Running out of space (actions)

[EclipsedHusky]

Trying to do stuff with 1 arm. but I keep running into the issue of turns, and rotations eating so many action slots that eventually I have to mentally hold actions to then line them up to go OFF screen. keeps causing me to fail :(

Is the action area meant to scroll or such?

I want to continue actions beyond the Negative at the end there.

https://i.imgur.com/ZgRGeZn.jpg

[Avalon]

You can scroll the command area by holding right click and dragging.

[rud]

The command area should really be able to be scrolled with the scroll wheel as well. I ran into the same problem when I first started and then realized I had all the space in the world to use but I didn't know it.

Edit: nevermind, I guess I forgot you can scroll vertically already in the command area with the wheel and shift + scroll is actually horizontal scrolling. Cool!

[wervyn]

Wait seriously?! Aw man, I just finished the campaign and had to come up with a number of clever tricks for the later, more complex problems to fit everything on one page. Would have been way easier if I'd known I could scroll horizontally.

[Des]

Originally posted by wervyn:

Wait seriously?! Aw man, I just finished the campaign and had to come up with a number of clever tricks for the later, more complex problems to fit everything on one page. Would have been way easier if I'd known I could scroll horizontally.

Don't have the game yet, but that's kinda funny. It made you be more efficient, and you became a better player because of it!

[DavidN]

I would love to see some of your solutions, wervyn! Mine went on for pages, you must have some incredible solutions.

[DMGregory]

@wervyn Hey, if they ever add an instruction count or pipeline depth histogram, you'll be a step ahead of everyone else!

[Aquillion]

I do wish the game tracked the length of your scroll as one of the stats at the end so you could optimize it and complete with other players to produce a solution with minimal scroll length.

[rbr]

Total cycles is a pretty good proxy for scroll length.

[Bromide]

When I was creating my longest solution, I created dummy arms to serve as scratch space, so that I could move or duplicate one screen at a time and keep things lined up or clean or not accidentally deleted.

[Pablosky]

Originally posted by wervyn:

Wait seriously?! Aw man, I just finished the campaign and had to come up with a number of clever tricks for the later, more complex problems to fit everything on one page. Would have been way easier if I'd known I could scroll horizontally.

I feel you man! I was the same as you. Had to come up with some very nobel ideas. But Timing Crystal was eluding me (couldn't progress any further without it). I had to look if this was possible on google. Still really curious to see how you did it at the end!