Author Topic: How do you remember your bot designs (Read 2890 times)

Reier · « **on:** October 12, 2009, 09:55:32 AM »

When you have a brainstorm, how do you remember your bot design for later? IE do you draw it down really fast, just remember it, etc.
Please explain.

roboman2444 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2009, 09:57:21 AM »

since i have a good memory( for things my brain wants to remember, like designs, schematics, and pi) i just remember it.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2009, 09:58:04 AM »

most times just remember, sometimes scribble out a drawing to help

Reier · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2009, 10:05:43 AM »

I draw it down usually, since when I have a brainstorm it's really detailed and I can't remember it later.

roboman2444 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2009, 10:12:56 AM »

i usually just think of the basic design, and lator( when im building it) i do all the extender work and whatnot.

like now im thinking of a full body vs and a full body hs.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2009, 10:29:20 AM »

I doodle them at school and then build the best looking designs at home.

System32 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2009, 10:47:48 AM »

I never have brain storms, I just throw stuff together and rebuild till it works.

kill343gs · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:17:10 AM »

Mostly what S32 said, but sometimes I get a good idea and don't write it down on paper and then it is lost forever!

somestrangeguy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:29:35 AM »

I have super picture memory, if I see a picture or picture something in my head, I can remember it for a long time. Weeks, sometimes even months.
This does become annoying sometimes when I feel like reading old comic books I have read, all I have to do is to see the cover and I remember most of the content >_<

Somebody · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:45:51 PM »

Normally i think stuff up a school and come home to build it. Whenever I have a really good idea my parents actually let me stay on the computer longer because they are impressed by my robots and know that I'll forget the idea if I don't build it.

So you could say that the game remembers it for me.

Reier · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:54:12 PM »

Quote from: Somebody;72163

Normally i think stuff up a school and come home to build it. Whenever I have a really good idea my parents actually let me stay on the computer longer because they are impressed by my robots and know that I'll forget the idea if I don't build it.

So you could say that the game remembers it for me.

Lucky.

roboman2444 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:55:31 PM »

wow ur lucky
the only way my parents would let me do that is if i made a splash afterward, cuz "that is something that will help you in life"

Reier · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:56:39 PM »

Luckier.

Somebody · « **Reply #13 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:59:01 PM »

Normally those awsum bots turn out to be a good bot or an EPIC FAIL, normally caused by rule of 7 or multitude of other glitches.

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 12, 2009, 12:59:31 PM »

Ill try to remember it so much good as I can.

Natef · « **Reply #15 on:** October 12, 2009, 02:47:27 PM »

I sometimes rebuild out of a copy of one of my other bots (Physical Pain was made of a modified Crime and Punishment 4 chassis.

GameKing3 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 12, 2009, 03:31:02 PM »

I pretty much just throw things together and rebuild till it works and if i can't make it work the way i want ill start from scratch using the idea that i have come up with. Sometimes i will think of idea's when i am away from my computer and then normally i just remember them for later.

Sage · « **Reply #17 on:** October 12, 2009, 03:55:02 PM »

I think of an idea first. Next, I work out what I want it to have in it, and what it will look like. After I decide that, I figure out the extender setup and the chassis layout. I build the entire bot in my head, and then with the help of a piece of paper figure out the weight of all the components. That tells me exactly how heavy the chassis can be. So, when I go into game, I know exactly what I'm doing and can build the bot in a timely fashion, unless it's impossible to get the chassis down to the size I need.

Example of this is Nefarious.The chassis needed to be <20 kgs. I got that, but I would need to stack 2 blacks and CB, which i couldn't do at the time.

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #18 on:** October 12, 2009, 04:32:08 PM »

Usually my ideas come to me while I am slaving away at work. I work alone 90 percent of the time so I usually think a lot. When I get a decent idea, I scribble it down on a piece of paper and lose it in one of my pockets.

The Ounce · « **Reply #19 on:** October 12, 2009, 04:49:12 PM »

My method is somewhat a combination of the above 2, I usually get an idea while I'm at school. I first imagine the design itself, then imagine the component setup for the design. I implement the components and setup into a chassis I see fit, using different parts or setups if necessary, and rebuild the chassis to fit it around the components.