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Ohhhh lol I had the feeling one of you spotted the clever mechanism and then the others went on the quest to optimise it the most to win haha. Amazing work getting up there though either way! Whenever I try to watch someone else's idea and replicate it, it usually doesn't get me the win hahah... As in, I've still got quite a long way to go with the game to understand all the tricks haha 😅

Thanks for the kinda words mate, hahaha honestly, I couldn't believe I figured out the mechanisms tbh haha. I was stressed out lol I need to practice the 90° mechanism and figure that out lol. You're right though, once I get these hydraulic basics sorted, I reckon I'll be a champ 💪. I might even beat Crian for once hahahah

Oh! I see, that makes sense

Bahahha oh man, "if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing". Yeah you are right about it getting colinear and failing, I just fumbled my way through it like I usually do though hahaha, but glad I got something working in the end. Was super proud of the mechanism in the end, was a fun challenge! I am going to head over to your channel and finally watch that one to see how you solved it!

Ahhh good to see you around again haha. Yeah mate, you're onto something. I need to remember to keep an eye out for Dregu's solves going forward lol. I also really really need to learn how to make those little rope bridge style bridges, they seem to be ridiculously strong for the materials they are made out of!

Amazing, I figured you guys would know all about it hahaha. Thanks for the tip man, I'm going to go try find it!

Hey Sayed, that's such a random question you've asked me that I've never really thought too much about haha. So, let's see, I'll try keep this short. When it comes to engineering drawings, yes, having a red-green colourblindness will cause you some troubles with reading physical drawings. But looking at PDF drawings, there are ways to manipulate the colours that look too similar for you very easily in tools like Bluebeam. So I don't want you to think that will be a limiting factor if that is what you want to pursue. In engineering software, the red-green colourblindness should not hold you back at all. In all other facets of civil engineering, I do not see how a red-green colourblindness could be a limiting factor. Most people in the general public don't even realise the degree they are colourblind until they do the formal tests to check that. I knew one electrical engineer who was colourblind, and he was a Principal Engineer as well. So being red-green colourblind did not hold him back. One thing to consider is whether employers where you live do the Ishihara Tests to determine if you are colourblind or not, and whether they will use that against you if you come back as colourblind. Hope that gives you some things to consider. I personally believe everyone should strive to do what they want and think is best for them when it comes to career selection. I don't personally believe being colourblind will make you any lesser of a civil engineer. Thanks for dropping by and asking such an interesting question! 🤔

TL;DR: of the above is that no, I don't believe that being colourblind will affect your civil engineering career, but the full answer is a bit more complicated than that.

@@RookieGamingEngineer Thank you sir for your answer

Hey Adam, glad you enjoyed it mate. I'm here doing these videos as a hobby and it really motivates me to spend my free time on making videos when I hear someone actually enjoyed watching it haha. Cos I'm a tiny channel, literally each and every comment matters and keeps me motivated 😁 Hahaha, I agree with you it's a bit cheeky. I am basically non-existent on the scale of channels, so, I gotta participate in the almighty TH-cam algorithm shenanigans while I build up a bit of a following. I'm honestly hoping I can get Matt's (RCE) attention one day and see if there's a chance of a collab video or something, I think that would be amazing

Hey mate, thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment. Welcome to the channel! I have quite a few similar videos of polybridge playthroughs now :) Been thinking I need to play more games, but just keep getting hooked back into PB because it's so engineer-y haha

I thought it was a fun level haha. Thanks for thinking about me when you realised that your level was chosen to be that week's challenge lol! I'm glad I didn't disappoint. I thought your level was very creative. It's a cool concept you pulled off. Honestly, the crane + flatbed type combo does exist that's why I managed to go there haha, I was just so fixated on the tow truck style approach I was doing at the start. That turned out to be quite a rabbit hole haha, but glad I took a breather to step back and think about other ways to solve it. I watched the gallery afterwards and was surprised by the claw mechanisms people made, I bet you loved those too! I think the way I did my crane was pretty unique in the end compared to other solutions, and that catapult at the end was also another pretty unique feature - both I'm proud of in the end haha, my own flare to it! Looking forward to your other levels mate, you make probably the toughest levels I've played so far to be honest!

