How to create complex gears?

[AiR RoBBiE]

I tried following the tutorial but it isn't seeming to work.

[Kit Reil]

press tab to make the gear switch to compound mode
place it top of a gear
place another gear connected to the gear that you put on top of another ~
(you may need to tab to swap back to attach mode)
repeat as desired

If you put a small gear on top of a large gear, it will slow down the rotation making turns take longer, but adding more torque (power)

if you put a large gear on a small gear, it will speed up making turns occur much faster, but reduce torque (power)

[guilemus]

Great explanation thanks for responding so fast!

[luxtizer]

I've been putting small gears on top of large gears and see no change to my maximum load. Is that separate from torque? How does one improve the load?

[Kit Reil]

Load is how much you need in order to make things works.

Torque is the force you are generating to meet the load.

To reduce the load needed, put small on large, then connect a large from that small one to the device. The load needed will reduce at the cost of taking longer to turn the device.

For increasing Torque, you basically just upgrade the torque upgrade. im either not far enough in the game yet or am missing something to help further, and thats why my ascension is gonna take like 10 hours at this rate lmao.

The kind of setup will be
1. large
2. small on top
3. large connected to that small
4. repeat 2-3 as needed to build torque
5. connect the large from your last step 3 to the device.

[luxtizer]

Can you connect multiple large gears in this fashion to reduce load further? Is that how you get the 500 needed for the giant gear?

[Kit Reil]

duno how to put an image, but thats basically what im doing rn; linking a bunch of them in series to get the load from 500 to 8

[Bret]

It's worth mentioning - you can't just add a compound gear and have it change an existing gear's torque. You need to connect to the compound gear itself.

This is a random youtube video that briefly shows what I mean.
https://youtu.be/I-nWzMYohCY?t=315

It's actually a very clever mechanic, it took a little playing around to get used to it, but it's fun.

Also, if you rely on lubing gears to keep things moving smoothly, the compound gears interfere with that process - you'll need a lubing gear for each "circuit" separated by compound gears.

[Alakhai]

Originally posted by Kit Reil:

duno how to put an image, but thats basically what im doing rn; linking a bunch of them in series to get the load from 500 to 8

yes, im slowly getting my ascend, one big mamma slowed and 3 big ones slowed, going with 0,08 speed and load 8,78

[Alakhai]

but probably better to farm with below 1 load and one money maker to get max load 10 and go little faster then i :)

[Kit Reil]

managed to get my first ascension point now and it really makes a difference going from 0.25 to 0.45 / level. still kinda slow though. the final gear, wont spoil, is fun though

[luxtizer]

I must be missing the point of the final gear. It doesn't seem worth the price.

[Kit Reil]

Originally posted by luxtizer:

I must be missing the point of the final gear. It doesn't seem worth the price.

it lets you start a new gear chain anywhere on the map without having to be connected to any other gears. Great for enabling machines that are nowhere near the start area.