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[Failbird105]

rotodynamic ink pumps: (4) slick, ensorceler, DGR, Failbird

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[Happerry]

Revision : Rotodynamic Ink Pumps (Easy Difficulty)
2+2+1 = 5: Average

Where before ink tanks went chugga chugga chugga, now they go whrr whrr whrr. The pump isn't the only thing taking up room in the Ink tank, there's also valves and such, but it was one of the bigger bits. And now it is a smaller bit, allowing the Ink Tank to, well, tank more ink, increasing the Octoling Militia's ammo supply. It also pumps faster in both directions, allowing for quicker refills (which is then slowed down again because it has more to refill) and a somewhat if not significantly increased weapon charging speed. The pump might be able to pump faster, but the Bamboozler is only designed to take in so much ink at a time. Shoving more in faster does help a bit, and definitely allows for potential new designs that take full advantage of the faster flow, but the Bamboozler will only receive a limited benefit from the faster charging rate. On the other hand, 5% faster is 5% faster, right?

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. Recent advances in Ink Tank pump speed have increased the Bamboozler's charging speed by around 5%.
  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.
  
  • Rotodynamic Ink Pumps : A new rotational pump for the Ink Tank. It's smaller size and more efficient form allows for an increased ink reservoir as well as faster pumping, both for refilling the tank and for output to weapons. The increased tank pumping speed for refills is partially countered by the increased tank size however, and ends up only being somewhat faster.

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.

[Failbird105]

Whiplash
The Whiplash is a new type of weapon, yet to many it will seem very familiar. That's because we are once again taking something we have already known and used for many years, the humble ink balloon, and improving upon its utilization. The Whiplash itself consists of two parts, the first part is the weapon itself. The weapon is, effectively, a hose, both in terms of design and function, the main changes are in the head, which is designed with the purpose of functioning as the handle for an attached slingshot that can be folded down when not in use, with the slingshots pocket being large enough to handle your average hand thrown ink balloon.
The hose will, rather than firing pressurized ink over long distances, instead pump out a steady stream of ink at low force. The purpose of this is to allow the weapon to fill balloons, both of the old throwing variety, and our new mines.
The second part of the weapon, is balloons, specifically ones designed with a simple plastic cap that can be popped open and attached to the end of the hose, and then sealed when removed to prevent ink leakage. Every soldier equipped with a whiplash will also be equipped with a large pack of the balloons. These balloons are then filled with the hose and quickly re-capped to be placed into the slingshots pocket and fired at the enemy with far greater force and range than could be managed by hand. The set also comes with a bandoleer three packs on it, these packs are made to hold one filled balloon each, meaning that a Whiplash armed soldier can have up to three filled projectiles ready on their person in addition to whatever they can normally carry.

This weapon is not without its flaws of course. The size of the balloons means they will not ink much turf, compared to larger weapons, and being reliant on balloons to do actual combat damage means that our soldiers will have to back off and resupply when they run out. The Whiplash is more focused on a support role, splatting Inklings with the direct, forceful impact and more focused ink payload of the balloons to give our other soldiers time to properly ink turf with their currently slower weapons, and also filling up mines with far greater speed than the bamboozler.

[Maxim_inc]

(Written on phone)
For next revision possibly:
Wideshoota Nozzle
Named by a octoling with a less than normal speech pattern the Wideshoota takes the current Bamboozle and fits a wide oval shape nozzle which presurizes the ink and causes a horizontal spray to cover a large area of ground, imagine putting a thumb over a hoze. While it is fairly short ranged it's area of denial affect will greatly help our militia in the battles to come.

[Slick]

Probably should put these here before I forget:

Splatling: A revolution for a revolution, the Splatling is an attempt at a rapid fire Ink gun.  At the heart of the device is a crankshaft that converts rotary motion into a forward-backwards pumping motion to drive its pump while also rotating its three barrels around. The Ink Gun is 'powered' through a hand crank, meaning it fires as fast as the Ling can turn its Crank.

