2-13 hydraulic start position

[MASTR_CHIEF_2025]

I have already completed 2-13 with full marks so don't worry about spoilers...HOWEVER

i feel like the right side bridge was harder to design than needed to be.

it would make sense to me that i should be able to copy and paste the bridge that i built for the left side and then simply tick mark a setting so that the hydraulics start the simulation in the already activated position.

instead, i had to build a bridge in the drawn up position and then backwards engineer its position and hydraulic expansion/contraction amount by trial and error.

I even calculated the angles and lengths of the triangles of the left bridge so that i could make an exact duplicate of what the left side bridge should have been in the up position. I then manually built a bridge on the right side based on my calculations and it didn't work.

The problem is that i cant duplicate a 50 percent contracted hydraulic by starting with a short hydraulic and setting it to expand by 50 percent (maximum allowable value)

I would need to either draw a full length hydraulic and contract it before simulation, or i would need to be able to set expansion to 100 percent. As a note, I really think you should be able to set expansion to 100 percent because if an extended ram can be halved, than a contracted ram can be doubled. In fact that is how the game treats them in simulation but we cant set the values that way ahead of time.

for example.
A 2 meter ram contracted 50 percent is 1 meter. It will then re expand to 2 meters obviously which is a 100 percent expansion from its short position.

A 1 meter ram expanded 50 percent is 1.5 meters. Contracting it back to 1 meter would actually be a 33.33 percent contraction.

I cannot duplicate a 2 meter ram that is contracted to 1 meter by starting with a 1 meter ram and setting it for expansion. The game should limit contraction to 50 percent and limit expansion to 100 percent. This would better replicate reality.

am i missing something in game that allows me to do what i am trying to do?

like i said, i have already solved 2-13, it just bugs me that its not perfectly symmetrical.

[Blueberry]

I feel you

I am having the same issue and it is so annoying

[Timbermaw]

this needs a fix!