I loved the attention to detail with the decorations too. Wow. Okay, I didn't realise there was a bit to the decorations. That makes it extra awesome to know that! I'll be looking out for cool decor more now that I know that!

@@RookieGamingEngineer Well, the time it takes to take to decorate a level depends on how much effort you want to put into the backdrop. I usually like having some small details and "islands" so that will clearly take more time. The christmas tree, for example, took around 30 minutes on its own because of the decorations I placed on it. Will every level have this high amount of detail? Not really. But it is nice to appreciate the details, especially for the Christmas and New Year's weeklies, where a lot of thought has been put into the theming ahead of time.

The counterweight was such a fluke! I cannot believe it worked out as well as it did. I did edit out a bunch of other attempts after it where I messed up the counterweight and it started hitting the truck instead haha... This challenge too me ages to get to the outcome you see here though, it was a rough ride!

@@RookieGamingEngineer To quote an intelligent person: "A fluke is one of the most common fish in the sea. So if you go fishing for a fluke, chances are you just might catch one." Sometimes you need luck tho. =D

Ahhhh Ai Hoi makes an appearance lol. Now that I know your gender I'll refer to you correctly haha. Happy new year man!

Happy New Year! 🎉 Thank you for the nice words :)

Yeah man I couldn't believe the box replacement bridge hahaha. It absolutely annoyed me like you mentioned lol! Thanks for the support! Yeah I think I technically had a working solution faster than Crian this time? And also held the lead for a very short while haha

Thanks for the tip about the end sound and menu! I've since been trying to be more patient about it. This video was actually recorded quite a few months ago :)

Yes, I agree haha. That was a nice back and forth!

Thanks for the kinds words 😁. Bit of a rollercoaster seeing your comment and the one someone else posted just before you LOL. I'm glad you checked out the video and gave me a chance, glad you enjoyed it! I'm just here to make some videos on the side as a hobby because I love the games I feel motivated enough to record and because I also want to get better at video editing as a personal goal :) Thanks for dropping by and leaving some positivity behind! I appreciate it mate!

Hey Himali, that's fine you couldn't watch much of it. No hard feelings. Is there something specific about the video or audio that bothered you, or were you just not interested haha

@@RookieGamingEngineer idk i cannot put my finer whts wrong. i guess i cannot see your expressions and that why i cannot enjoy it with you. keep doing what you are doing.

I think that's actually really fair feedback. Thank you for letting me know your thoughts! Hope you have a great new year!

Hahahah thanks for dropping by. Merry Christmas man, maybe it's a Xmas miracle. I'll drop you a message on Discord soon, maybe we can release the 3rd battle video next week Thursday?

@@RookieGamingEngineer Thank you, Merry Christmas to you as well! Sure, i am ready to release it whenever it fits your schedule - and of course we have to play again ;)

Bahahha it was about time I finally got some sort of victory lol. I think I just really badly wanted to do well because this challenge was somewhat related to RCE

​@@RookieGamingEngineer Well... in that case i hope there won't be any RCE related weeklys in the near future =D

Oookay - maybe I should start aiming for low budgets regularly? Usually I go for a nice looking design.

@@pufaxx i don't like that idea...

@@Crian05 Hm ... then I'll stick to what I've learned. If I try to build the most beautiful bridge, I can always say “I've won!”. Personal taste.

