BOTM May 2013

[ACAMS]

- DSL3 beta MW ONLY;
- DON'T use any "new glitches" or "disadvantages" from this beta on your side;
- AI parts that have to be text edited to show ARE NOT allowed;
- "cheatbot2" IS NOT allowed;
- Custom parts ARE NOT allowed;
- Realistic rule APPLIES very strongly, IT MUST BE FOLLOWED;
- NO NARmour;
- NO AAM, NCR glitch, or any other glitch that makes the bot/bots unrealistic;
- Trovaner glitch IS NOT allowed;
- You ARE ALLOWED to BFE the chassis height;
- Replicas ARE NOT allowed;
- CANNOT use DSA;
- The bots MUST look as close to IRL designs as possible (NO unrealistic weapon sizes, disproportionate designs and so);
- The bot/bots MUST NOT have any Collision meshes outside of the Max sphere or other any arena spawning problems as well;
- Multibots ARE ALLOWED;
- Maximum of 2 multibots ARE ALLOWED, and every rule applies for every of the multibots;
- The multibots CAN be a different bot types;
- The multibots CAN be with an uneven weight class distribution (146.0 and 253.0 for example), but still MUST NOT exceed 399.0 when they are summed;
- There will be NO IRL referee, so You will just go ahead and NOT vote for that IRL-failed bot/bots;
- Noobots and noobskins ARE ALLOWED, but NO noobsplashes and unclear splashes tho;
- Venko CANNOT enter;
- Make a splash and upload it using the uploader;
- You MUST include "Thank you for the awesome work, ClickB!" text somehow in your splash;
- You MUST show the weight in your splash, also the armour type, and everything else that cannot be seen from the splash, for any of the multibots;
- Bots that cannot be controlled by humans (only by AI) ARE ALLOWED;
- Bots that cannot show controlled movement (such as bumpleballs) are NOT ALLOWED;
- You MUST include at least 2 poses (for a multibots this means 2 poses for each of the bots) of the insides from a different/opposite angles;
- You MUST include in total at least 4 different angles poses (inside or outside) per bot;
- You MUST include the name/names of the bot/bots in the splash;
- DON'T include anything in the splash that will help to guess who made it;
- Entries can be NO wider than 700px and NO taller than 800px;
- Entries can be any image type NO larger than 1.0 MB (1024KB or less);
- ONLY 1 entry (picture) per member;
- Entries NEED to be in by Friday 4/26/13 12:00 midnight Central time;

[Badnik96]

Totally entering this one

[Kossokei]

ooooh... this is tempting...

[Venko]

I'm not much into DSL, so let's hope that these rules are OK, and what You wanted.
Also let's hope, that the people will be happy with my "DSL3 choice" and "all things cleared in the rules" this time.
If something is not in the rules, it's probably a loophole, this time.
I will judge is something legal, if it's missing or unclear in the rules, so feel free to ask.
[moverightslow]I wish good luck to all entrants  [/moverightslow]

[Kossokei]

- The bot/bots MUST NOT have any Collision meshes outside of the Max sphere or other any arena spawning problems as well;

I'm afraid I don't understand what that means...

[Venko]

I'm afraid I don't understand what that means...

It means You CAN'T do this :

Press F12 in the bot lab to see the green collision meshes, none of them must pass thru the red sphere bound.
Because this will cause spawning (when the bot is about to load on his start position) problems on some arenas.

[ianh05]

- The bot/bots MUST NOT have any Collision meshes outside of the Max sphere or other any arena spawning problems as well;

I'm afraid I don't understand what that means...

In stock you can snapper load stuff way out the right side from a snapper far to the left and swing it around, creating a huge bot that extends outside the max sphere. This causes problems when you try to load the bot into an arena as it could spawn partially outside of the walls.

Venko beat me to it >.<

[Merrick]

Go on then. Not entered one of these before so I'll give it a go.

[Impossible343]

I'll probably enter.

Do you have to upload the bot as well as the splash or just the splash. (BOTM is quite new to me as this will be my first entry.)

