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quyxkh wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 7:05 am But you took out the recycle gear, leaving the first centrifuge susceptible to a permanently-starved state, where it never buffers up 40 extra '235 to keep running 100%, even without an external '235 trickle, and if, in your youth or childhood, you never did anything good, that external 0.7% trickle might actually *hurt*.

Not sure what exactly is being refered to by "recycler gear", however, i can still see there are 3 incorrect assumptions entangled x) :

1) With a red belt for output and no beacons or module, it achieves mechanical trhoughput magic and doesn't starve, as long as you have stack size researched fully, it works fine

2) If there was a risk of starvation, unlike what you suggest, it would not just be the first machine, it would progressively be all the others 1 by 1.

3) if there is additionnal trickle of unfiltered "good" uranium alongside the bad one, the 0.7%, they just get passed along, and certainly invalid the other 2 points even more ( not that has anything to do with my age).

I try my best to do the good things ,cuz i'm still young in my head !

quyxkh wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 7:05 am mmm, I was too lazy to put the autostart machinery back in 'cause it's optional, and wasn't the point, I just wanted to show that nice compact recycle arrangement.

I thought the point was to make the smallest possible Kovarex and my acute sense of competitiveness was irremediatly triggered by your design being declared the winner in what was consider in my a view a premature attribution. (/sarcastic tone).

I try to act my age too and can't blame you for that

Including references to 30-to-60-year-old classics ("somewhere in my youth or childhood" and "one small fraction" and "stay a while, and listen" are still widely recognized) seems not to have been as fun as it sounds in my head. Sorry 'bout that.

When I started on the Internet the tongue-in-cheek "rule" was the best way to get good answers was to post bad ones, and it pretty much worked, because people were largely posting in good faith.

I've never minded anyone, especially not on game forums or anything else not particularly serious, posting how they thought things worked even if they were wildly off target, I just assumed they'd put in however much effort to learn as they had in them and were posting hoping someone would help them along further if it turned out they needed it. Anyone who's been here a while knows I've needed it at times. It's a good rule.

But I'm starting to suspect I understand some of a reluctance I've seen. The desire to learn or help doesn't seem to be what's going on here. This exchange isn't productive of anything I recognize as helpful or fun, so I'm out.

quyxkh wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 8:34 pm Including references to 30-to-60-year-old classics ("somewhere in my youth or childhood" and "one small fraction" and "stay a while, and listen" are still widely recognized) seems not to have been as fun as it sounds in my head. Sorry 'bout that.

I felt there was a joke somewhere, i even tried to answer with one even labelling it as "sarcastic tones" just to make sure it wouldn't be taken too seriously but seeing the tone of your message i guess it didn't get accross.

quyxkh wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 8:34 pm When I started on the Internet the tongue-in-cheek "rule" was the best way to get good answers was to post bad ones, and it pretty much worked, because people were largely posting in good faith.

I've never minded anyone, especially not on game forums or anything else not particularly serious, posting how they thought things worked even if they were wildly off target, I just assumed they'd put in however much effort to learn as they had in them and were posting hoping someone would help them along further if it turned out they needed it. Anyone who's been here a while knows I've needed it at times. It's a good rule.

I don't see how it could be good faith to post bad answers if you want a good one, nor claiming something that works fine doesn't, if you want the explanation of how it works you can just ask ...

I posted tested circuit-free answers for smallest Kovarex in good faith because i saw improvements to add to the designs that were posted and it's the title of the thread and is what's in the thread