Thanks for the feedback Aman. Honestly this is very true feedback. Would you believe I was even worse than this when I first started these videos hahaha. I used to have to edit out a lot of my speech because it was just too awkward or the cadence was all wrong. I feel like I've come a long way since then but still have a long way to go :) This whole channel is a bit of an experiment and hobby for me to see how it can help me improve my presentation and speech skills, I think it really does help a lot forcing myself to sit down to listen and edit things to learn how unnatural and forced my speech is sometimes haha. Also let's face it, I reckon most engineers are autistic and socially awkward. I definitely know I am 😅 Thanks though truly, I've heard about speaking to a mirror to practise but I've never done it before. I will go and watch some videos about that and then sit down to actually do it!

I feel like you're watching this video right now but I've read your comments so far and loving the commentary haha :) :). I agree with you, I also hate bridges with bits falling off to be honest

When I read your comment, all I could think about was "The One" featuring Jet Li 😂😂. Thanks for dropping by and leaving me a comment. You're absolutely right there can only be one RCE, but there's very many other civil engineers who are into gaming out there too. The PB3 weekly challenge that just wrapped up for this week featured Matt and Paddy in their custom vehicle as well - which was a real treat to play! I hope RCE gets the chance to play the level and you might just see me on the leader board on his video if he does. Though I played the level very late into the week so doubt I got on the leader board quickly enough to feature in his video!

Luckily he isn't =)

Haha no worries man. I couldn't stop thinking about the possibility of a no hydraulic solution, and I was playing around with the game for a LONG time hahaha (you can see the Attempts counter bumps up by like 150 attempts or something like that between the two videos hahaha). I literally just kept playing to see if I can optimise it and I was having too much fun, and then BOOM, suddenly, I had a solution that was almost there so I started recording again! This week's challenge was a lot of fun for sure.

Thanks for dropping by man, glad you loved it hahaha. I really liked this level. As you noticed too, a hydraulic phase right at the start would have allowed a completely symmetrical design for me, but that's fine man, this was a great level to have a play around with hydraulics! Had a lot of fun haha Bummer that gallery preview not working isn't a feature then lol, just happened like that hahaha

@@RookieGamingEngineer Needed to correct myself. You were right - Tested it with other weeklies. Seems to be intentional. Maybe due to the "curated" checkbox for the gallery?

Oh! That's a good addition then. Like I mentioned, I have such a hard time making my eyes not wonder to the left and "cheat" haha

@@RookieGamingEngineer Uhm - in version 1.5.2. preview thumbnails are back again.

Bahaha, may the best civil engineer win.... Maybe one day my channel will be big enough to catch his attention and see if we can make a collab happen, but that might be a slow process to get there hahaha. I don't think he'll even notice my comments in his videos until I have like 1k+ subscribers, that'll be some time away 😅😅

@@RookieGamingEngineer Well he does like to check the highscores for polybridge and is often competitive! So hopefully so. I'll spam his comments for you. <3

Hahaha thanks for the support :) but honestly, it's okay. I am sure Matt is a very busy person, so don't want to overload him with messages (also, maybe deep down I am scared of angering the slumbering giant lol). It would be really awesome if you could spread the news about my channel so we can have more of a following and then Matt will definitely notice lol! But seriously, no pressure with any of it mate. I am just glad you enjoy the content lol, I am having fun doing these videos, and it's a good getaway from my otherwise stressful engineering work life!!

I think I just got in the zone of getting the UFO to the end flag haha. I'll have to watch your solution video and see what you did

Bahahaha thanks for dropping by and leaving the comment! Means a lot to me when someone's happy to have a look and decide for themselves if they like my videos or not instead of instantly hating on me cos I'm similar to RCE 😅😅

@@RookieGamingEngineer No problem mate:)

Thanks for the fun level Eclipse. It made me realise there's still a lot of mechanics in this game I need to learn more about. I still don't fully understand how I managed to make the split joints snap in the end while they were still in motion

Hey man, so is that how the joint snapping works? I need to practice this more with the flexible bridges like this one. It sort of seems like when the movement slows down the most, that's when the snapping happens

@@RookieGamingEngineer As far as i know - and if i am wrong, pufaxx can correct me - the joints are only able to "connect" or "disconnect" from eachother while a hydraulic phase is going. That's why in one weekly (with the 180° bridge) even if you solve it without a real hydraulic movement, you needed one short hydraulic to increase the time the phase is active, because the nodes had to travel 180°.