Octo Home Guard: With tensions rising with our Inkling neighbors, it has been decided that a more organized defense will be required in case of conflict. Our Militias will now be organized in a professional Home Guard made up of voluntaries from all walks of Octoling life meeting Bi-Weekly for training in weapon certification, maneuvering in Ink Form, and squad tactics. Though they will initially be armed with current stocks of available gear, when other weapons and equipment become available members will be allowed self-specialization should they prove adept.

[Failbird105]

So I'd be all for any of the three recently submitted designs. However I really think we should make a revision to just generally improve our Bamboozler. I'm thinking improving its charging, in terms of; faster charge by making it able to take more ink at a time, making it possible to fire without full charge. Perhaps we could also fit something in there about better range to make it more effective at sniping like the chargers in Splatoon are meant for.

[Maxim_inc]

So I'd be all for any of the three recently submitted designs. However I really think we should make a revision to just generally improve our Bamboozler. I'm thinking improving its charging, in terms of; faster charge by making it able to take more ink at a time, making it possible to fire without full charge. Perhaps we could also fit something in there about better range to make it more effective at sniping like the chargers in Splatoon are meant for.

Yes

[Failbird105]

Whiplash (1): Failbird
Octo Home Guard ():
Splatling ():
Running Sluice ():

Here we go, a vote box with all the designs for this phase. I also brought back the running sluice because I feel like a roller could be quite useful.

[The Ensorceler]

Whiplash (1): Failbird
Octo Home Guard (1): The Ensorceler
Splatling ():
Running Sluice ():

[Maxim_inc]

Whiplash (1): Failbird
Octo Home Guard (1): The Ensorceler
Splatling (1): Egemma
Running Sluice ():

[dgr11897]

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Whiplash (1): Failbird
Octo Home Guard (1): The Ensorceler
Splatling (2): Egemma, DGR
Running Sluice ():

[Failbird105]

Nyeh... I can't deny that the Splatling would be useful if we could actually pull it off properly...
The issue is in doing that. If its not a man-portable weapon(which, considering how even the modern Splatlings in canon are fairly unwieldy, is likely to be the case) then they're basically sitting ducks since lings are very mobile.
There's also potential problems on the subject of refilling the weapon. We need to submerge to refill our tanks, and if we can't submerge with a theoretical Splatling emplacement then we might need to re-connect the tank each time we want to refill(alternatively it could wind up that we submerge with the tube still hooked up and it just sinks into the ink partway along).

[The Ensorceler]

A big Splatling has more in common with Special Weapons than Primaries. Since we're aiming for a smaller but still rapid fire Primary Weapon, maybe the revolving barrels are a bit much? A crank-fired automatic weapon would still be an improvement over what we have now.

[Slick]

Nyeh... I can't deny that the Splatling would be useful if we could actually pull it off properly...
The issue is in doing that. If its not a man-portable weapon(which, considering how even the modern Splatlings in canon are fairly unwieldy, is likely to be the case) then they're basically sitting ducks since lings are very mobile.
There's also potential problems on the subject of refilling the weapon. We need to submerge to refill our tanks, and if we can't submerge with a theoretical Splatling emplacement then we might need to re-connect the tank each time we want to refill(alternatively it could wind up that we submerge with the tube still hooked up and it just sinks into the ink partway along).

A big Splatling has more in common with Special Weapons than Primaries. Since we're aiming for a smaller but still rapid fire Primary Weapon, maybe the revolving barrels are a bit much? A crank-fired automatic weapon would still be an improvement over what we have now.

Well I made the design based on what information I could glean after a couple Google searches and this Water Gun I saw Ads for as a child:

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So I wasn’t thinking that it’d be all to large...

[Slick]

Whiplash (1): Failbird
Octo Home Guard (1): The Ensorceler
Splatling (3): Egemma, DGR, Slick
Running Sluice ():

Alright...I guess I’ll go with this.