Element Count

[Anonymousperson5]

I went and tallied up every dot I used in my first 20 uploads. Remember this is not ALL my uploads, I have yet to calculate those.

The results are:
Powder=1978
Water=8532
Fire=1192
Seed=1365
Gunpowder=2912
Fan=189
Ice=1932
Superball=456
Clone=5501
Fireworks=1988
Oil=944
C-4=17508
Stone=2833
Magma=1072
Virus=1286
Nitro=5553
Ant=625
Torch=15371
Gas=951
Soapy=4909
Thunder=1321
Metal=79822
Bomb=1621
Laser=1557
Acid=1620
Vine=1396
Salt=5810
Glass=43993
Bird=317
Mercury=1812
Spark=2220
Fuse=22538
Cloud=5189
Pump=10496
Wood=3712
Saltwater=2188
Snow=87
Steam=2739

If you want, you can tally up yours too. It's fun to see what elements you really use most. I was shocked to see that metal appeared in every single upload I went through. I was also shocked to discover I had actually used snow too, if only for show. I was also shocked that I used more wood than steam. I think it was mostly intertwine though. c:

I plan to tally up the rest, take it as parts out of 39000, and upload it. (the other 1000 is for a text explanation)

[mdog95]

You must have been really bored.

[Likep]

^This^

[Anonymousperson5]

Lul
It's entertaining though

[Alphaepic]

I can't imagine what metal would be for people like Cod and M4...

[Anonymousperson5]

I might try adding those up sometime myself.

[Alphaepic]

What do you do in your spare time?!

This made me look at my uploads and realize how little liquids I use...

[mdog95]

I think pump got its entire count from Intertwine

[Alphaepic]

I use SO much torch and laser it's not even funny.

Metal and glass are the most used elements of good PG uploaders overall.

[Anonymousperson5]

Intertwine makes only 59% of pump's dot count. Still a hefty amount though.
ikr
I guess I should try using more mercury. Surprising that the elements we think are commonly used really aren't commonly used. Like Mercury. Useful stuff, but not very much actually used.
I think I'll tally up Cod's use of metal. That'll be fun.

[mdog95]

The reason the dots you expect for mercury don't show up don't is because you really only need 1-5 dots for each logical processor. Obviously most tech uploads have more than one logical processor, because tons of them are combined to make one large processor. But my point still stands. You'll end up using a lot more fuse than mercury because it takes multiple dots of fuse to hold up and release just one dot of mercury.

[Alphaepic]

Mercury's used quite a lot, just in small amounts as Mdog said. It's useful properties such as conducting, being heavy, and not destroying torch can be incorporated into tons of things.

Here's a nearly useless element: Bird.

[Anonymousperson5]

Nope
Cloud Computing
You can make a calculator with bird
Derp

[Alphaepic]

It's still pretty useless.

How many times have you seen someone use bird as the basis for an actually GOOD upload?

[Anonymousperson5]

It's because no one on this frontier uploads. Elmach mainly, but also Elcor and MF. It's an interesting branch but hardly anyone goes there. Just because it hasn't been made known to the public doesn't mean it's good.
Herpderp
Maybe I should make a bird upload

[mdog95]

I'll count all of the elements I've used in all of my GOOD uploads (not the second page, because those suck) after my next upload, which will be some kind of really cool fighter arena with a complicated tech system incorporated somewhere in there.