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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: Gigafrost on August 06, 2008, 11:33:09 AM
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If you have already entered in the signup thread, then here is where you talk about your character! But I must post some rules first (are subject to addition):
-No flaming, "my character is better than yours..." kind of attitude.
-Have a positive attitude towards others ideas, its their dicision on how they want their character to look like, not yours...
-Pm me if you want to tell me your idea in private
-INCLUDE the type of person he/she is. Mysterious, wealthy, poor, heroic, cocky, etc. His/her height (max is 6 feet, minimum is 4 feet), maturity age (can be anything, just not too extreme.), and social status (good guy, bad guy, gets along with others, argues alot, etc.) and specialty (what types of bots are they good at) along with any extra info you would like to add.
I ask all these things from you because this will help me in knowing how to create your character. If you want a character, you HAVE to enter in the previous Legends Unleashed thread, or I will overlook your request.
Thank you for any replies!
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My character is a lot like the leader of team sinister.
Also, Are you just naming the teams after our names? I'd really love Oddball Robotics as my team name. If not, meh.
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Poor, short temper, superstitious; thinks everyone is out to get him - stays cooped up in a little underground bunker, it is protected by 30cm DSA (or if you want to be realistic steel) and the exit is a gigantic door;10ft x 10ft, and has 15 locks of differrent shapes, sizes, and types. Evidently not outgoing; doesn't socialize; has no friends. 5 feet 4 inches in height. Specializes in middleweights and pop ups.
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@ System32- The team names are whatever you want. I was going to name the characters off of your guys' username, but i can change it to whatever you like.
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Oddball Robotics it is there.
And my motto: This is gonna hurt...
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Does the character have to be human? :)
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My character is a mysterious hacker with white hair, black eyebrows, ice cold eyes, and wears black gloves with a shark tooth shaped spike sticking out of the back hand area, and ends twords an inch past the knuckle. and he can modify technology with his mind. Which explains why his bots behave in such a peculiar manner. his name is Dotz and no one knows much about him, or the technology used for his bots. They say whenever he shows up at a match in person things go wrong, horribly wrong, he might even be the source of havok explosions. His attitude is quite cocky, often hacking the monitors to show his boyish face so he can laugh at his opponent.
Rumours are going around that he is only 12. It is unknown just What he is, but he doesn't seem quite human.
he is about 4ft. tall. is on no ones side, and he specializes in bots that are strange and out of the ordinary, and preform glitches.
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@ Flying_Chao - no, but they must appear human.
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I want my character to be 6-feet tall, and is very mysterious. No one knows who he is (hence the name "Somebody"), or where he came from. He has brown hair. He loves the concept of robot combat, and specializes in HW Piston bots. He is a Nuclear Engineer, and his team is named Atomic Reaction. All the bots are Nuclear themed, and the team motto is "Enter the fallout zone if you dare..."
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Type of person-Creative, Mechanic
Maturity Age-20
Social Status- Gets along with others, good guy
Specialty- piston rammers and vertical spinners
Looks-5'10", Brown Hair, casual clothes (jeans and t shirt), wrench in one hand, remote control in the other. Never caught dead without the redneck's fixall: Duct tape.
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My character's bio ('cause I'm bored):
Inspired by the dog sharks patrolling the waters of rural west coast Canada, and the weekly showings of Robot Wars every Saturday morning, he took to the arena under the alias "R0B0SH4RK." In the pits, he tries his best to help out the less-skilled builders improve their bots, and is generally a very light-hearted and laid-back individual. In the arena, however, he totally changes. The builders he once helped he crushes, and he will even become heck-bent on destroying his friends bots. Here, he is quick tempered, agressive, arrogant, and will do anything to win. Afterwards, he returns to his mostly calm nature, and will even help repair the bots he destroyed. His specialties are horizontal spinners and "freak" bots.
He stands 5'10", is 18 years old, and is never without his Vancouver Canucks ball cap. His appearance is casual and unassuming. He has a personal vendetta against all jeans.
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hey can my charachter be a mad scientist father who once adopted a mysterious baby. He had always thought that he was odd trying diffrent concoctions until one day he thought he finally had it, a robot of his own creation, he called it Son for heartfelt reasons and efforts of trying to reach out and connect with him. by now, though the mysterious child and been long gone only leaving him a note of recognition on the bot he called Son.The letter read:
Dear Phil,(mad scientist)
You'll find me were this bot truly belongs,use it to get to me, i'll be there doing what i am meant for, which you could never understand.
