any tips or help for "metal gear construction"

[Bardealot]

hello,

so I am super stuck at the metal gear construction job, can not improve over 34sec, any idea, help, tip, advise to achive gold??

thanks in advance beautiful steam people!

[Toan]

Posting a screenshot would be helpful.

I think the first thing about improving times in general is to not bottleneck the input stream. Dividing the input stream into two branches is a common start for most solutions.

Look at how much time a node takes. Slower nodes should go at the end of a pipeline. Slow nodes should also have an input stream that has been trimmed.

Hope this helps.

[Playnot]

Hey, this one got me stumped as I thought we were supposed to optimize everything and not have bottlenecks, but in the end, I managed to do it with 6/8 by bottlenecking hard. Hope this helps:
https://i.imgur.com/tajiZwG.png
P.S. Mine finishes at 31.4/32 with only the first 3 upgrades bought.

[Dangerous-D]

I think this comes in at 20.2 seconds, though I'm fully upgraded.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629699685

[shteeven]

This is the solution I used to get gold: https://imgur.com/gallery/2WO431K

[Tiwaking! 56k NZ]

My goodness, those are some interesting solutions! Incidentally, this can be completed in 22.4 seconds without upgrades. It can be completed in 23.1 seconds without upgrades if you only use 6/7 components. I suspect it can be completed in under 22 seconds without upgrades by using dll compression.

For the record: With the exception of "Major Tom?" (Requires Isolated Forest) and "Fix Our Engines" (requires Random Forest), ALL puzzles before "Center of Virology" can be Gold Starred without upgrades.

Good Luck! Have fun!

[LizaGreenz]

Here is my solution. 26.8 seconds :D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2722053091

[RogueWraith9092000]

Originally posted by Dangerous-D:

I think this comes in at 20.2 seconds, though I'm fully upgraded.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629699685

Same setup I tried stock and it took over 37 seconds, which is not a gold by a fair margin. My best is a 37.6 so far, no clue how people are getting Gold un-upgraded.

[Dragonlover]

Ooh! I think I win for slimmest margin of success with fewest nodes! xD
https://imgur.com/a/ZxKwS82