game is losing the fun-factor again due to lack of community.

[Sage]

Stock was fun until we finally had to put a limitation on in-game glitches (hax mode).

It is really unfortunate that happened really.  From my perspective, since the unveiling of hax mode.  The veterans that embraced it have lost interest in the community because it is not allowed in tournaments. Yet, tournament hosts don't want such an unbalanced playing field.  So they disallow hax mode to make a tournament more inviting to new/unskilled builders.   It makes tournaments more inviting and fun, but alienates the elite builders that take things to the next level.

It's actually kinda fascinating how delicate the balance is (and continues to be).

Honestly, I would love a hax mode centric tournament that got entries from Sage, Scrap, Robo, Psyc, Inf, etc etc. (Plus current awesome stock builders)

yeah this. nothing is stopping anyone from showcasing hax mode bots or running hax mode tourneys.

Oh cool. I'll go make something then.

[ianh05]

Also you are building AW stock AI pack and an "I DON"T ACCEPT NEW BOT" pack....  Like just maybe they are not the most interesting things in the universe...

I know people don't like them much, I've been trying to encourage more sub-weight building but it turns out that only I can come up with new AW designs :P things that weren't done before me:

*AW wammers, Unicorn is a good example.
*Axle spinners including a 4 razor HS axle spinner :)

I'm not the best builder here, nowhere near it so I know you guys can do something even better.

[J]

I think "Lack of fun factor" might be due the fact just about every robot in Stock(and DSL, I guess), can only use like 1-2 weapons, and everything else just gets frowned upon.

Battleaxes look absolutely badass. Do they kill robots? Hardly. Would you want to sacrifice looks over efficiency?
Let me ask you this: If you destroy another robot, would you want to look good doing so? Or just have a real tacky appearance?

[Mr. AS]

Battleaxes look absolutely badass. Do they kill robots? Hardly.

they make cool armor though.....

[Sage]

HEY.

I LOVE BATTLEAXES.

[J]

HEY.

I LOVE BATTLEAXES.

Would ever use them as your robot's primary weapon?

[Pwnator]

HEY.

I LOVE BATTLEAXES.

Would ever use them as your robot's primary weapon?

Would be pretty cool to have them on a flipper. Maybe a popup. Anything else, meh.