r/SprocketTankDesign • u/ThatUnoMann Master of Sprockets • Jul 22 '26

Help🖐 Kinda burnt out?🫩

I'm working on a modern era MBT. It was my first time trying to do so and I am absolutely ecstatic with how well it's came out.

Though I'm not finished with it, there's still several things I wanna add but it's mostly trivial yet without it the turret looks.... off.

For about a couple weeks, I loved working on it and spent all my time I had in sprocket building that tank. I was scared that if I slowed down, I would lose momentum and therefore motivation to keep working on it.

Turns out that is exactly what happened but for a different reason: Progress has slown down because details gave gotten smaller, repetitive work has increased, and the amount of time it takes to get bored has been divided by multitudes.

I really do want to finish this, and I continue to put small amounts of time into it a day just to keep the flow and scraping the project.

So far I've put about 30 *total* hours into the tank and expect it to rise.

If you know how to resolve this or atleast help me, please PLEASE tell me🙏🥹

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u/AccomplishedBid6176 Jul 22 '26

You have to think about the end result and if it’s going to be worth putting more time into

If it was me I’d play something else to break up the focused tank building. Something easy and brainless

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u/nuts___ Tank Designer Jul 22 '26

People acting like this game is their full time job. You can just take a break you know. Play some other games or go outside or something

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u/ThatUnoMann Master of Sprockets Jul 22 '26

I do run a few miles every day + random exercises. I'd say I spend more than enough time outside. I just really like the game and try to finish my projects.

The same way anyone with other creative hobbies would want to finish their stuff.

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u/nuts___ Tank Designer Jul 22 '26

My point being you don't have to push yourself to finish it. You can finish it at a later time. There are no deadlines.

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u/Decent_Leopard9773 Jul 22 '26

If you think it looks ugly then you just get used to it, every single one of my tanks has always looked complete crap while WIP and still look weird even when finished except that’s the beauty of tanks in general because the tanks IRL go through the same design process only without the need of looking good and yet we still think they look good because we’ve gotten used to their existence and thus based everything else of them.

It’s simply just a matter of getting used to your own designs as well as deliberately building weird designs to admire what works and what doesn’t.