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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: Conraaa on June 29, 2011, 03:31:48 PM
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When you're making a 'bot, is the name of the robot important to you? Or is it a mere afterthought for you? Do you have any themes/traditions when naming your bots?
Most of the time I name my robots after songs, in case you haven't noticed already. And for some reason I usually come up with the name before i've even started making the robot.
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Sometimes they're based on the name, sometimes the name describes them, sometimes it's an inside joke
and sometimes it's really really offensive.
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I come up with the name after I've built the bot, unless I'm building a bot around a name.
The names of mine are usually silly, like Helifapper
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Recently I've taken to naming mine after Exodus songs (Piranha, A Lesson In Violence) or Carcass songs (Buried Dreams).
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I whatever comes to mind is what I name 'em.
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I use cheesy adjectives. :D
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Afterthought, mostly.
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I normally make up something off the top of my head once I've built the thing. Occasionally I have an idea of what it could be called before I'm finished, but more often than not it's a sort of afterthought.
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I tend to think of cool names, typically team-related, before I build, saving them in the form of empty BOT files in the team. I then build them one-by-one.
Come to think of it, I just had a random thought- "Bitter Consolations" would be a good name for a bot.
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1. Equations
2. Keyboard mash
3. Literally describe the bot.
4. Songs
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I would use #2 but I am afraid i'd close the game and lose the bot in the process.
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Sort of controlled like. Fronhild (just did that)
You need to consider vowel locations but don't think about the whole word.
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half of my bots are called enter bot name until they go into tournaments or something hahahah
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half of my bots are called enter bot name until they go into tournaments or something hahahah
That. Though I name the bots that I thought about before I actually built it...which is rare for me really.
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Most of my bot names can actually be described as "placeholder" names. As in, I really can't think of anything better. =D
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Sometimes a great name comes up randomly when I'm doing something completely unrelated to Robot Arena or while I'm building the bot. Other times I just look at the bot for a while until a good name strikes. If I can't think of anything, I just put random letters together to make something cool, like Eximoq.
(Almost 3 year old grammar edit)
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I usually think of a name and a weapon system at the same time, then I build the bot.
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Mine usually got their name during the building process.
Like this one I was building for a MW tournament....BEFORE effee glitch, and axle glitch, and all the other glitches that made making a bot like the easy.
http://myfolderz.com/ACAMS/RA2/misery.jpg (http://myfolderz.com/ACAMS/RA2/misery.jpg)
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Pictures?
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ATM from my Newcastle Team in 2020 on Football Manager 2009.
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I just usually make my names either A. Sound incredibly scientific, or B. Just make it sound cool in general.
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thesaurus.com
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All songs.
Every, single, one.
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It's whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Like for example my mind was completely on the risks of using plastic armour when I christened "The Plastic Peril"
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It's whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Like for example my mind was completely on the risks of using plastic armour when I christened "The Plastic Peril"
Or thinking of long-extinct prehistoric Pokemon (or Japanese helmets, for that matter) when you came up with Mutant Kabuto? :approve:
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I always try and give my bots "clever" names.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.
That, or if I'm making my teams I just go for what would be the next "better" thing.
Like if I named my team after rocks, I would name then like this:
"LW - Pebble"
"MW - boulder"
"HW - Avalanche"
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You could do one of my ideas, start with a base name, and then just completely derail it.
'AW - Krabby
BW - Parasect
LW - Parry
MW - Mitsurugi
HW - Soul Calibur
SHW - Tekken
UHW - Street Fighter'
Ya see? Pretty crazy, but they all connect.
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You could do one of my ideas, start with a base name, and then just completely derail it.
'AW - Krabby
BW - Parasect
LW - Parry
MW - Mitsurugi
HW - Soul Calibur
SHW - Tekken
UHW - Street Fighter'
Ya see? Pretty crazy, but they all connect.
LW- I like
MW- Old Movies
HW- Like the Godfather
AW- Three
BW- It's not considered the Best One
SHW- But that's just me
:trollface
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You could do one of my ideas, start with a base name, and then just completely derail it.
'AW - Krabby
BW - Parasect
LW - Parry
MW - Mitsurugi
HW - Soul Calibur
SHW - Tekken
UHW - Street Fighter'
Ya see? Pretty crazy, but they all connect.
