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[Happerry]

Octoling Development Facility

Core Thread : LINK

Welcome, brave engineers, to Octo Valley, the ancient center of Octoling 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

[dgr11897]

Lings forever!!!

The Octo-knight set (primary weapon)
An Octo-knight set is composed of two parts, the Inflate-shield and the inkbat
The Octo-bat is a foam bat soaked in ink, it won't be doing much splatting but it will throw you back a bit.
The inflate shield is a potent defensive system that can basically no sell any conventional attack, so long as it is facing the right direction at the right time. Does nothing if you are attacked from the side,

The octo-hammer is an ink based melee weapon for close range combat, designed to be cheap, knock back inklings, not be too expensive, and be able to deal a decent amount of damage. It is composed of a small high pressure ink canister attached to the head of a large hammer. when the octoling starts to swing it ejects some of that ink out the back to speed the hammer up, and upon a strike it sends the high pressure ink out the front knocking the target enemy back.

Avatar form
A special that turns the user into a nigh unstoppable avatar of the sea god for a short time, while in this form they, are immune to attack, have a large storm of ink around them, and can fly.

Secondary, a small device which holds a sea hare ally who fills a balloon, when hit with enemy ink they detonate, covering the area in ink of our own. we will get the sea hares to agree to this via bribery, if they help us with the war effort when we win we will make them our equals in this new society.

using super sea shells we can imbue our clothing with protective properties

A potent weapon fueled by shells, gather enough to activate it and we can shell any region within range, causing random inkblasts to rain down upon the battlefield.

a weapon capable of firing a short ranged but powerful blast, the short range is partially due to the spread. But get close enough and you don't even have to aim, this weapon will just splat anything in front of you. Comes with an optional blast shield, an attachment meant to protect against incoming fire

Octo-knight set: (0)
Octo-hammer: (0)
Avatar form: (1), DGR
Auto-splatter: (0)
Body armor: (0)

[Doomblade187]

It's Octolings. :3

Running Sluice

An elegant close combat and tactical weapon, the run sluicer is a rotating tube with holes drilled in it attached to the end of a modified bamboozler with improved grip, and the firing mechanism has been modified to release ink at a continuous rate through the cylinder. In addition, a bat of foam has been laid over the holes that ink comes out of. The wide ink coverage is used to enable high speed turfing and rolling over enemy ink.

[The Ensorceler]

Balloon Mine
Secondary Weapon

A triangular plastic base with an uninflated balloon on top. A valve in the base allows ink from a bamboozler to fill the balloon to bursting, then traps the ink inside. When sprayed with unfriendly ink, the balloon ruptures, restoring the area to friendly control. Can be reloaded by replacing the popped balloon.

Octo-knight set: (0)
Octo-hammer: (0)
Annihilator: (1), DGR
Auto-splatter: (0)
Body armor: (0)
Running Sluice: (1) Doomblade187
Balloon Mine: (1) The Ensorceler

[dgr11897]

Octo-knight set: (0)
Octo-hammer: (0)
Annihilator: (0),
Auto-splatter: (0)
Body armor: (0)
Running Sluice: (1) Doomblade187
Balloon Mine: (2) The Ensorceler, DGR

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[Slick]

Hmm...

[Rockeater]

Ignore me

[Failbird105]

Octo-knight set: (0)
Octo-hammer: (0)
Annihilator: (0),
Auto-splatter: (0)
Body armor: (0)
Running Sluice: (1) Doomblade187
Balloon Mine: (3) The Ensorceler, DGR, Failbird

Yeah having a good secondary will be fairly important.

[Slick]

Octo-knight set: (0)
Octo-hammer: (0)
Annihilator: (0),
Auto-splatter: (0)
Body armor: (0)
Running Sluice: (1) Doomblade187
Balloon Mine: (4) The Ensorceler, DGR, Failbird, Slick

Hmm, yeah the Balloon Mine seems good.

[Happerry]

Design : Balloon Mine (Easy)
4+1+1 = 6: Above Average

Paint Balloons are an old technology indeed, used to splat foes for thousands of years. They're also fragile, annoying to carry around, and short ranged. But with the new Balloon Mines, you no longer have to carry around a full balloon and hope it doesn't get burst before you need it. Instead, you can carry around unfilled balloons and then, using the neat stand the engineers have developed. inflate it in the field. The main complaint the brave Octolings whom have to use the things have is that the balloons in question are too big and bulky to remove from the inflationary device after they are inflated to use as a throwing weapon. Well, that and the time they need to spend fixed in one position, using their weapon to inflate the balloon. Still, when the balloons burst, they do cover quite a large area in ink.

Issues, however, have arisen with making balloons sturdy enough to handle the norms of military use and to not pop immediately upon first being shot, while friendly forces still control the area, but still fragile enough to pop once enemies actually start moving into the deployment location. So far designers have erred on the side of sturdiness, but this results in balloons that require a certain amount of focused firepower before they will burst. The feeling is that this is still better then balloons that pop before the enemy even shows up, though.

Designers have also come up with a new ultra-minimal automatic pump for the automatic inflation of balloons, allowing the deploying Octoling to deploy the mine and then not have to spend the next minute or so inflating it, but beyond being slower then having an Octoling actively inflating the balloon these pumps are Complex and hard to build, and therefor can only be handed out to units whom have proven their skill until they become easier to produce.

(Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snail, making it Cheap. If used with the automatic pump, it is Complex and that variant becomes Expensive.)

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Octoling 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

• Balloon Mine : A large balloon, inflated close to bursting with ink. Being sturdy enough to avoid accidental discharges means it requires some amount of focused firepower to detonate, and it takes around a minute and a full ink tank to deploy in the first place. Covers a large area with friendly ink when it does detonate, however, and has an optional automatic pump to allow for deployment without manual operation.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails. When used with the Automatic Pump, gains the Complex tag and therefor becomes Expensive.

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.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

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.

[Failbird105]

So how about a revision to make the balloons useable as burst bombs?

[dgr11897]

Better manufacturing techniques
Our ink tech pumps are crude at best, they're large, complicated to make, and kinda slow. So we aim to improve the size and manufacturing issues by developing improved techniques for making complex technology, namely we aim to make use of a technique called an assembly line.

[The Ensorceler]

Revision: Rotodynamic Ink Pumps

Our ink pumps are very complicated right now, using a nearly rubegoldbergian mechanism to apply pressure to ink. With a simpler pump design, we would have more engine power converted to pressure and still see gains in total tank capacity.

Spoiler: Top Secret Blueprints (click to show/hide)

Caption: Prototype reversible pump used in an Ink Tank. To reverse flow and refill tank, purple lever is moved 60 degrees counterclockwise. Green vents feed ink from the tank, red vents (shown blocked) feed ink from the environment while tank is submerged.

[Slick]

Revision: Rotodynamic Ink Pumps

Our ink pumps are very complicated right now, using a nearly rubegoldbergian mechanism to apply pressure to ink. With a simpler pump design, we would have more engine power converted to pressure and still see gains in total tank capacity.

Spoiler: Top Secret Blueprints (click to show/hide)

Caption: Prototype reversible pump used in an Ink Tank. To reverse flow and refill tank, purple lever is moved 60 degrees counterclockwise. Green vents feed ink from the tank, red vents (shown blocked) feed ink from the environment while tank is submerged.

Alright this has my vote.

[dgr11897]

rotodynamic ink pumps: (3) slick, ensorceler, DGR