[Naryar]

lol does venko really believe that people will follow this giant mess of rules

not to mention some are useless, impractical or just plain silly

[ianh05]

It's DSL3, people would enter no matter the rules.

[Venko]

lol does venko really believe that people will follow this giant mess of rules
Yes, 'cos they may get disqualified, which will be not a problem, since I'm expecting like a 20 entrants at least...
not to mention some are useless, impractical or just plain silly
I just wanted everything to be clear this time.
If You don't like the rules, You can... You know... not enter at all 

[Conraaa]

I'm of the opinon that BOTM should generally just be a deliberatly vague ruleset that you can go wild with, because thinking outisde the box and trying something different what makes it fun! It stifles it a bit when there are even restrictions on how to make your splash. If an entry needs more than a couple of screenshots to make it look good, then I'm fairly sure the entrant will include a couple. And a forced "Thanks, Click!" probably isn't the best way to show appreciation for DSL3 when a genuine comment would work better.*

Besides, I thought Venko not entering was a given considering ACAMS said it, as was not including any pointers as to who made it, as BOTM has always been anonymous.

*Thanks for all your hard work on DSL3, Click! I love the new extenders. They help tremendously in the fight against the rule of seven.

[/twocents]

[Venko]

I'm of the opinon that BOTM should generally just be a deliberatly vague ruleset that you can go wild with, because thinking outisde the box and trying something different what makes it fun! It stifles it a bit when there are even restrictions on how to make your splash.
You should made your points on the discussion thread about this BotM that I made, now it's kinda late...
If an entry needs more than a couple of screenshots to make it look good, then I'm fairly sure the entrant will include a couple.
Some people still make lame splashes.
And a forced "Thanks, Click!" probably isn't the best way to show appreciation for DSL3 when a genuine comment would work better.*
Besides, I thought Venko not entering was a given considering ACAMS said it, as was not including any pointers as to who made it, as BOTM has always been anonymous.
It was not always anonymous... Some of the rules are a bit more of a bad jokes, than something serious.
*Thanks for all your hard work on DSL3, Click! I love the new extenders. They help tremendously in the fight against the rule of seven.
[/twocents]

ACAMS don't just copy+pasted the rules here, there are some corrections he made from my PM, so I suppose that he is OK with every of the lines, if it's not removed (some was removed).

[Conraaa]

I'm of the opinon that BOTM should generally just be a deliberatly vague ruleset that you can go wild with, because thinking outisde the box and trying something different what makes it fun! It stifles it a bit when there are even restrictions on how to make your splash.
You should made your points on the discussion thread about this BotM that I made, now it's kinda late...

1) I'm British. It's hardcoded into our DNA that we like to complain after nothing can be done about it.

2)

You need to PM me the rules for next months BOTM

The "other stuff like stock for example..." didn't get enough votes to get an attention.
ACAMS needs this PM as soon as possible, so no more time for discussions.
Basically, I'm going to send him :
MW
DSL3 beta only
IRL
And the most nazi rules of all time, that will make the loopholing this time imposible.
I think that they are very well made, even that I'm not much into DSL...
Good luck to everyone, this thread is about to be closed.

By the time you mentioned the "nazi rules" you were sending the pm off so I couldn't have said anything anyway.

Oh well nothing that can be done about it now i'm sure we'll get some lovely entries regardless.

[Venko]

1)
2) If it wasn't the "multibot problem", I probably wouldn't made them "nazi" for this one.
Oh well nothing that can be done about it now i'm sure we'll get some lovely entries regardless.
Me too. I will know for future what to do, from now on. And the good news is, that I will not make the next rules for sure 

[Sylandro]

Entering....

[Trovaner]

Just as a reminder to everyone, the signups period for this has no more time left.

[Merrick]

It's nearly 1am, I'm a little drunk, and yeah, just about to start building my entry with 5 hours left.

Let's do this.

[ACAMS]

Entry closed.....

Two entries have been DQed for not following the rules

I will get voting up at 5:00 this evening when I get back from my damn defensive Driving class (got a speeding ticket in my company truck)


Since the two were splash related I will give you until 5 to fix them .... PMs sent