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[Happerry]

Inkling Research Facility

Core Thread : LINK

Welcome, brave engineers, to Inkopolis, the ancient center of Inkling Civilization. Strange tidings arise on the tides, tidings of war and woe, for all that most do not yet hear them. You, on the other hand, do hear them. The long peace between Inkling and Octoling will soon break into pieces, it seems, under the pressure of the rising waves. One side will break, and be forced from the highlands that will be left. You and your peers mean for it to not be your side that is forced from your home by desperate refugees, and you will turn all your artifice into preventing that terrible vision from coming true.

Still, the war is not yet upon us. Even the most grim souls think it still a matter of months, not days, until the public realizes what stands before them and the fighting starts. You have some time yet. Time to spend crafting better tools, better implements of victory for your side before the need becomes a demand for salvation.

Let us use it wisely, eh?

Spoiler: Starter Designs (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon
Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with. (Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails)

Sub Weapon
No Sub-Weapons start out designed.

Specials
No Specials start out designed.

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel
Ling Militia : The basic Ling, Inkling or Octoling, now given a weapon and sent to fight for their right not to be shoved underground and forced to live off of fungi and other, worse things. While they have high morale, they are not the Splatfest Experts of the future and have minimal combat experience and training. But at least they know how to use a gun.

Cultural Artifacts
So far, nothing has been invented that makes your side Fresher then the other side. You may feel properly ashamed of that fact now.

Other Gear
Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.

Superweapons
So far, no Superweapons have been developed.

Heroes
So far, no Heroes have been recruited for the greater glory of something or another.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Index
Year 0, Spring : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 0, Summer : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 0, Fall : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 0, Winter: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 1, Spring : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 1, Summer : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 1, Fall : Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 1, Winter: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 2, Spring: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 2, Summer: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 2, Fall: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 2, Winter: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 3, Spring: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 3, Summer: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 3, Fall: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War
Year 3, Winter: Design Phase, Revision Phase, Turf War

[Shadowclaw777]

“Splatling” Weapons I’d like to create or a lightweight paint gun that can spurt out paint multiple times in quick succession in first a heavier and more ammo-intensive variant than a lightweight assault PDW

[Emral282]

I'd say go with side stuff first before weapons.
Some sort of Splat Bomb is my first instinct.
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Splat Bomb
A simple subweapon for our troops to use in the field. This device can be thrown by the average Inkling and explodes into ink when it hits something.

[Shadowclaw777]

Compact Splatling Gen 1.0: This lightweight for its class ink shooter for a primary weapon has been created the hands up to become a rotary cannon that an individual inkling could wield by themselves, it has a great ability to spurt out ink in rapid succession and it’s shorter barrel allows its to be simpler to create and reduce the amount of time the cannons need to rotate to gain maximum rate of fire, duration of its fire, and it’s range. However the compactness and shortening of the barrels results in a trade-off of ink falloff at greater ranges resulting in it being less effective at longer ranges. A great weapon for the individual soldiers for suppression and support of its fellow inkling comrades. However the greatest downside for such a fast-firing weapon in its initial concept is the cost of its severe recoil when handling it, the ability that heat-up to quickly during its fire duration due to a lack of application in the weapon’s hydraulics and frail plastic it is made of, as well as a the current iteration doesn’t allow for much stopping power against Octolings
.308 Squiffer: A lightweight proto and initial concept of a compression-based weapon platform for a ink-based medium to long-range engagement charger. The ink rifle contains a .308 inch diameter hole where a blast of ink comes from through a very high ink muzzle velocity when charged that severely splat enemies into paste when targeted, the lightweight package means that it allows strafing and mobility when the charger is charging up at the cost of its effectiveness and drop off at maximum ranges.

The Squiffer creation comes from a applying a shoulder-mounted sprayer through a barrel that launches a beam of ink pneumatically with compressed air as the ink charges up in the barrel of the elongated sprayer to prepare to splat the target with deadly ink.
Military Inkline Camp: Through the usage of going through a proper training facility for the Ling recruits that tests the grit and instills discipline onto the militia inklings, this allows the Lings to continue their martial growth and training allows them to work in squads more effectively, supporting others and allowing for basics of tactics. As well as improved quality in the marksmanship and handling of ink-based weapon platforms and technology improving their accuracy and handling of weapons that allows them to handle foundation of combat. The Lings that pass through the Inkline Camp, can consider themselves Inkantry.

