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[Emral282]

Changing vote because I'm ok with this

Mark 1.1 Ink Tank: [1] Draignean
Fresh Decals:
Montage Music:
Heavy Ink Tank:
Gearing change: [3] TricMagic, Testmen, Emral282

[Doubloon-Seven]

In the interests of moving along, I guess I could vote for the Gearing stuff.

Mark 1.1 Ink Tank: [1] Draignean
Fresh Decals:
Montage Music:
Heavy Ink Tank: [1] Emral282
Gearing change: [4] TricMagic, Testmen, D7, Emral282

[Draignean]

In the interests of moving along, I guess I could vote for the Gearing stuff.

Same. Gearing will help with a lot of mechanical stuff down the road too.

Mark 1.1 Ink Tank:
Fresh Decals:
Montage Music:
Heavy Ink Tank: [1] Emral282
Gearing change: [5] TricMagic, Testmen, D7, Emral282, Draignean

[TricMagic]

Mark 1.1 Ink Tank:
Fresh Decals:
Montage Music:
Heavy Ink Tank:
Gearing change: [5] TricMagic, Testmen, D7, Emral282, Draignean

So now we wait a bit.

[Happerry]

Revision : Gearing Change (Normal Difficulty)
3+4 = 7: Superior craftsmanship

We've replaced the Ink Tank's valves with a set of filters made from Super Sea Snail Protein. These filters will reliably let ink through one way and not in the other way until it is time to switch pump directions, whereupon they immediately reverse the allowed flow direction without any visible physical alteration. Beyond the normal weirdness of Super Sea Snails, replacing the heavy valves with simpler, lighter, filters has noticeably increased the space in the Ink Tank that can be dedicated to actually storing ink as the 'non-tank' portion of the tank is reduced to around 15%, counting the heavy pump system. This has had the side effect of making the tank take longer to pump up, as now more ink must be pumped into it to fill it.

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.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• 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 Design Phase of Summer, Year 0 has begun.

[TricMagic]

Another revision phase.. Not a design phase?

[Emral282]

Here's my attempt at a new primary weapon, but I'll hold off on voting for now to see what other ideas people have.
Bamboozler Cartridge Type
Representing the next step in Ink Armaments, the Bamboozler Cartridge Type adds multiple Ink storing cartridges that allow their user to both precharge shots and charge multiple shots at the same time, vastly increasing firing speed.

[Doubloon-Seven]

I'm up for designing something in a more secondary role.

A disc shaped plastic shell in which is held a balloon filled with ink. Due to the plastic disc, the Inkdisc can be thrown farther and more accurately than a balloon on its own. Any octoling that steps on top of the device will break the balloon and splat ink all across the area. A small switch on the side of the Inkdisc primes a needle that strikes out to pop the balloon after a sudden shock (for example, the end of a throw), effectively meaning that the Inkdisc can act as both a mine and a grenade.

[testmen]

I have a few I would like to toss in.

Paint Roller - Main Weapon
Hey, hey, what if we took a big tube, put it horizontal on a frame, and feed ink from the frame into the tube.  We could, like, roll over the ground with paint, man.

Plinker - Main Weapon
We take a shortbow and arrows, and we put sponges on those arrows so you can ink stuff!

Inflatable Tentacle. - Sub Weapon
You throw it like a water ballon, then it inflates and turns to a big inflated tentacle that waves around and inks stuff!

[TricMagic]

A moment. Why not a special?

Infinite Ink Barrage
Making full use of the special charge, this stores ink in a separate container that fills over time. Once full, it can be triggered to boost the range, damage, and fire rate of rapid type weapons with pressurized ink. There is no stopping this train of ink, everything in front of you can be hit. The fact it also leaves the Main Ink Tank full once it runs out is also a bonus.


It can be used on non-rapid weapons, but there it doesn't boost the fire rate as much, just keeps the tank full.


Having finished reading the ruleset, I should note that this makes use of those filters we created. We should already have a special slot on our gear.

[Emral282]

I'm up for designing something in a more secondary role.

A disc shaped plastic shell in which is held a balloon filled with ink. Due to the plastic disc, the Inkdisc can be thrown farther and more accurately than a balloon on its own. Any octoling that steps on top of the device will break the balloon and splat ink all across the area. A small switch on the side of the Inkdisc primes a needle that strikes out to pop the balloon after a sudden shock (for example, the end of a throw), effectively meaning that the Inkdisc can act as both a mine and a grenade.

Clever, I like this one

Bamboozler Cartridge Type: Emral282
Inkdisc Pattern A: Emral282
Paint Roller:
Plinker:
Inflatable Tentacle:
Infinite Ink Barrage:
Ink Armor: Emral282

Voting on multiple things because that's apparently a thing we're doing. If you lot think that people should just vote for one thing I'll go for the Inkdisc.
My attempt for a special:
Ink Armor
This defensive special has two parts to it, firstly it expels all enemy Ink from its users body leaving them in a healthy condition. After that, a protective layer of Ink temporarily covers the user, vastly increasing their toughness and resistance to enemy Ink.

[Happerry]

Also, for the future, I want to remind people that while you don't need to write a book on it, some fluff and/or description of how you expect things to work will lead to better designs (and have more stuff for me to work off of). Whereas doing one line descriptions along the vein of only 'we make the machine gun shoot faster' or 'we take a stick and put something pointy on the end' is going to lead to more lackluster results even on good rolls, because there's just not much to work off of.

[TricMagic]

Is that a dig at mine?

The canister is pressurized, so as to create the force needed to fill it as it shoots out.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Alright, firing modes are neat and adding a full-automatic function could be useful. Though I just realized that it's probably a bad idea to do this stuff in batches.

Bamboozler Cartridge Type: Emral282
Inkdisc Pattern A: Emral282, D7
Paint Roller:
Plinker:
Inflatable Tentacle:
Infinite Ink Barrage:
Ink Armor: Emral282

[testmen]

Voting for the Inkdisk, it's both reasonably versatile and fills our sub slot.  I think next design phase we should all pool our ideas for special weapons to fill that slot, and leave the last phase before the war open for a wild-card choice.