4x4 Laser Tetris! 🔦🟨❗ From the Depths

*gasps at even numbers*

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[noironman]

More info, This setup results in about 14.1 second in laser storage. This is just fine for offensive lasers, though too short for anti missile/cram lams typically, better for aps.
You should use an output regulator so it can use the full stored charge. Without it, a laser uses a % of current energy. With it, it uses a % of maximum stored energy.

[OhmIsFutile]

It's not bad though technically it's become worse for offensive lasers since AP now accounts for storage which means pump-centric systems with regulators, multiple combiners, and even destabilizers will out-dps this kind of tetris, especially if smoke/shields are involved.

[munitiondragon]

4q is possible, but you have to put 2 couplers on each end. it also ends up being efficient, because they can share some of the q switches.

[siskinedge]

I remember mentioning this on the old discord a couple years back and commenting about it on a couple of your video's.
It's good for Anti-APS lasers and 4Q is achievable by having couplers on each side, sharing two switches each.
the single inputs allow inputting laser power without loosing volume effceincy (storage wise) to 4-way cavities and their lower storage density
when you want to use it offensively, just shift to using some linear aligned 3m pumps at the start to make space for the frequency doublers.
when you want more storage defensively for say missiles, the linear aligned 3m pumps are a better option than transverse 3m

It's been my go to tetris for a couple years now as I don't use offensive lasers much and prefer CIWS for anti missile duty.

[blazeshellz]

Darn, your timing is really on the spot Borderwise. My brother commission me to make a dedicated LAMS ship for some RP reasons, was wondering how the heck I was gonna make that. Now I know.

[jakaltha]

This design has pros and cons...

pro: Very compact. almost no wasted space. doesn't take much to make it an infinite fire system. takes up less space for the same firepower vs 3x3 storage based laser systems.

con: limited too 0Q, 1Q, or 2Q unless you get really creative with placement and/or give up it's compactness.

I've been using this design for a while now, or at least trying to, since it takes up so little space for its output. Only thing needed to make it infinite fire is to add a few of the small 4 input cavities following the same layout as the single input ones, with a single large pump on each. a ratio of 5 single input and 3 four input cavities is the ratio, if I remember right. I keep a templet saved since my memory isn't the best.

[SuwinTzi]

Im quite surprised you only heard about this recently. It's been a thing on the official discord since....at least around when the RPG elements of the game, Rambot leveling up was removed.

[Spymask-AoC]

your emote game on the tiles is on fire lol

[GMODISM]

But lasers work in 2 ways, either you want a pump laser, it needs only minimal storage, or as much any q pulse requires, as everything is pumps for DPS, or you do a charge laser that has no pumps almost and loads and loads of storage. So I'd say there is no perfect ratio, I'm sure this is decent but seems to me it's not the best of any world between DPS lasers and Pump alphastrikers.

[mechastophiles]

Wait, you can attach your freq doublers to different couplers?

[terminater]

I discovered this by fighting twin guards 'Angelic'.

[xontrax]

Hi. how to turn on these 4 arrows that show where the front of the block we want to place is.

[OmicronMkI]

I can see the application for this as a general-purpose system, or as an easy prefab, but as other commenters have pointed out, it may lack storage capacity for use in some LAMS applications, and it lacks pumps for DPS output. The optimal arrangement for a 3x3 DPS laser with no destabilizers and only one combiner is one storage cavity and five or six standard cavities. This will give you a pumping rate equal to 85.3% or 100.17% of the discharge rate. The arrangement shown in this video has a value of 72%.
A 3x3 cavity line with one destabilizer and a storage cavity requires 13 standard cavities to get the most out of it and has a pumping rate of 99.14% of the discharge rate. Other configurations are valid as well, the main reason for the popularity of the storage and standard cavities is because they are the most material and volume efficient for their respective purposes. Of course, storage cavities aren't even necessary for a multi-combiner DPS laser, as long as you use enough combiners and maybe a destabilizer or two. I will also agree that the single-input cavities are in kind of an awkward niche where their best uses are in applications such as this one, or where the arrangement is too small for a conventional 3x3 design.

[MrJay_White]

annoying thing: the kill rate for a rail system the same volume.

[HarenunHoppus]

Whats the better tetris? Cram has many combinations to me

[tc-helic]

Im trying to decipher what the emojis in the title mean but I can't understand it. Please help me Mr B-wise.