What's the point of Relays?

[Sirrus]

It seems like Relay is just a less useful version of NamedBrick.
Is there anything that sets it apart?

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[yuki]

It allows you to set specific bricks off in any axis. It's VERY useful.

[Sirrus]

It allows you to set specific bricks off in any axis. It's VERY useful.

Give me an example. I suppose it would be useful for using one command for the Master brick (FireRelay) and one for the Slave brick (OnRelay), as apposed to several commands on the Master (NamedBrick).

But I still don't see how anything accomplished with FireRelay couldn't be accomplished with NamedBrick

[Ghoul]

It basically works as a wire. You can have it shoot any projectile to any brick, and have that brick shoot it somewhere else.

[rkynick]

You don't have to clog up your named brick and it allows you to activate a functionbrick which does something, or make wires that relays flow down to activate things.

It also gives you another input channel and allows you to make loops. I made pong paddles with relays and projectiles.

[Sirrus]

It basically works as a wire. You can have it shoot any projectile to any brick, and have that brick shoot it somewhere else.

So for example, you could have a brick fire a Radio Wave along with a Relay towards another brick that shoots that Relay/radio wave combo towards another brick that in turn triggers a third?

I suppose...

[Ladios]

It would work like the music thingy methinks.

[tapemaster21]

Relays are super-useful if you don't want to have a billion named bricks.

[Sirrus]

Relays are super-useful if you don't want to have a billion named bricks.

True.

[Digmaster]

They are very useful. It a link to the brick, kinda like a onactivate. You could gey by without them, but it would be much harder. I sue them all the time.

[IcyGamma]

They are very useful. It a link to the brick, kinda like a onactivate. You could gey by without them, but it would be much harder. I sue them all the time.

You sue them? 

[Chrono]

Why don't you try to make a Midi sequencer with only named bricks?
The firerelay(direction) works really well for this, because it fires on each plate level.
So a 1x1x5 firing north to a stack of 1x1fs would hit all the ones the 1x1x5 touches.

[Sirrus]

Why don't you try to make a Midi sequencer with only named bricks?
The firerelay(direction) works really well for this, because it fires on each plate level.
So a 1x1x5 firing north to a stack of 1x1fs would hit all the ones the 1x1x5 touches.

I see. That would take a long time using just named bricks.

And you're working on a midi sequencer?

[Chrono]

No, but many have been done easily with relays.

[smartypantsp]

You could gay by without them, but it would be much harder. I sue them all the time.