A Pro-Manual?

[Epicmonkeydude]

So I have decided to make a program to be used as a manual. For the purpose of the game, this is technically cheating, however in a realistic situation this would be a thing.
My intentions of use are for pranking your partner into thinking you are an absolute boss at reading the manual.

I have currently made about 4 modules supported by the program. However, I am losing inspiration, so my question to everyone is:

Is this a thing you would want?

[Liro Raériyo]

Well, the best ive ever done was help 2 people disarm 2 different bombs at once, and it was hectic, you have no idea how hard it is to relay information efficiently between three different people, so a program like this for the idea of disarming mutliple bombs at once?

I would love you.

[WarioLandGP]

Can you please explain further what this program is?

[Lord Ethcaz]

DragonQuest, the way I understand it, it would be a stand-alone programming (or maybe just an Excel sheet) which would let you enter the variables that you get from the guy with the bomb, and it would tell you the solution - no figuring it out for yourself...

I think this would totally ruin the fun and challenge of this game, like pretty much all cheats do...

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by Faidh:

I think this would totally ruin the fun and challenge of this game, like pretty much all cheats do...

Yes that is true, however it could be fun to use as a prank which is what I intend.
Also, I have ideas that could keep the challenge and fun, but maybe for another version.

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by Liro Raeriyo:

2 different bombs at once

Soon enough you will be capable of disarming 5 or more at once, well, if you are good enough ;)

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by DragonQuest77:

Can you please explain further what this program is?

This program will do most of the manual usage for you. You would initially put in basic bomb information, such as the serial code, number of batteries, lit labels, and ports. You would then be able to choose a module from a menu (Needy modules being available at all points from a seperate menu). You would have to input any relevant data (however it's not all labelled clearly), the system would then briefly tell you what to do.
This will use names and phrases used by the manual in one way or another, therefore you will struggle if you have no recollection of the manual terms.

[Yemto]

Sounds interesting, what program language is it written in?

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by Yemto:

Sounds interesting, what program language is it written in?

Pascal using Lazarus. Fairly simple, yet effective

[Lord Ethcaz]

Originally posted by Epicmonkeydude:

Originally posted by Faidh:

I think this would totally ruin the fun and challenge of this game, like pretty much all cheats do...

Yes that is true, however it could be fun to use as a prank which is what I intend.
Also, I have ideas that could keep the challenge and fun, but maybe for another version.

When I first read your post, I thought it was a fun programming excercise ;) As a programming excercise, this is a very fun and practical situation... I just don't see the practical use for it, apart from cheating... But that could be me, don't be discouraged by my opinion ;)

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by Faidh:

Originally posted by Epicmonkeydude:

Yes that is true, however it could be fun to use as a prank which is what I intend.
Also, I have ideas that could keep the challenge and fun, but maybe for another version.

When I first read your post, I thought it was a fun programming excercise ;) As a programming excercise, this is a very fun and practical situation... I just don't see the practical use for it, apart from cheating... But that could be me, don't be discouraged by my opinion ;)

Well feedback is what I asked for, and that is what you have provided me with, so thanks. Also I have partial agreement with your final statement. However I see a small margin of practical use for it.
As long as I have atleast one or a few people interested I will continue with making this, it's quite frankly more complicated than I expected! I couldn't ask for anything more (except for less errors? haha)

[Radiohost]

Can you beat the game without using your program? If so, I say, proceed on and nullify the challenge for yourself. However, if you have not, I say, proceed on with trying to defuse them all without the help of an aid.

Certainly we all could make notes on the bomb manual and create our own little ciphers, but doesn't that defeat some of the purpose of having all that added stress that chips away at communication, and ultimately helps establish the intensity of this collaborative exercise?

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by Radiohost:

Can you beat the game without using your program? If so, I say, proceed on and nullify the challenge for yourself. However, if you have not, I say, proceed on with trying to defuse them all without the help of an aid.

Certainly we all could make notes on the bomb manual and create our own little ciphers, but doesn't that defeat some of the purpose of having all that added stress that chips away at communication, and ultimately helps establish the intensity of this collaborative exercise?

Yes very true, however as I have stated previously it could be used as a prank to make your partner think you are a pro at reading the manual.
And as Liro suggested, helping people to diffuse multiple bombs at once can add more fun, challenge, and purpose in

[TornadoTK]

A few people have already done this in different languages - I made one in Excel.

[ProbablePrime]

Im already well into making a program such as this. It can already automatically solve simple wires and symbols with just the information your bomb defuser reads out.

As many say yes this is cheating but i don't intend to use it in play. Its a fun project to solve some computational problems.

Writing a morse code decoder is quite a challenge from scratch for example.

Here's some screenshots:
http://i.ahref.co.uk/u/r/bNIN.png
http://i.ahref.co.uk/u/r/Py23.png

Maybe i'll release it maybe i wont. I still have the majority of modules to solve computationally though. :( then begins testing... I wouldn't want it to be wrong.

EDIT: I finished complex wires tonight,

Gonna need to add blue white and red white even though the white can be ignored in candy stripe wires.

http://i.ahref.co.uk/u/r/clKm.png

Let me know if you want to talk strategy when it comes to mazes,wire sequence and morse code.

[Epicmonkeydude]

Originally posted by ahref:

Let me know if you want to talk strategy when it comes to mazes,wire sequence and morse code.

I have spent the last few days working on the maze module and just finished it now! I would be interested to know about your approach to the maze module as I had a fair amount of problems haha

Also, from the screenshots I can say that yours has a more user-friendly UI than mine haha

Here is a list of my currently completed modules: Wires, The Button, Keypads, Who's on First, Memory, and Mazes.

And the same goes to you, if you want to talk about algorithms or whatever just say.