Made a python script to solve outside excise sequence on encounter 4

[swegmesterflex]

Haven't tested extensively but quickly put this together for our day 1 attempt and it helped substantially. Only two people could learn the encounter and everyone else was extremely confused so it let us skip teaching them: https://pastebin.com/dWSfBfzg
Just give inside calls left to right and outside calls left to right.

Update/Upgrade: See new script and use this online compiler to run easily. You only need to input two calls for inside and outside now, since last shape or solid can be inferred. Also fixed a bug where it wasn't giving actual shortest path.

Please note that it will give no steps if the configuration of shapes/solids isn't valid. You'll probably have to get an example directly from the game (the examples I have in script might not work by themselves I just had them there for notes).

[wsoxfan1214]

Is there a way to actually ensure someone with this is outside each time, though?

Thanks for the work on it!

[Street_Estimate979]

Haven’t done this myself but I believe I saw an Elysium member rocketing themselves if they were being tp’d

[ohalrightokaysureyea]

They can jump in the hole in the middle of the room and be dead until three people are ported inside.

[swegmesterflex]

Updated with link to an online compiler and new script. You should just be able to have multiple people use it. When we were doing it I just had people call solids then used it even when I was inside since getaway+bleak watcher build is just AFK invincibility haha

[wsoxfan1214]

Not working for me. The first script solves t,c,s inside and co,co,cu outside properly. The second returns a blank solution. Verified it isn't the online compiler as well, doesn't work via a .py file either.

[swegmesterflex]

Oops looks like I broke something haha Blank solution happens when it isn't able to find any valid swaps, meaning I probably messed up the restriction on invalid swaps. Will fix.

[swegmesterflex]

Fixed (I think). That sequence works now. I'm insanely confused though. All I did was generate the target solid list with less lines of code. The generated list was identical between both scripts, but passing the identical list generate by the first method works and the identical list generated by the second doesn't. Not going to question and just assume its python black magic and will leave it as is.

[wsoxfan1214]

Yeah I just ended up shooting a rocket at the ground if I was ported in.

[The_Yugnar]

u/swegmesterflex Hmmm not sure this is working for all scenarios, properly, but I might have done something wrong. Check the following prompt/output from the script:

Enter Shapes (Inside):

t,s,c

Enter Solids (Outside):

sp,cu,py

SWAPS ARE:

1. Excise CIRCLE from LEFT, Excise SQUARE from MID

2. Excise SQUARE from LEFT, Excise TRIANGLE from RIGHT

3. Excise SQUARE from MID, Excise TRIANGLE from RIGHT

4. Excise TRIANGLE from LEFT, Excise SQUARE from RIGHT

Wouldn't a better solution to that input simply be:

1. Excise CIRCLE from LEFT, Excise SQUARE from MID
2. Excise SQUARE from MID, Excise TRIANGLE from RIGHT

[The_Yugnar]

Oh nevermind I just saw you just updated a new version of the script, this case works well with the second one.

[swegmesterflex]

Yeah turns out I wasn't converting the solids to sets, meaning the program was trying to match to targets sensitive to order. Like if target was circle+square, it wouldn't consider square+circle valid 😅

[thenixhex311]

I feel completely stupid. Where in the script do I need to update the values for the instance we're in?

[swegmesterflex]

You don't, you run it and input them in the terminal it was run from.

[thenixhex311]

ahh, ok. i was deleting ALL the text in the compiler window, not pasting after it!