Vote BOTM Feb 2013

[Classicus]

Annoying people by winning all the time is a good thing.

[Mr. AS]

So are we going to continue denying that this game is dying or what? The number of people who have been entering BOTM's has been slowly decreasing, and now we're at one entrant (who is probably ACAMS anyway.) At this rate I honestly can't see this game having more than a year or two left in it.

Hey guys let's all now just say how much the community is dying when we are doing nothing to stop it from dying.

because youre doing oh so much about it too

Vote for your favorite train bot


You useless, lazy no good suckers vote for #1


Here is the #1 you vote for

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Wanna create a new bot?  Everything's been done already

its honestly not that difficult to make a bot that isnt RPB/NWB/whatever clone #1 million. bots are only as bad as the builder is.

take for example this showcase: https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,7401.0.html most of the bots in there are the kind of "bleh" or "built over 9000 times" or "LAME" kind of bots from a frankly average/below average builder.

now look at this one: https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,755.0.html
(note the abundance of hybrids near the end, and how its almost always creative all the way through)
hes one of the best builders in the community, and also one of the most creative. certainly not coincidence, and i certainly think most would agree.
(inb4 "yeah well were not all saeg ecksdee")
you can atleast TRY to be creative like that. if you work at it you could be on that level someday.

[martymidget]

Damn, if only I'd known this was going on.

You didn't know a botm was going on? Really? Where do you live, the Junkyard?

I didn't enter because as a number of people have said before, the theme put me off, and not to mention I just got the whole skinning thing after putting in a tiny bit of effort.

Standard BoTM next month and I will most likely enter. You may even hold me to that.

[madman3]

Madman, ra2o is open, you are the deffending HW champ.

woops time to build

[ACAMS]

If you want more BoTM entries, one thing you can try is offering some sort of prize for the winner.  One good idea would be to let the winner of one month's BoTM pick the theme for the next one.

Good Idea ..... see, you are not totally useless.

[Meganerdbomb]

I voted for the number one #1.

[Jamin]

Wanna create a new bot?  Everything's been done already, unless you do IRL (which is a complete waste of time).  Either way most people don't care.

Oh, it's still possible to create new bot designs. The only problem is that the whole community is going to frown upon you unless you focus your time towards building the same generic designs that everyone else builds.

[J]

ACAMS should be a hipster, and make a BOTM for RA1.

[RedSawn]

> Thinking of entering the month's BOTM today
> Open up GTM to see what it is
> Voting thread appeared yesterday and the last post is top of the recent list

Well.. balls.
Nice single entry though x)

[cephalopod]

Wanna create a new bot?  Everything's been done already, unless you do IRL (which is a complete waste of time).  Either way most people don't care.

Oh, it's still possible to create new bot designs. The only problem is that the whole community is going to frown upon you unless you focus your time towards building the same generic designs that everyone else builds.

Because it's not super-efficient and/or good at killing something current.

[madman3]

Wanna create a new bot?  Everything's been done already, unless you do IRL (which is a complete waste of time).  Either way most people don't care.

Oh, it's still possible to create new bot designs. The only problem is that the whole community is going to frown upon you unless you focus your time towards building the same generic designs that everyone else builds.

Because it's not super-efficient and/or good at killing something current.

Artbots are fine. Conceptual bots like turret spinners and so on are fine. IRL is fine. What isn't is basically producing a design which is just badly designed and then passing it off as originality. If it works better, fine, but if you're going to make a robot that is worse and then pass it off as an attempt to be original then you're simply lying to us (obviously not referring to you Craaig since your a good builder, just a general message for everyone). If a robot ends up being generic, whatever. As long as it works well and does its job better than other designs, that's okay, that's how we ended up making designs we call generic; if a design was bad no-one would use it. New designs are great too, but poop dressed in new clothes is still poop in the end.

[HurricaneAndrew]

I like how the same people bitching about how RA2 is dying and no one gives a sh** are the same ones that enter sh** like JAMIN EATS PENIS into tournaments and so forth.

[Jamin]

I like how the same people bitching about how RA2 is dying and no one gives a sh** are the same ones that enter sh** like JAMIN EATS PENIS into tournaments and so forth.

but JAMIN EATS PENIS was a totally legitimate robot?

[Noodle]

I like how the same people bitching about how RA2 is dying and no one gives a sh** are the same ones that enter sh** like JAMIN EATS PENIS into tournaments and so forth.

It was an actual robot (albeit a bad one), I just gave it a funny name.  I know you're predisposed to just reading the name and not taking a good look at the robot (because that might require some thinking power that you don't posses), but I figured you'd be able to figure that out on your own.

[Scrap Daddy]

and jamin certainly does eat penis

[JoeBlo]

Congrats to #1, you now hold the record for the easiest and only ever gifted win in BOTM... also the last it seems

[HurricaneAndrew]

I like how the same people bitching about how RA2 is dying and no one gives a sh** are the same ones that enter sh** like JAMIN EATS PENIS into tournaments and so forth.

but JAMIN EATS PENIS was a totally legitimate robot?

Well, then whatever the rest of the bots that 09 entered were. You get the point.

[Meganerdbomb]

I love how everyone bitching about how RA2 is dead didn't bother entering themselves. Also, I really like #1.

[090901]

ok guys i'm going to go and try to make a train right now brb

[090901]

ok guys i'm going to go and try to make a train right now brb

ok back: