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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2017, 07:06:52 AM »
Well, mostly went away from the original idea. But still, it's a VS.



The AX-01 Titan (see what i did there?).

Ten milimeters of solid titanium for armoring the 'core' of this beast, but component armor (around three hundred kilos worth of steel and titanium!) makes it far from fragile. Designed as a 'tanky' VS.

Drive: two NPCs (normal)
Weapons: two 4x fire axe 'discs' on reinforced EL perm 80s
Armor: yes
Power: mini control unit and two 'long' batteries

Also, actually it's an IRL build. None of the components intersect, and where armor plates touch the motors or dig into the chassis, you could easily cut them to fit.

Made with looks in mind, but it's fairly effective as well.

EDIT: Waaaagh i screwed up. Not exactly an IRL build, forgot to add the bars which would support the motors. They were in the prototype though, imagine they are there ;)

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2017, 08:30:05 AM »
First of all, don't use Fire Axe heads because they do less possible damage compared to more powerful teeth like the steel teeth and the Typhoon Teeth; I try to avoid using the support perms for IRL bots because the weight is unnecessary because you can make your Robot lighter by using anchors and extenders to fake support the perm; also what batteries are you using I know you're saying the batteries long but what are the actual batteries, I keep thinking of either the blacks or the battle packs; and what's your Armour type by any chance (it might help if you post a screenshot of the insides).
I'm not the best person for advice, but I hope it does help.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2017, 08:37:06 AM »
I try to avoid using the support perms for IRL bots because the weight is unnecessary because you can make your Robot lighter by using anchors and extenders to fake support the perm

However, your axle will appear to be floating when that support is gone, and that is ew

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2017, 08:59:02 AM »
I try to avoid using the support perms for IRL bots because the weight is unnecessary because you can make your Robot lighter by using anchors and extenders to fake support the perm

However, your axle will appear to be floating when that support is gone, and that is ew
I didn't think this straight through about perms, sorry for any trouble caused with the advice.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #44 on: February 03, 2017, 09:46:41 AM »
Long batteries. Aka 'blacks'. Two of them. Battlepacks are battlepacks.
Can't send a pic of insides because of so much armor being slapped onto the bot that i would have to disassemble it. Can do but give me a hour or so ;)
Fire axes seem to be legit 'amount of firepower' for this bot, though sure i can try with the teeth. The catch with fire axes is that it now slightly resembles these concrete cutting blades. Why nobody added them to DSL? We only have sawblades.

...now on that topic, why do we only have saws and 'chewblades' (which are saws too)? Making concrete cutting and grinding discs/blades should be relatively simple.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #45 on: February 03, 2017, 03:00:50 PM »
...now on that topic, why do we only have saws and 'chewblades' (which are saws too)? Making concrete cutting and grinding discs/blades should be relatively simple.
They're also very ineffective IRL, you wouldn't usually see one on a combat robot. There is the Potter's Wheel grinding disc - it deals pretty mediocre damage but has great HP so it's good for a tanky robot.

I agree with the others: this bot would look better with Typhoon teeth or maybe the big ripping teeth, and would also do more damage. Your armour seems a little excessive too (which feels weird coming from a guy who also builds tanky bots...) You can definitely save a little weight on armour and beef up your weapons and supports more.

Finally, the wedges aren't very IRL. Try swapping them for some steel or titanium extender wedges (you can find them under beater bars in the Weapons tab). They'll look better, they jsut be just as effective, and they also deal a little damage at the same time.

Looks promising though! I'd like to see it upgraded.
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #46 on: February 03, 2017, 03:17:18 PM »
With CF you can layer saw blades on top of each other, and if you swap attachment point sides the teeth go in opposite directions and give a concrete saw look. Gets heavy though.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #47 on: February 04, 2017, 03:54:35 AM »
ALRIGHT, job for today is making the Titan II. Lemme see. Make it less bulky? Can do. Modified weapon? Sure. Bah, I might be even able to pack it under MW if i'll do it well.

...is the name Titan II taken?

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #48 on: February 10, 2017, 12:01:18 PM »
Nyaaaaah! Titan's blueprints lost due to virus randomly deleting my sh**, it's getting irritating. Anyway, made this little dustpan-esque wedge/VS/sawbot thing:




Fairly effective against rammers and spinning stuff but fails miserably against, well, everything else. Any idea on how i could improve the design?
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #49 on: February 10, 2017, 06:44:54 PM »
Nyaaaaah! Titan's blueprints lost due to virus randomly deleting my sh**, it's getting irritating. Anyway, made this little dustpan-esque wedge/VS/sawbot thing:

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Fairly effective against rammers and spinning stuff but fails miserably against, well, everything else. Any idea on how i could improve the design?
Armor is Titanium 5mm, and a ramplate for butt protection~
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I really like the look of this, though I recommend having some wheel guards, also moving the wheels further back so it can roll back over using the discs and I think the motors might need some protection. But overall it's a good concept just needs refining. Hope this helps  :smile:
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #50 on: February 10, 2017, 07:22:16 PM »
I don't think you need rear protection, you're not going to get attacked there (unless you're getting shoved into the sawblades in the tournament arena, and that shouldn't be happening either). I'd remove the ramplate and put a couple of wedges on the front, for getting under opponents. I agree with Hoppin about the motors as well, they need some kind of protection for this to be IRL.
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #51 on: February 11, 2017, 04:21:22 AM »
I could always go and turn on 'attachment point hermaphroditism' in RA2CF. That way I could attach stuff to the sides of motors for example, and make many more things possible, but I dunno if it's okay with ya guys.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #52 on: February 11, 2017, 05:23:51 AM »
I could always go and turn on 'attachment point hermaphroditism' in RA2CF. That way I could attach stuff to the sides of motors for example, and make many more things possible, but I dunno if it's okay with ya guys.
If it's for IRL building then it should be perfectly acceptable.
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #53 on: February 24, 2017, 08:47:16 AM »


ISN'T IT CUTE?!

(Plastic 3, two copals, two big ant wheels, smallest saw, a battlepack, right angle magmotor, extender anchor, 20cm aluminium extender, the big control board. That's everything. Makes for a fun-to-use BW sawbot at 124-ish kilos... was 125 limit for BW or 175?..)

EDIT: it's an antweight, playing on IF screwed the weightclasses up for me
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #54 on: February 24, 2017, 09:10:29 AM »
You built an AW: AW is 125kg, BW is 175.
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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #55 on: February 24, 2017, 09:10:50 AM »
HOLY sh** DRAE MADE TWO UPLOADS IN ONE DAY?

Yes.
This thing is so small that it havoks, i tried to get under the nonexistent 75kg weight class.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #56 on: February 24, 2017, 04:30:23 PM »
You could always give the robot more weapons and enter it into the Fleaweight class. Whatever that weight class looks like now.

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #57 on: February 25, 2017, 11:48:20 AM »




WARNING: THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EFFECTIVE

But it's pretty :3

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Re: Drae-chan's DSL Basement
« Reply #58 on: February 25, 2017, 12:46:54 PM »
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