This is a unique technique I discovered a few days ago. 1) Place a tin cup upside down, so just grass is showing. 2) Place any object touching or almost touching the grass of the tin cup (immovable or movable). 3) Drop the object, it will automatically pull itself towards the center of the tin cup. How can this be used? Have a wall spawn on/near some cups and have the spawns point on that wall there so its a small conveyor belt! I'm sure there's more out there, so go use your brains! If you'd like to use this is in a map, feel free! You don't have to ask. I'd just love to see someone use this technique somehow.
After you save the object it becomes immovable, it's only in forge mode that the non-movable objects are affected.
But I would wager, that if you had pallets, spawn-dropping (I think that's the phrase), then they might "conveyor" towards the middle. You couldn't spawn drop walls or anything, because they'd float in the air in a real game, but pallets would drop. It's a nice idea, but what about when they reach the middle?
I thought about using vehicles with tin cups somehow because they too get pulled into the centre. I can't really think how though.
The tin cups were designed with a small gravity field so that it can draw in the golf ball, but apparently it works for movable objects as well. Maybe that's how Tiger Woods wins at golf. He uses tin cups from Halo 3.
When they reach the middle, armagedon will destroy earth but while that is still not happening do you have a link for this map aMoeba I have an idea and would like to see if it would work. Pm the link when you get the chance please.
Could you make a bunch of tin cups overlapping each other in the center so it's one continuous conveyor belt? Then we could make an accurate elongation remake!
Maybe if all 18 tin cups were interlocked into each other at the same spot it would be able to create a long conveyor belt with pallets. A wall would be put just in front of the actual hole and a fusion coil would drop and destroy the pallet that reaches the hole. This would only work if the pallets are drawn in one after another, instead of all at the same time. Pretty much the same technique used in pallet parade (i think)
that would be cool to make a conveyor belt but the problem is that the object would stop in the middle of the first tin cup...
My thoughts exactly. You would have to have something keeping it moving, i.e. gravlift or mancannon. Then it would defeat the entire purpose of having the tin cups.
Well, if you're using an immovable object for a conveyor, the gravity lift will still assist it get to the next middle, unless you made the wall diagonally pointed and have all the middles of the cups closely interlocked. @Others: I don't have a map, its just something I noticed while forging. Try it out yourselves, its pretty simple.
*cough cough* Super mario galaxy planet with mongooses.. *Cough cough* Excuse me.. its that cigarette smoke.. gets me everytime.. Not exactly.. the Tin Cups could be used to slow the push force of the grav lift.. giving it a more realistic "Conveyor belt" effect. Given that you use enough tin cups in one spot to slow it down.. They could also be used to keep the pallet in line so it does move off the "track"
Further supports my pallet track idea for the Elongation conveyor belt idea someone had earlier. Now how about my super mario galaxy planet idea?
Whoa a planet made out of tin cups...sounds awesome but could we have enough? *ahem*a modder can*ahem* I wish Bungie would remove the "object limit"... You could have more freedom in forge if they did, and there's really no point in keeping it as long as there's a hard limit. Somebody post pics here when the figure out how to make the conveyor belt.
If you interlock all 18 cups in the same spot and place a radio antennae in the center, it sucks YOU in, like a Venus flytrap or something...
I personaly like using two tin cups to make a perfect stationary artilery canon, the two tin cups allow tanks and wraiths to rotate 360 degrees but keeps them from moving forward and back. I also have used 10-12 tin cups to make a floating turret or banshee that can rotate and look around freely and shoot but can't fly away @Planet people sorry but fail it doesn't work on mongeese, wharthogs, or ghosts and even if they did people would fall out of vehicle when upside down. @Something that people atracting thing sounds interesting how far is the range?
You could make the planet small out of all 18 cups.. it would be big but it'd be fun to play with. It should attract mongooses if it attracts tanks.. It could also attract people according to the post above yours.
No. I have experimented and the tin cups attract the heaviest objects, the more you combine the smaller the object you can have, but at no point does is attract a mongoose. I have even tried all 18