P3-750) and on the 4th and final run a single link broke... but at my PC at work (P2-400) it cleared all 4 passes without a single break!  I wonder if the CPU speed affects the velocity of the train which in turn affects the stresses on the bridge.

All prices are done on hard, 0 broken link, and all 4 passes.

1.  6596 (I don't think this number can be improved on)
2.  14308 (This required thinking "out of the box")

New Record for #4 - 23764

It might be possible to go even cheaper than that but I haven't tried messing with it.

Try this one on for size, #4 - 17XXX with only 4 broken links after all 4 passes. http://www.pontifex2.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

LOL, well I just figured out what jcbuff did #2, he did the same thing I did, just a little bit different and for a little bit cheaper. http://www.pontifex2.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

#2 - 13,664 (I'll be damned if this one can be beat either) http://www.pontifex2.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>