You do what you love and your love will leave you.(Child Yet To Be Named)
The height of the scientist is 4'11"
Was Weathly, Use to be cocky, And trys to be somewhat heroic.
Age:56
A Confused Person
All around in weight types and using hammers
Mad Scientist Picture:(http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5131/elvingaddwv9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Something in between this and this whatever
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my bio: i rape kids.
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that is very ummmm........................................O_o
intresting
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6'3" around 180 190lbs, a muscular, looming figure. Long shaggy blonde hair with Ice blue eyes and scruffy sideburns. A dark sort of figure, a legend of the shadows. Specializes in Sit N Spinners and H spinners.
A Complete asshole nothing shy of cocky or arrogant, I loom the shadows with Pysc and his tomato plants willing to help those who we like and take on those who we do not. Not seen much for the most part but always is in the picture when a challenge or fight is brought to his attention. He is always willing to join in a fray where he can prove that he is solely the best. With the help of his 3 mates pysc sage and k343, no one messes with any of the Ra2 Elite.
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Good to see everyone flowing with their ideas on how they want their character to be like!
I have recently opened a poll to further see the majority of all of your personalities.
You are able to select more than one option, but remember that your vote WILL be seen by everyone... If you play around with the options, I will create a personality for your character myself.
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My character was member of a Vetearn (alien race) scouting force consisting of a single "Vetearn Scouting Class Cruiser" ship. The crew primarily consisted of robots, but had a few living passengers in cryogenic sleep, one of which bears the eccentric name of "Flying_Chao". The ship is simply supposed to float through deep space, searching for new planets to "unificate" into their empire. However, the ship was hit by a group of asteroids because of a force field malfunction, causing it to have to crash land on the nearest planet that could be capable of life. Crash landing in Antarctica, the ship was damaged beyond repair, along with many of the onboard equipment and robots. The only living survivor was Flying_Chao. Upon scouting out the planet, he decided the best course of action was to use some parts from the ship to build some battle robots and enter them into tournaments, all in order to get the funds neccessary to build a communications system capable of contacting the main Vetearn Empire.
Personality wise, he hardly ever talks, and prefers to observe the "playing field" before making his move. Clothing: A sort of red military-esque costume, similar in color scheme to my avatar. The team name would be "The Vetearn" and the motto would say something about unification or assimilation (I'll think of it later). He should be about average in height.
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Out of curiosity. Are you also creating/skinning an arena? If not, as with any one who hasn't, I will try to skin one for you.
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I will attempt to skin an arena, but if it doesn't work out I will inform you.
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I am finding it harder than I thought to skin an arena.
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It is very easy. Go to your Arena's folder. Go into the folder of the arena that you want to change (box for example for the combat arena), open the Preview image into a image editing program (I use Paint.net, but for less advanced users, use MS paint.), edit the image and save, the same thing applies to the images within the maps folder. I don't know if ms paint handles .tga files, but I know that Paint.net does. It is just another image name like .bmp, png, and gif, except it is integrated onto a 3d model as a skin. Simply edit it as you wish and save.
My advice is to stick with the original layout of the map images. They are arranged in a way that would wrap around the 3d object cleanly. If you are going with a completely different look, remember the orientation of those different "parts" of the image.
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UPDATE! ONLY 11 OUT OF 16 PEOPLE USED THE POLL SO FAR!
If you haven't already, please be sure to post some info about your character as well...
DO NOT post little bits like - I rape kids... (unless you're psy) Let's get serious about these things as it will show up in your biography. It also tells me how to draw you...
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Character: Half-dragon wizard/warrior, but nobody knows it because he never showed his powers or combat skills.
Uses them and his mechanical skills to build bots, but is very secretive about it.
Basically, his bots are magic creations powered by runes, but still do look like normal bots excepted for the glowing scriptures on it that everyone not skilled at magic thinks it's fancy and useless lamps.
Comes from: Nobody knows and he doesn't wants to speak about it.
Age: A little less than 200 years, but doesn't looks that old.
Skills: Besides his hidden powers, he has learned mechanics, and has a good sense of metalworking and metallurgy. Skilled on explosives, too.
