Author Topic: RammingSpeed's Showcase-age (Read 25081 times)

RammingSpeed · « **on:** February 16, 2012, 10:34:22 AM »

Liparus.

Armour: 5mm steel
Flags are just for lulz.

Tell me if there's anything that can be improved on.

GroudonRobotWars · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2012, 10:40:16 AM »

Needs moar razors if it is a popup.

Also use metal hinges for wedges

You probably don't need the flags

And build to the weight limit

ty4er · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2012, 10:43:02 AM »

go with 5mm plastic, techno wheels on npc fasts, replace the snapper wedges with metal hinges, replace the mag snapper with a bsg and put loads more weapons on. and replace the baseplate anchors with multiextenders if you really want the bits sticking out the side and top. i'd get rid of them though. and replace the battlepacks with 8 ant batteries and get a skirt hinge and put a titanium sheet (from the extras) onto there so it covers the front. and maybe put some halfsheets on the bottom.

and hi :P

Naryar · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2012, 10:44:34 AM »

Yes, quite obviously this is a popup.

It needs more drive, more razors, more weapon motors, no static weapons (unless you intend to make it a popup with a static weapon rack), a fitting battery setup...

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:17:10 PM »

Any better?

I kept the snapper wedges, as they can usually get under anything on DSL and the panels, because they're there to give the wheels protection.
Just so you know, the razors are on large beater bars (is that a good choice?).

Also Nar, could explain what you meant by fitting battery setup? Do I need to add more or take some away?

Naryar · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:32:38 PM »

Count the amps your motors drain (it's in their description), that sum must be equal to what your batteries can output, excepted that all spin motors only need 10 amps, aka one ant battery.

COOLRUNNER87 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:33:23 PM »

By a fitting battery setup, he means to put in the right amount of batteries for the robot's power consumption.

At current state, you have 6 BattlePacks, which is equivalent to 15 ant batteries (the small orange ones). With your setup, you only need a minimum of 7 batteries: 1 for each drive motor and 2.5 for each BSG. This will give it enough power to go for the full 3 minute fight, though you may be a touch low on power towards the end. For that, you should probably have somewhere around 8 or 9 ant batteries in the robot.

Those numbers above, of course, are dependent on using your BSG's as flippers or not.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:36:19 PM »

Yeah, the BSGs are used for self-righting.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:39:15 PM »

Quote from: COOLRUNNER87 on February 16, 2012, 02:33:23 PM

By a fitting battery setup, he means to put in the right amount of batteries for the robot's power consumption.

At current state, you have 6 BattlePacks, which is equivalent to 15 ant batteries (the small orange ones). With your setup, you only need a minimum of 7 batteries: 1 for each drive motor and 2.5 for each BSG. This will give it enough power to go for the full 3 minute fight, though you may be a touch low on power towards the end. For that, you should probably have somewhere around 8 or 9 ant batteries in the robot.

Those numbers above, of course, are dependent on using your BSG's as flippers or not.

You forgot to count the mags.

COOLRUNNER87 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 16, 2012, 02:43:51 PM »

...wait a minute. Just noticed like a moron that you also have 2 Mag Snappers on there. Each Mag uses 4.5 batteries worth of power, which means in total you need 16 ant batteries to fully power the robot.

However, those Mag snappers are the single worst burst motor in the game. The battery consumption coupled with lack of power versus the BSG's essentially cripples it. You should downgrade those Mags to BSG's.

EDIT: I realized that, S_M. I don't know what I was looking at.

Naryar · « **Reply #10 on:** February 16, 2012, 03:07:01 PM »

Change Mag Snappers to BSG's, add moar razors and moar BSG's.

Interesting weapon setup you have here. I believe you just innovated in DSL popup weapon setups.

Quote from: COOLRUNNER87 on February 16, 2012, 02:33:23 PM

you have 6 BattlePacks, which is equivalent to 15 ant batteries (the small orange ones).

no actually 6 battlepacks are equivalent to nearly 17 ant batteries in power output.

And Ram, you need 16 ant batts currently to power your bot fully. But with 4 BSG's and 2WD, you would be able to go with 10-12.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #11 on:** February 16, 2012, 03:23:59 PM »

What has changed:

I put two more halfsheets on the underbelly, edited the power setup so it was 3 amps off, put the popups closer together and replaced the mags for BSGs. Oh and I replaced the polycarb extenders for the wheelguards with titanium ones. How could I forget.

And why thank you, Naryar.

Mr. AS · « **Reply #12 on:** February 16, 2012, 03:25:56 PM »

can you crop your pics please, we know what the botlab looks like :P

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #13 on:** February 16, 2012, 03:30:15 PM »

Ok, will do from now on.

Naryar · « **Reply #14 on:** February 16, 2012, 05:37:51 PM »

Now you need more weapons, less empty space in your chassis and frontal armor (try 30kg titanium sheets on skirt hinges).

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #15 on:** February 17, 2012, 05:27:57 AM »

Gave him some frontal armour, swapped the side razors for irons and downgraded the armour to 5mm titanium.

Naryar · « **Reply #16 on:** February 17, 2012, 09:20:32 AM »

^^Cropping : doing it wrong. Don't enlarge your pics in paint. Make them as small as possible while still having all the useful information.

I would also put the razors closest to the ground as possible so they have more swing, and therefore more damage.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #17 on:** February 17, 2012, 11:17:21 AM »

That better Nar?

(nothing was changed on the actual bot, btw.)

Naryar · « **Reply #18 on:** February 17, 2012, 02:00:16 PM »

MassimoV · « **Reply #19 on:** February 17, 2012, 04:10:59 PM »

Chassis sames too large. You also need alot more weapons.