Author Topic: Vote BOTM March 2011 (Read 11875 times)

Meganerdbomb · « **Reply #40 on:** February 27, 2011, 01:39:23 PM »

#5 is probably the most combat effective one though.

RedAce · « **Reply #41 on:** February 27, 2011, 04:00:35 PM »

I voted for #7.

philetbabe · « **Reply #42 on:** February 27, 2011, 04:01:09 PM »

#1 Chimera is certainly a good bot, even a very good bot .... but classic
#2 With it 4 wheels, nice snowplow is the best build with #6
#3 won't beat much bots (oh sorry, may beat some weaker starecore..) anyway, this is the one that most feats its name, it is beautiful indeed, and beautiful bots are not common.
#4 i would like to see it in action, those hammer may be deadly, but i doubt about its traction, isn't this bot too slow ? does it turn well ?
#5 colored ! Also the lone that use cheatcode as said before, i regret i can't see inside it
#6 modern, well skined, best build with #2
#7 : best skined : much like #3 a big effort with skin design
#8 : Every one did start at a time, the bot is not so bad for medium builder, the real problem with #8 is the writing : mostly unreadable

so i vote for .... Poetry and #3

Naryar · « **Reply #43 on:** February 27, 2011, 05:00:19 PM »

8 has to have the ugliest BOTM splash I have ever seen

kill343gs · « **Reply #44 on:** February 27, 2011, 05:19:28 PM »

Ice Phoenix is so pretty....

ianh05 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 27, 2011, 06:11:38 PM »

Quote from: Sage on February 27, 2011, 12:54:21 PM

Quote from: Pwnator on February 27, 2011, 02:35:19 AM
Quote from: Sage on February 27, 2011, 12:41:00 AM
If Ice Phoenix wins, ima be so upset. IT CAN'T DO ANYTHING. looks shouldn't be everything in BOTM. like I would rather have #8 win.

So beating some SC bots isn't 'doing anything'? :P

And that HS thing can beat and lose to SC bots as well.

Besides, when's the last time you've seen a stock artbot? :P

Yea, I had a MW take out a SHW Starcore bot. Just saying "starcore" doesn't get anyone any points. I'm judging effectiveness between the entries. BOTM used to be cool, now it's just whoever makes the best eye candy.

hopefully the good builders step outside their building comfort zone and try to experiment with new designs, I've always liked unique robots other the basic combat effective popup :P we see way too many popups and 36hsers in the stock showcases so when we see something different we get inspired to try out new things.

you think it's a bad thing that the "pretty" and unique robots win all the time over the common combat effective ones? well the combat effective ones get to win AI tournaments all the time... more showcases like click's would be awesome and we know that there are plenty of builders who could build some nice unique robots but stick to the common robot designs.

Sage · « **Reply #46 on:** February 27, 2011, 06:55:36 PM »

you can be unique without sacrificing ALL combat effectiveness. That's the challenge of stock building.

ianh05 · « **Reply #47 on:** February 27, 2011, 07:21:54 PM »

Quote from: Sage on February 27, 2011, 06:55:36 PM

you can be unique without sacrificing ALL combat effectiveness. That's the challenge of stock building.

true, guys like click and Inf have shown us that but these days you see lots of clones of the same thing just modified a bit which is why bots like ice phoenix win BOTM. I was actually planning to enter a Paul Phoenix bot for this BOTM a nicely skinned standing boxing bot with a number of different attacks lol.

J · « **Reply #48 on:** February 27, 2011, 10:58:54 PM »

Quote from: Sage on February 27, 2011, 06:55:36 PM

you can be unique without sacrificing ALL combat effectiveness.

*cough*

Enoch · « **Reply #49 on:** February 27, 2011, 11:53:10 PM »

ok, first off, my bad for puttin my name in he splash -.- ive only seen one BOTM splash(last months Ion By NFX) and i coulda swore the Ion By NFX at the top was part of the splash therefore i posted my name lol, now onto other things...

@Sage i apologize if this is a "copycat bot" but alas i have only seen 4 of your bots(the ones in ur sig) since i feel browsing other ppl's bots ruins my own creativity, and alas my name isnt the same its "MC HammerTime" not "MC Hammer" close tho and i do apologize -.- perhaps i should go look through every BOTM contest before i post another BOTM bot lol

@ppl who wonder about its effectiveness - this bot originally started as a weapon system test and i must admit i didnt finish it.... he is only a "proof of concept", turned tributary. the motion of the sledges flips all bots ive encountered but his wedge kinda fails -.- with some work this weapon concept could work wonders, even still theres only 25-30 minutes work into this bot(apparent if you saw internals) and if you would like i can upload its .bot file to either the BOTM bot section or to the exchange just so you can all play with it...... on another weapon concept note, i have been attempting to experiment with weapon systems not commonly used and so far have made 3 new weapon systems ive not seen implemented yet ^^ this is one of them

@BOTM contest - i think #1 is a Sage bot(looks identical to the 4 in his sig lol)
Bruce and Pulse look effective but pulse is a commonly used style
the Ice Falcon or w/e its name was looks neat but "neat" doesnt mean much to me... i voted #1 since i like that style bot and paint just isnt enough for me... imo if it cant murder its worthless lol
@ #8 not a bad attempt but please next time use actual text instead of spraypaint -.- thats just impossible to understand