Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-26345815-20140322153715/@comment-23891957-20140827025700

The super robloxian wrote: Making a wooden cockpit with pedals and painting it nerf-colours, then fitting up 4 Magstrikes with HPA tanks in your cockpit, And having 2 Rapidfires. Also put two titans at the side-windows. Make it turnable. Put in a raid siren button. Codename Dragon. Robloxian, take it from an engineer in training- your ideas are ridiculous.

You constantly underestimate the absolutely insane amount of work it would take to build your ideas, from an engineering standpoint. Do you know how hard it would be to make walking mechs like that? Even if you could keep the darned thing upright for more than two steps, they'd move extremely slowly and constantly be verging on falling over anyway. And that's on flat ground. It's almost GUARANTEED to fall over on even the slightest of hills.

And what about reloading? Adding autoloaders would make the whole thing too heavy to operate off of human power, which would mean you'd have to use electric or hydraulic power, which, in case you haven't noticed, is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and would require heavy fluid tanks and potentially dangerous pumps or loud and noxious generators and high-voltage wiring (which presents a fire hazard) to run everything. Omitting them means you have to load each one manually which risks unbalancing the whole thing.

Beyond that, how are you going to get that to a war? How will you convince the organizers it won't crush anyone when it inevitably falls over? How will you explain to the cops about the air raid siren, and evade the inevitable noise complaints you'll have lodged against you?

Please, think in the real world, dude. Your convoluted visions are making me dizzy just thinking about them.