A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.

[Sparkey98]

Oh! Do you know where you can see all the entries?

[Jack Daniels]

yea it was part of a skinning contest ACAMS held. I sucked at skinning (as you can see) and I didnt win.

History lesson: It was the ONLY time I ever beat Sage at anything. :D

[DuckRA2]

Oh look Jd
(Image removed from quote.)

Actually sparkles that was mine... xD

I still have that bot. I forget what my skin was like.

[Somebody]

And Oggie was full of potential too, if anyone remembers him.

Although we are sad about so many great builders leaving, you cannot say that it was unexpected. You cant expect someone to stay interested with a game for too many years. Whether or not you think that RA2 is dying, the forums are growing. For a forum this small, it is amazing how active it is. This forum will never die. When great builders leave, more rise up to take their place in our history. Something special about these forums is that we remember so well things that are important in our history, and people who were great. Instead of worrying about the builders who left, worry about your robots and how you can enter them and yourselves in the ranks of those who we talk about and miss so much.

tl;dr: Do not worry about those who left, just remember their history, and work to add your own page to it, for your own achievements.

[Sparkey98]

Exactley.
 
RA1 and 2 are no longer just dead old games that have a small fanbase, they've turned themselves into an intire platform for robot building, and modding. I think, soon, mods are gonna take over, and custom components will be legal, and we might even have the technology to have a bot with a certain component work in a game withought said component.

[Sage]

yea it was part of a skinning contest ACAMS held. I sucked at skinning (as you can see) and I didnt win.

History lesson: It was the ONLY time I ever beat Sage at anything. :D

Hahaha xD

[Somebody]

@Sparkey: Well...
RA1 is dead, because it sucked
Custom components will not become legal if they are unbalanced. It is clear though that a well distributed and balanced custom components/rebalancing mod can become very popular.
And I do not know if using components without having them is possible, but who knows what someone could come up with. I would guess not but you never know *and in pops Serge saying *oh sure I can whip that right up* XD

[Sparkey98]

Well, you get the point, Ra2 is an ever expanding platform.

[Sparkey98]

I know, I just mean it's went from something at the social level of pac man to the social level of Python.
At a program frat party lolz

[Sparkey98]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040305092605/www.aceuplink.com/discussion/index.php?showtopic=2614

People were assholes to me in the old days :D.
(pretty normal, since I was the Sparkey of the forums)

Yet you treat me like they treated you :P
http://web.archive.org/web/20040228145205/www.aceuplink.com/discussion/index.php?showtopic=2200
http://web.archive.org/web/20040228150422/www.aceuplink.com/discussion/index.php?showtopic=2542

[JoeBlo]

Well, you get the point, Ra2 is an ever expanding platform.

the only thing I see dying out in RA2 is stock myself.. as its the only thing that cannot advance (sad but you know its true)

DSL will slowly fade for the time being with NarAI (which is basically DSL anyway) but will bounce back big time when click releases DSL 3

I hope myself that Backlash doesnt flop... although I dont really care.. honestly all im really doing is making the game the way I want it :P

anyway Back on the topic...

[Sparkey98]

Exactey what I was thinking!

[Badnik96]

And Oggie was full of potential too, if anyone remembers him.

Although we are sad about so many great builders leaving, you cannot say that it was unexpected. You cant expect someone to stay interested with a game for too many years. Whether or not you think that RA2 is dying, the forums are growing. For a forum this small, it is amazing how active it is. This forum will never die. When great builders leave, more rise up to take their place in our history. Something special about these forums is that we remember so well things that are important in our history, and people who were great. Instead of worrying about the builders who left, worry about your robots and how you can enter them and yourselves in the ranks of those who we talk about and miss so much.

tl;dr: Do not worry about those who left, just remember their history, and work to add your own page to it, for your own achievements.

QFT.

[Sparkey98]

http://web.archive.org/web/20010301212936/www.robotarena.com/botlab.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20010303021420/www.robotarena.com/opponents.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20030811203333/robotarena.com/wizforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1674&PN=1
http://web.archive.org/web/20030811204154/robotarena.com/wizforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1677&PN=1
http://img444.imageshack.us/i/costruzionepb7.jpg/

[Badnik96]

That last pic is the DSL Forkie!

[Sparkey98]

Meh

[Sparkey98]

DP
http://web.archive.org/web/20070916010550/https://gametechmods.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20080529043612/https://gametechmods.com/

[Sage]

WOAH GTM had almost 3000 members?? where the did they all go? why is the member count different now?

[Naryar]

and we might even have the technology to have a bot with a certain component work in a game without said component.

NO

[Somebody]

@Sage: ACAMS deleted a bunch of the ones who hadn't visited in months and had no posts to speed up the forum.