LW- I like
MW- Old Movies
HW- Like the Godfather
AW- Three
BW- It's not considered the Best One
SHW- But that's just me
:trollface
*IRL Laughter*
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You could do one of my ideas, start with a base name, and then just completely derail it.
'AW - Krabby
BW - Parasect
LW - Parry
MW - Mitsurugi
HW - Soul Calibur
SHW - Tekken
UHW - Street Fighter'
Ya see? Pretty crazy, but they all connect.
LW- I like
MW- Old Movies
HW- Like the Godfather
AW- Three
BW- It's not considered the Best One
SHW- But that's just me
:trollface
*IRL Laughter*
*Bows*
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it :approve:
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It's whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Like for example my mind was completely on the risks of using plastic armour when I christened "The Plastic Peril"
Or thinking of long-extinct prehistoric Pokemon (or Japanese helmets, for that matter) when you came up with Mutant Kabuto? :approve:
Both actually, it looked a lot like the helmet, and I thought people would get the Pokemon reference. The name itself came about because I was thinking of the way John Madden talks and sometimes slurs words together, "Mutant Kabuto" is the kind of phrase where he'd barely pronounce any of the syllables.
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It's whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Like for example my mind was completely on the risks of using plastic armour when I christened "The Plastic Peril"
Or thinking of long-extinct prehistoric Pokemon (or Japanese helmets, for that matter) when you came up with Mutant Kabuto? :approve:
Both actually, it looked a lot like the helmet, and I thought people would get the Pokemon reference. The name itself came about because I was thinking of the way John Madden talks and sometimes slurs words together, "Mutant Kabuto" is the kind of phrase where he'd barely pronounce any of the syllables.
Ah, so bonus points for referencing both things, then :approve:
Also, I enjoyed seeing the Mortis rep back in action for the TF2 Tournament.
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Aye, I've been looking for an excuse to give that one more action. I replaced the square extenders with steel, so hopefully the weapons won't break as easily.
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I spend a long time thinking of names for my bot.
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I dunno why, but I've been wanting to make a bot called Zyrinx for quite a while now.
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I just name my bots whatever the first thing that comes into my mind is.
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Aye, I've been looking for an excuse to give that one more action. I replaced the square extenders with steel, so hopefully the weapons won't break as easily.
And a good reasoning for it too, with it winning the "Best Engineered" robot award and all. Now all I need to see is a Plunderbird 1 rep somewhere, and I think I can die happy :D
Now I just wonder what robots you chose to represent the Spy and the Heavy...
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It can't be too difficult. Maybe the elevated bit on the back might be problematic, but I think some well-placed flipper segments might work.
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It depends, if i'm going for a theme, I choose a name based on that. If not, I usually try to make some goofy pun based on what the robot is..(I Saw Whut U did Thur, a good example). Sometimes, I build a bot solely because of the name. But truly, my most oft used name is "Enter Bot Name"
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It can't be too difficult. Maybe the elevated bit on the back might be problematic, but I think some well-placed flipper segments might work.
Indeed- then that just leaves how to implement the circular saw arm- it was designed to flip out of the robot at a 180-degree angle.
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Piglet on Servo?
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Piglet on Servo?
Yes- or an Overkill motor rewired as a servo-that's limited to 180.
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half of my bots are called enter bot name until they go into tournaments or something hahahah
^ This ^
Then at that point I think "If this wins something what would be cool name"
I named showcase robots with Joke names, etc but its always serious names in tournaments
Another thing is Fire robots.. almost all have a reference to fire or flammable substances
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I often try to upgrade or adapt existing designs, so their names are often part of a series (Bane, Circle of Thorns), other than that I just use names that sound cool, thought up after the bot has been built.
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I come up with names before I build bots. In the case of Constellation, the name inspired the bot itself.
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Right now I'm naming bots after songs but before I just used whatever popped into my head. Flaze, Zantetsuken and a few other memorable bots were named that way :P
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I name my robots after places, things that happen in space or words that look good together.
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Most of my bots are unnamed. For tourney entries I try to come up with something that describes the bot in some way; such as Poke-A-Bot was a poker and Omnivore ate other robots and Spinoff was a spinoff of Omnivore.