Hahahha oh fair enough. I take my comment back about it being over-engineered, you balanced the stresses nicely and in the end, it was just a really nice solution to watch, nice work!

Ohhhhh and you're him! I feel like I'm in the presence of greatness hahha

OH man, the randomness in this level was a lot, I completely agree!! I got so lucky with seeing how the car just randoms its way onto the flag in the end, if I didn't happen to notice that, I think I would have not been able to come up with the cheap solution at all!

Hahahha oh nah, I think you beat me fair and square in the end lol! I don't think I could have gotten anything cheaper than what I had, it was getting too complicated in the end and very too fine tune-y

It was a fun back and forth though hahaha, I had you for a little bit of time there :P

@@RookieGamingEngineer That is true, it was really fun =)

Wow, that sounds like an amazing solution man. Sounds like you used the joints and snapping into place in the best way possible for it! Did you upload your solution to the Gallery? I'll go check it out

@@RookieGamingEngineer Idea was to solve it without split joints. Just some ropes preventing the flaps to rotate more than 180°. Unfortunately I lost that file, but it didn't work anyway. Already sent you the replay of a newer version (using a few split joints) ... all in all hopelessly over budget (65k) ... and some breaks. =D

Hahaha yeah man that high up approach was a recipe for disaster 😂. When I saw the cheap solutions on this in my upcoming video, I was like, wtf, I wish I thought of that. The two road pieces solution is absolutely insane

Ahhh that's actually really good feedback that I can take on board and reassess the self commentary. So it's the tone of it I can make more neutral and provide context sometimes, instead of pointing out every single flaw as much. I reckon I can do that haha. Thank you for dropping by and taking the effort to leave me the constructive feedback! Appreciate it mate, cheers

Thanks niffTea :) glad you enjoyed! All the joints, snaps, hydraulics, and controller settings really did a number on me on this one 😵‍💫😵‍💫😅

@@RookieGamingEngineer yea too confusing for me to solve :)

Hey Swimpboy thanks for the comment! Hmmm you are absolutely right, I should get back on the campaign and smash through that. I actually didn't even finish the campaign in the game to be honest LOL - I saw these weekly challenges and thought they looked cool, so here I am, playing those, even though I am such a noob at the game and still have so much to learn haha 😅😅

Thanks man, that actually makes me feel better knowing this was a hard way to do it LOL. Especially cos I did manage to figure it out (eventually) after a LOT of trial and error and I think I understand what you mean now. I do need to practice though so I don't forget how I managed to make this happen haha 😅😅 I will need to go check out those workshop levels you linked me! And true, I think you are right, I should have been able to do something to make the second hydro work a little bit better so the roads do click into place!

Hahahaha man, your solve was so cheap for this one, I had no chance LOL I need to head over to your channel and watch how you solved this one

@@RookieGamingEngineer I wondered you didn't use the Lazy 180° after you mentioned last week Lazy's tutorials.

Oh man I only got my head around the 90 degree tutorials by Lazy Comet. I need to try learn the 180 again

@@RookieGamingEngineer Oh, okay. If you would have learned it, the level would have been easier (at least the start) for sure.

LOL you've been doing really well in these last couple of weeks. I feel like I am feuding against a very strong opponent!

@@RookieGamingEngineer Because you beat me i am now determined to never let this happen again =D I just have to remind myself to check every weekend if i have to redo my solution to get you^^

Bahaha okay good good, a bit of good friendly competition

Oh man I'm editing the video for my attempt this week. I know exactly what you mean my the timings! I noticed that in the gallery review part of the video I did right at the end haha, I got close to your score but not quite unfortunately :P Maybe next week!!