Bot building:
Very enthusiastic in entering battle. Loves to see robotic destruction, but won't destroy an immobilized opponent. In the pits, repairs frenetically. Very talkative ("Yeeeah, I got him!") during the fight - if he loses, he's generally angry for a while. Drives and fights sometimes cleverly, sometimes brutally (especially if he loses his temper), that means that his bots are often significantly damaged as a result. VS and rammer specialist.
Social: (cons) Can be a real annoyance. Sarcastic. Cynic. Hasn't many friends. Generally reluctant on first contact with someone. Sometimes harsh in relationships.
(pros) Never gives up. Isn't really mean. A great friend, if you can manage to be his friend. Not a liar or deceiver, sometimes helps newbies, and will leave you in peace if you leave him in peace, unless when fighting.
Appearance: Human-like, but his skin is unusually red and scaly and he has several reptilian features like catlike eyes. Wears a long grey robe. Looks pretty strong. 1,80m for 100 kg.
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This is robot arena, not D&D.
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Name: Urjak
Character: Mutated Spider. Used to be a regular spider until it accidently fell into some nuclear waste. Gained super intelligence, great increase in size. Likes to now build robots with icreased intelligence.
Origions: No one knows, he doen't even know his own origins.
Age: 2 years old
Building Style and skills: With 6 extra limbs, builds very fast, likes Horizontal Spinners, average bot builder.
Size: 6 feet in Diamiter (spelled wrong)
Sociality: Likes being by his self, no one has ever seen him in person, as he controls his bots from dark corners where he cant be seen. He is considered a bad guy by most people, because he steals all the parts for his robots.
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Giga TOLD me i can. Naryar's basically a D&D character.
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Yes, That's what I was making fun of.
Is it too late to change bots?
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Very nice ideas everyone!, I just need three more people to register for the poll.
The spider and dragon/human will be especially fun to draw... Not that everyone's wont.
@ System32: no but you can only change your team ONCE by the end of sept. (I will put this up on the first page of the other thread as well). I also recommend it because i think i can't find your bots download.
I added to everyones 1st page status, on the other thread, the number of Team changes you have left (which should be only 1)... You CANNOT change an arena after you submit, so be careful as to what you make!
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Why cant everyone just be a normal human being.
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Because then there would be no variety.
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Then it would be no fun.
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The world could end.
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To be honest II, I do agree with you. But since I am doing a totally unique pack, I decided to let everyone make their characters anything they want (to some extent). I mean, what are the odds that you will fight against a giant mutant spider in Robot Arena 2?
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Update (finally): I will post pics of all of your characters either this week or the next. These pics are just SKETCHES and will be subject to change upon request. I am also adding yet another new option to the roster of characters: Voice type. Though there won't be much words for them to say. They will most likely be the voice of their own arena (replacing the announcer). this is so the character can give a little dialouge on his arena and i will do the audio for them (unless one wants to to the voice of his own character). this new feature will add even more flavor to my storyboard
Things you may request a change along these catagories:
-color of character/components
-gender
-hair style
-voice type
-depth (muscle? - slim? - obese?)
-clothing style and assesories
these catagories are FINAL and cannot be requested to be changed
-height (once you state your height, its final)
-personality/attitude
-bio (if i already received it, it will take too long to change!)
-morals
-values
also note that your character MUST have a weakness of some sort... I hate characters that can do anything. In reality, they are only botters. Just emphasizing this because i received a character with such attributes and I dont want the mod to become "distasteful".
Poll Update: 14/16 people submitted. Just need two more people to submit in the poll.
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I will review Naryar as a no-fantasy character. But still half-dragon. Because the wizard would be difficult... to role-play.
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Just so you know, my character's weakness is his lack of using wedges, which he considers an "unhonorable" tactic.
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My characters weakness is just like a normal spider, his bots have destructive weapons, but a very weak chassis if you get through them.
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Hmmm
Naryar builds somewhat unstable bots (I will send a very fast ram, a VS, and a SnS)
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My characters weakness is just like a normal spider, his bots have destructive weapons, but a very weak chassis if you get through them.
And they can't climb up the slippery side of a bathtub? I know what my bots are going to be now... :icon_tongue:
My weaknesses are... I dunno man, whatever you see fit. I'm not going to claim myself to be invincible because I know better, I'm very far from it.
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-color of character/components
Character is entirely bright red.
-gender
Male
-hair style
Bald (no body hair at all, being nearly a reptile)
-voice type
Deep, low-pitched, kind of low roar
-depth (muscle? - slim? - obese?)
Muscle. Innate, that said, dragon bloodline is muscular.
