RUST - Power Minute - Splitter

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Malonik

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Published on May 23, 2020 5:00:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStkeQdDOrA

Game:

Rust (2013)

Duration: 2:51

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Welcome to the RUST Power Minute
We've had a lot of requests for videos that explain individual components, rather than doing one long video that drones on, we've challenged ourselves to keep at or under a minute per component.

Hopefully, we'll cover everything you need to know about today's component in 60 seconds or less.

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SCRIPT

Splitter

Um yeah, I knew we’d get here eventually, but it’s hard right.
I really enjoy rust electricity, its fun to have a system of complexity and control layered over a world as chaotic and meaningless as Rust. So I really appreciate when face punch puts in the effort to think these systems through, like with electricity and farming.

It speaks highly of them as developers and I don’t want people to think I’m condemning the whole game when I say, every now and again there’s a turd among the roses. You know, something that sticks out like the dog's balls. A lot of people defend it, and I feel like it may have one or two uses in the game, but one or two isn’t enough, given the versatility of every other component.

No hang on, you know what, let’s get it done, this is Gal’s Rust power minute
And today we’re talking about the splitter.

Begin

One of the first components to hit the ground in the testing phase, the splitter is a simple component which literally splits any incoming power, 2 or 3 ways

When any amount feeds in the top, ugh. It splits into as many lines as are occupied out the bottom.
Feed out two splits the power in half. Three splits the power into thirds.\

If you know exactly how much power you need, and it can be split evenly into the circuits that require you, you might consider a splitter.

But that’s really only good for lower power circuits, if you have a blocker that you want to affect multiple door controllers, then 4 power is pretty cheap right.

I mean the components not cheap, it’s 10 high qual And you run the risk of losing all components if the power fluctuates just a little.

Send it 4 power and it eats 1, splits the 3, but if your power dips then it tries to divide the remaining two among 3 sockets. Doesn’t work.

Which is really its biggest flaw, if the amount of power your sending it isn’t divisible by two or three, depending on the sockets then it’s very likely that the splitter will divide the power into decimal points which it rounds down by default.

Buzzer

No hang on they need to see this, run 12 power into a splitter, eats 1 down to 11, divides 11 by 3 for 3.6 power per socket, 12 in 9 out? so 3 power just gone

What if each line needs 20 power and you’re feeding in 61 right, perfect right, dip just 1 electricity and all three sockets stop working, there’s no priority they’re just all gone. Bang,

Buzzer again

The power minutes done when I say it’s done
Look at this prick, every other component plugs in from the top and out from the bottom.
It doesn’t align with the aesthetic of the rest of the components
It’s poorly modelled to the point of indolence
It has no interior circuits, just an empty box,
But if they were saving on polygons why have all the inverted geometry.

I honestly believe there’s a place in set aside in one of the deeper pits of hell for whoever designed the splitter

Final Buzzer

Ahem

So yeah, that’s the splitter,
Feel free to defend it in the comments, I’ve heard every argument before so I probably won’t address it, but make yourself heard, its a public forum.
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