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Originally Posted by Waz
I briefly thought of this too but then I read the following in the game manual:
ROTORS only start if GEARS are installed in ROTOR order: 1, 2, 3, and then 4. The order of GEAR placement within a ROTOR set is not important. To start ROTOR 1, the PILOT places the GEAR in the GEAR slot at the top of the STEAM TANK, opposite the stack light for ROTOR 1.
Steve
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It's worth reading the Q&A's interpretation of its own manual quote:
A82 -
Please remember that "ROTORS only start if GEARS are installed in ROTOR order." In other words, you won't be able to start ROTOR 4 until all other ROTORS have been started, etc.
Our FRC Overlords are really not doing a great job on this subject. Certainly everyone agrees that Rotor N cannot actually
engage before Rotor N-1. We also agree that the rotation count of the lowest unengaged rotor rezeros if it sits idle over 10 seconds (this doesn't, itself, preclude accumulating rotations when you're not the lowest unengaged rotor, though it's admittedly highest on this pile of loose mandates). A82 seems to think the former has the same meaning as the manual telling us the gears need to be
installed in order. If the GDC actually means A82 instead of p23, it's unclear whether the A82 meaning forbids starting to
accumulate rotations or just actually starting (engaging) the rotor. Alternatively, if you can't earn rotations on N before engaging N-1, then the question becomes whether you've completely lost Rotor N by rotating early or if you can still accumulate rotations after engaging N-1 [what Kevin said].
Similarly, if the GDC really does mean the current manual wording of installing in order, the description is still incomplete. The strictest interpretation of the current wording is actually that
ever installing any gear out of order (by rotor) results in killing at least one rotor--which one is not clear. If you put your first gear on Rotor 2 and your second on Rotor 1, will Rotor 1 start (and will you get points for it)? If not, can you lift your first gear up and then get points for Rotor 1?
I have now resolved to get myself a Q&A code. The waiting is driving me nuts.
And I'm sure I'm annoying Kevin.