@@RookieGamingEngineer I am happy to read you didn't beat me otherwise i'd have to play it again and reclaim my victory. ;) This isn't a colab situation but the feude has to go on and beyond the colabs =D

LOL I accept defeat this week haha. I've already done a gallery review now anyway so it won't be right to cheese it just to beat you haha. But next week the feud could go either way!

@@RookieGamingEngineer Nice! Now i can't wait to see the next weekly and beat you =D

Oh hey! Thanks for dropping by. I loved your solution! It was heaps of fun trying to get that mechanism to work. I totally get how you managed it, the trick is to force the ramp to get pulled forwards so it gets under the blue car a little bit, it was pretty cool trying to reverse engineer your idea haha. I didn't have the patience to make the two top ramps work like you did to make the buggy lose energy. You balanced it all really beautifully, great work!

Ahhh, For the Alliance! Always nice seeing that logo around the internet even though I stopped playing WoW a long long time ago. Thanks for the kind words and the support :). Feels like yesterday when I was studying back at university myself. Enjoy your time there mate! Life after uni isn't as bad as everyone makes it sound, but it is different haha. I am just doing this as a bit of a hobby, have always enjoyed games, tech and a bit of video editing (maybe even more than engineering tbh lol) - but mixing all of those topics into one is pretty fun. You'll hear me drop some bits of actual engineering knowledge in my videos here and there, but I am in this mostly just for the fun of it and meeting other cool people on here!

Bahahaha oh dear, I probably shouldn't have posted it so early then! So did you do a semi circle too then, that's awesome

@@RookieGamingEngineer Yeah, i can share my replay with you on discord =)

Thanks man, will be looking forward to that when I get back on to see it haha

@@RookieGamingEngineer But don't use it to beat me again =D

Thanks for dropping by tik, I don't think I've seen you comment on my videos before. I agree this challenge was a good one! If you've seen my other videos you'll quickly realise I'm a massive noob at the game 😅, I surprised myself with this solution tbh hahaha. Cos I was originally planning to do a second video for this, I haven't even looked at other people's solutions yet. I might go back and have a look later tonight maybe to see how they got cheap solutions.

Bahaha as I was playing it, I was thinking at the back of my mind that I am approaching this in the most un-elegant way possible probably hahaha. So inefficient and hydraulics overlapping all over the place. Glad you loved it lol Tbh, I felt very Australian playing this 🤣. Brute force is the way to go baby! I really wanted to have another crack at this because I got some ideas about better doing the stuff with like the 90 degree movements and pivot points that the Lazy Comet tutorial series covers, but I ran out of time since I had some friends over on the weekend for a public holiday we had here. Oh well! Janky final solution for me for this week then haha

Haha to be honest, I was surprised I got a solution. I totally took a gamble and can't believe it worked out!! Hope you enjoyed the final solution I came up for this one, unfortunately I had a busy weekend, otherwise I would have tried a couple of other ideas I ended up thinking about after I recorded this first sesh. Thanks for dropping by niffTea!

Man I've gotten a lot better at the game tbh haha. I can actually visualise solutions now, all about experiencing as many different levels as possible right! Maybe next time we do a Collab I might be able to do better hahaha Thank you for all the tips and tricks you've left me to get me to this stage too haha. Both you and Pufaxx helped me a lot!

@@RookieGamingEngineer I sure hope you won't be able to use your new experience to beat me then... i want to stay unbeaten and can't afford to lose my new engineering degree :D

Hey mate, thank you heaps for dropping by and leaving me the message with the tips! I appreciate all the help I can get hahaha. I'll specifically remember to mention you when I finally get to making computers! I just recorded episode 3 of this series and I finally am building conveyor belts! Learning so much about the game fast haha. Btw I don't know anything about the game and haven't looked up anything, so there is like an end game type deal then? Do you mean that's when you unlock the last thing you can build? Thanks again! Appreciate the support and kind words!

@@RookieGamingEngineer Yeah, there are the story like thing little by little you will know more just enjoy the ride i try not to spoil the game with spoilers :D :D