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Mouse Wars

Very clever puzzle that uses the parts in several creative ways. I especially like the bit at the beginning with the antigrav pad and the rocket.

The only part I wished had less nudge was the rocket launch part. I had to remove a pipe to prevent a shortcut. I have no other methods to fix the nudge.

I feel that the current version has too much pixel placement as it stands. I have my own suggested fix for the exploits, and that is replacing the bomb - pool ball setup with a cannon (you could even leave it unlocked): https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1455041529

I also considered using a bottle rocket, but that creates a small explosion when it launches that could explode the remote bomb.

Just remember that the brute force way isn't necessarily going to give the player the "aha". As long as it is frustratingly difficult or near impossible to brute force it, I think my job is done. I think I prevented most of the easy or semi-easy bypasses. What should remain is (ideally) nothing at all, or at the very least, frustrating trial-and-error.

As long as the bomb can get to the center, it's going to be hard to prevent the rocket from being able to light it, since rockets bounce all over the place when they hit things.

This next fix was hard to implement without causing problems elsewhere. It was also a challenge to keep things aestheticly pleasing, just fo fix (hopefully) one remaining hole in the design.

I agree with that. The problem is that I didn't anticipate the solution you did. I don't want to undo all that work crafting the solution I did by unflagging the nitro as part of the solution. So, I am trying to fix the holes, to hide it better that I screwed up. That was the goal from the start, to keep things vague how to create the hole but only craft one intended way to make it happen and block the other way.

I agree that there's no need to prevent finicky shortcuts that are much harder than the real solution. I do think, though, that any solution that satisfies the challenge should be recognized.

I'll keep trying to prevent shortcuts to avoid rewording, but at what point are your shortcuts harder to perform (by others) than the actual prefered execution?

I think this still works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IErC5oQ3fI