[TricMagic]

Military Inkline Camp: Through the usage of going through a proper training facility for the Ling recruits that tests the grit and instills discipline onto the militia inklings, this allows the Lings to continue their martial growth and training allows them to work in squads more effectively, supporting others and allowing for basics of tactics. As well as improved quality in the marksmanship and handling of ink-based weapon platforms and technology improving their accuracy and handling of weapons that allows them to handle foundation of combat. The Lings that pass through the Inkline Camp, can consider themselves Inkantry.

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Fresh Decals(Social)

A selection of Decals that are painted to denote territory. Moral Boost and general freshness.

[Rockeater]

Just watching

[Emral282]

Splatbombs:
Compact Splatling Gen 1.0:
.308 Squiffer:
Military Inkline Camp: TricMagic, Emral282
Fresh Decals:

[Doubloon-Seven]

Right so I have no idea what the setting of splatoon even is but okay.

Splats are all well and good, but a fine mist of ink offers certain undeniable advantages. Wider dispersal, sort of stealth, and hanging around to repaint captured territory. To this, we have created what amounts to a frame with a trigger and a small, multi-hole bore. Firing thus should create a thick cloud of suspended ink painting all in its path.

[Draignean]

Splatbombs:
Compact Splatling Gen 1.0:
.308 Squiffer:
Military Inkline Camp: [3] TricMagic, Emral282, Draignean
Fresh Decals:

[testmen]

Military Inkline Camp: Through the usage of going through a proper training facility for the Ling recruits that tests the grit and instills discipline onto the militia inklings, this allows the Lings to continue their martial growth and training allows them to work in squads more effectively, supporting others and allowing for basics of tactics. As well as improved quality in the marksmanship and handling of ink-based weapon platforms and technology improving their accuracy and handling of weapons that allows them to handle foundation of combat. The Lings that pass through the Inkline Camp, can consider themselves Inkantry.

My vote.

And for to give a design.
Foam on a stick - Primary Weapon
A block of foam is attached to the end of a stick, which soaks up ink, and allows the user to slash around ink.  An amazing weapon totally not though up of from a designer's daughter splashing her sponge in the bathtub.

[Happerry]

Design : Military Inkline Camp (Normal Difficulty)
4+1 = 5: Average

Are you a Squid or are you a Kid? That is the question being asked at the new training camps popping up within Inkling controlled territory. So far few Inklings are really taking them seriously, for surely more peaceful ways will prevail, right? ...right? ......right...? But already the first newly trained Inkantry are emerging from the camps as the vanguard into a new, more colorful future for the Inklings. Turf Warriors of later years will take inspiration from their training, for all they are still running around with only the basic Bamboozlers. But they are, when it comes down to it, pretty damn good with said Bamboozlers. Better accuracy, better squad awareness, better terrain awareness, better chosen shot placement, better teamwork... all things that come from actually training your soldiers, and in each of those categories the Inkantry are noticeably superior to the Inkling Militia of old.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon
No Sub-Weapons start out designed.

Specials
No Specials start out designed.

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.

Cultural Artifacts
So far, nothing has been invented that makes your side Fresher then the other side. You may feel properly ashamed of that fact now.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.

Superweapons
So far, no Superweapons have been developed.

Heroes
So far, no Heroes have been recruited for the greater glory of something or another.

The Revision Phase of Spring, Year 0 has begun.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Mark 1.1 Ink Tank
A standard ink tank modified so that the ink is under pressure from a compressed air intake. The pressurisation means that ink can be fired farther, faster, and with greater force.

Throwing some stuff out here.

[TricMagic]

Cultural Artifacts

Fresh Decals: Paint your turf and show your stuff. We are the Inkantry!

A movement for personal labeling, and pride of race. Also, proof of being better, so to inspire allies, and demotivate the enemy.

[testmen]

Military Inkline Camp - Montage Music
Man, basic training can be pretty boring sometimes.  I know!  What if we find some music to play while they are training!

"The hour's approaching, to give it your best
You've got to reach your prime.
That's when you need to put yourself to the test
And show us a passage of time
We're gonna need a montage (montage!)
Ooh it takes a montage (montage!)"

[TricMagic]

Cultural Artifacts
So far, nothing has been invented that makes your side Fresher then the other side. You may feel properly ashamed of that fact now.

Decals are better. That, and Inkantry get to use something as a reward for completing it.

Nice music though.
We are the Inkantry!