Manufactoria - freebie CompSci puzzle game

Shadowcat on 24/6/2010 at 13:25

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

Edit: even after I optimised my Robo Police to use an actually halfway decent algorithm, it still gives me that message. I guess it still needs more optimising!

I wonder if it's got problems with that level? I really don't consider my approach inefficient (certainly not so much that the tester should give up, at any rate!), but I'm getting the same message. Hmm.

henke on 24/6/2010 at 16:51

I can't be bothered searching this entire thread to see if an alternate link has been posted or if this is a new problem. If there is an alternate link to this game it should be added to the OP.

Al_B on 24/6/2010 at 16:52

Same problem here. I've had a look at your previous screen shot and I think I'm probably using the same or similar algorithm ((http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr99/Al_Bro/manuf_police.png) screenshot here). I can't see an obvious way to optimise it much more than that - but I've thought that about some other levels!

Edit: My (http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr99/Al_Bro/manuf_robochil.png) 19 piece robo-children solution has exactly the same problem - but if I change it to Assidragon's version then it doesn't run out of patience - despite the two algorithms being identical.

Nameless Voice on 24/6/2010 at 16:56

Henke: just the one link. The site might be down or busy, try again later? (It's working for me)

I completely rebuilt Police in another method which, while using more parts, required fewer iterations. It still runs out of patience, though. That's the third method I've tried for that problem, and it ran out of patience on all of them, but they all worked.

I'm quite pleased with my 8-part RoboSpies. :)
Once I actually took the time to work out exactly what it was supposed to be doing, it was easy.

Al_B on 24/6/2010 at 17:21

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

I'm quite pleased with my 8-part RoboSpies. :)
Once I actually took the time to work out exactly what it was supposed to be doing, it was easy.

Yes, same here. My first attempts were horribly complicated and it wasn't until I broke it down that inspiration struck.

smurfotep on 24/6/2010 at 18:36

Cool game. :D My Politicians are broken. Had a hard time with that one and Academics. At least the Academics solution works, even if it isn't the best. However, I am happy with these two, as they haven't blown up and I don't see a way of compressing them more:

Officers: 27 parts, 1501:20
Generals: 26 parts, 712:20

I still haven't determined a way to approach Judiciary, yet.

edit: Haven't quite reached Tonamel's 26 on Officers, but I'm close. :)

Al_B on 24/6/2010 at 18:46

Quote Posted by smurfotep

I still haven't determined a way to approach Judiciary, yet.

Half of the fun I've had from this game is trying to work out the strategy / algorithm in the first place. Without spoiling too much I found a previously solved problem to be very useful in solving this one.

(The other half is trying to match the results of other people here - 31 piece officers? Argh, got to drop four pieces somehow... :))

Tonamel on 24/6/2010 at 18:51

Quote Posted by Al_B

Engineers is certainly possible with 25 pieces, not sure about fewer than that, though.

Oh hey, so it is! :D

And smurfotep: You can get Officers down to 26, too. I haven't optimized Generals yet, so mine's sitting at a chunky 41.

Nameless Voice on 24/6/2010 at 19:39

I think that my part numbers list must surely my most-edited post on TTLG by now.

Tonamel on 24/6/2010 at 23:11

Ah, what the heck. Here's my parts list:

Robotoast: 3
Robocoffee: 5
Robolamp: 8
Robofish: 4
RC Cars: 7
Robobugs: 13
Robocars: 7
Robocats: 11
Robostilts: 9
Robobears: 15
Milidogs: 8
Androids: 12
Roborockets: 7
Roboplanes: 7
Robomecha: 19
Soldiers: 7
Robotanks: 27
Robochildren: 19
Police: 50
Teachers: 19
Rocket Planes: 21
Officers: 26
Robospies: 8
Judiciary: Incomplete
Politicians: 31
Academics: 31
Generals: 26
Engineers: 25

Seraphim: 31
Ophanim: Incomplete
Metatron: Incomplete