-clothing style and accessories
Wears heavy-fabric dark grey trousers, and these go up the waist and finish at the solar plexus level.
Wears a blood-red leather apron.
Most common headgear is his liked welder's mask.
Has a good bunch of accessories. Metalworking tools (hammer, pincers, hand drills, metal saw), a blowtorch, and several dangerous chemicals such as gunpowder (it can burn too) or even thermite. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite),
EDIT: sadly don't have the time to finish now, will finish it tomorrow, and I will finish the drawing too.
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And they can't climb up the slippery side of a bathtub? I know what my bots are going to be now... :icon_tongue:
My weaknesses are... I dunno man, whatever you see fit. I'm not going to claim myself to be invincible because I know better, I'm very far from it.
Crap.... the bots are screwed if they fight in the bathtub arena.
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@ Urjak: How tall is your spider character (rested and threatened stance)? Keep in mind that the max height is 6ft and minimum is 4ft. I already know that its 6ft in diameter, but I need to make a height comparison chart.
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@ Urjak: How tall is your spider character (rested and threatened stance)? Keep in mind that the max height is 6ft and minimum is 4ft. I already know that its 6ft in diameter, but I need to make a height comparison chart.
In his normal relaxed posture, he is 4 ft tall, but one threatened, he rears up his front legs 6 ft in the air.
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Ok, I will make him in his threatened stance. Comparrison chart will be in by the end of october.
UPDATE: I am in the process of drawing you guys... there is only 6 days left for everyone to enter their character.
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6 days left? Oh f...! I have to send the draw (actually make another because the first wasn't really great), all the bio and two bots to build...
hope my comp will be fixed then.
BTw Urjak, you choosed the spider species too?
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BTw Urjak, you choosed the spider species too?
Oh, crap your right. If Gigafrost has not already drawn my character I would like him to resemble a tarantula.
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@ Nar- I thought your character was a half dragon half boy???
@ Urjak- Yes, he will be a tarantula. Kind of like your avi in terms of color (unless you suggest another color(s))
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But he is a half dragon/half human! And "boy" not really, because he has something like 65 years, and is in his young adulthood actually (like 20 for an human). Half-dragons age slower than humans.
I have issues with my comp now, but I'll send all the bio and details about my character tomorrow.
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Thanks Gigafrost, you are free to do whatever you want with his color.
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Update: Be sure to read my other thread to see your status upon registration in the Character signup thread. All entries are due tomorrow!
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Ok everyone, the Character Signup thread is officially CLOSED! With only four vacant slots left, it isn't too much of a loss... Everyone must submit their stuff ASAP, so I can create the corresponding characters and start working on the pack.
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Giga, is it to late to ask If I can be pulled out?
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Why so? Just give me your stuff when you get the chance... But if it is too difficult for you, I will remove you from the pack.
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I gave you my stuff, it's crap.
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[banishment from LU] Well... If you insist. [/banishment from LU] Your bots weren't all that bad though, but oh well.
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Whats the E.T. on the drawings? Just wondering, no rush.
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The E.T.?
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Estimated time.
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Ah... You guys should see some of the drawing probably either this month or the next. But there is not an "official" time limit.
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Giga i know this isn't the thread, but could i send you a newer version of my MW and HW? Because they really suck.
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Yes. No need to ask, just submit your renovation. Remember that this will take your "1 change left" away
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UPDATE: I think I should let you all know... Since my grades arent too hot in my college life right now (An A, a B, a C, two Ds and Two Fs ), I have no other choice but to set Robot Arena 2 aside for a while and work on improving my grades (as an engineering major). This DOES NOT mean that I am cancelling ELBITE however, but it does mean that I may need to put this site on quarentine for a bit; or atleast until christmas break, when I have the time. You have my word on it that the Super Tournament WILL be started on schedule...
As promised, I will try to get to you the preview of the prizes and the arena ASAP, but don't expect me to be on these forums until December. I am too afraid on being on the college probation list and I have way too many family members counting on my success. I know this is a very personal request and situation but I beg of you guys to just bear with me until I get a hang of things in my personal life.
Of course, you can always contact me through my email (take out capitalized words): xjgoldNOSPAM@hotmail.com if you wish to send me a message or if you want to chat via MSN.
Farewell for now and good luck to all.
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Good luck with your grades. I will find a new AI mentor person.
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Wish you luck on improving your grades.