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« on: September 16, 2008, 06:58:12 PM »
Hey, I\'ve hade DSL for ~ 1 month and here are some bots I\'ve come up with.
Comments & Criticism are welcome. =)

Well, first is one of my best heavies, Mutant Dragonfly 2.



3mm steel,
2 orange and 1 ant batt (I had like 7 kgs and needed to do somthing),
4 fast npc t64s,
2 70 kg hammers on pistons.

Here\'s a pic of it in battle vs. Smashbox 2.


Thanks for looking, I\'ll be adding pictures on and off. =)
EDIT: Looks like I\'m going to enter a slightly updated M.D.3 in RAW!
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2008, 07:37:19 PM »
wow. great start. you get the simplistic=better in DSL. looking forward to more.
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2008, 07:41:08 PM »
No lie, That is the BEST first bot I have ever seen anyone make as long as I have been here. (which isn't really that long)

I am guessing that it is Mutant Dragonfly 1 in the pic?
I built that big robot on that TV show that time


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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2008, 02:04:59 AM »
Really nice for a first bot. Few empty space, that's good.

What are the skirts on axles for, besides sticking to the name?

EDIT: if you find a good upgrade (perhaps like putting a front wedge, and titanium is more efficient than steel) you could enter Mutant Dragonfly 3 in RAW.

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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2008, 08:36:12 AM »
Naryar: The skirts don't do a lot, but they can sort of hang up flippers if i'm lucky. (Not that it really matters, i'm invertible.) Yeah, I'll try to add titanium armor & a wedge on da front.
Somebody: Yeah, that's Dragonfly 1 in the pic, the wings act as stabalizers so I wont get flipped. I took them out later when I realized it could go upside down.
I'll probably be adding another bot later today, just need to think of one.
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2008, 08:49:59 AM »
Use wedges (skirts on hinges) if you want some protection against flippers.

But this is a poker (piston bot), and the main issue is if you fire your pistons, they can flip the hammers, and your bot too.

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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2008, 11:33:45 AM »
Thanks for your advice, everyone!
Next up is Gravity 2, a somewhat decent MW flipper.

2 fast npc t64s,
1 small black battery thing & 2 battlepacks (stacked),
2 small JX bursts w/ vladiator spikes,
3mm aluminum.

The thing's VERY fast, and usually when I fire the weapon while driving, it puts me on my back. It's also a good pushybot, so sometimes I just ram them with the spikes.

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Here's a bot my Mom made!

"Typhoon Mama."
It actually does quite well on destructive capabilities, but is a little slow and can't right itself.
2 tmw3r drive,
4 battlepacks and 4 ant packs,
Dual perm gearbox with 150cm shell with 12 ripping teeth,
3mm steel, I think.

Post away!
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2008, 12:23:24 PM »
Hey, your mom's pretty good, LOL!

Tell her she can put a blue control board on this, then swap the ant batts for a battlepack, and then it will weight 799kg.

AAH and 3mm steel is enormous on a shell spinner! I think that 1mm titanium is enough, and with the weight gained she could put several Titanium half-plates on the bot's belly plate.

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For your flipper i think it's slightly underpowered. And it has the drive train of a rammer !

Some empty space behind the NPC fasts.

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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2008, 12:36:19 PM »
Hey guys, It'll be a while before I can post some more bots, My DSL just crashed, but I've saved all my bots, so i'll just reinstall it. Maybe a day or two.
EDIT:Naryar, is my flipper underpowered because I'm not using strong enough bursts, or because I have too few batteries? ('Cause if it's the bursts, I'm going to have a hard time cramming any more motors in there, unless you have any sugestions, the bot's tiny.)
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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2008, 12:58:54 PM »
Not enough batteries... The motors have electricity input in their description "it draws X amps" or "it needs X amps for maximum power", and the batteries have electricity output "it will give 10 amps". Here if i count well, your output is inferior to your input.

In a general rule, total input (sum of all of your motor's input) must be equal at total output (sum of all of your batts input), excepted for the Dual Perm that doesn't needs as much amps as said, but something like 100 amps.

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« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2008, 01:06:34 PM »
Yeah, I knew about the amp ratings already, but I'm almost over the weight limit, where should I put the batts? I Thought about changing the armor to somthing lighter, but then I remembered I only have 3mm Aluminum. (Sorry, I put 3mm titanium on the stats =( ) It actually doesn't flip too bad, I ram more than flip. =J
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2008, 02:01:21 PM »
I dont know about the efficacy of your bot "Mutant Dragonfly 2", but is very cool looking too. I like the design/skin part of it. The art of "outside look". I like it.

P.S. : I very rare make such compliments about how some bot "looks", so... It must be "big deal" and true... Plus, im hosting bot design contest ;)

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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2008, 02:25:26 PM »
Thanks, Venko! Maybe I'll enter.

Well, I sorta got my DSL running again, so here's a new bot!

The succsesor to Mutant Dragonfly: Radioactive Gnat.




2 fast npc t64s (I love those things),
3 battlepacks & 2 small co2 tanks,
Storm piston with 70 kg hammer on the end,
3mm steel & 1 titanium half-plate.

It's pretty fast, I usually just ram them and fire the storm, & it's fairly effective.
I can also use it as a thwack bot, spin up & fire the hammer.
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2008, 03:06:04 PM »
Ha! Now it's overpowered!

Two battlepacks are largely enough.

And I don't think you need that much armor...

EDIT: You just made me want to build a DSL poker/rammer hybrid (like this one)

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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2008, 03:49:43 PM »
Yeah, it was too heavy for a lightweight, so I cramed a bunch of junk in there I didn't need, just to take up space. :evilsmile: Bwaahahaha...

A bot I built in about 5 min., Endentured Slave:




Fast npc t64 drive AGAIN!,
2 pcdqwhatever orange batts & 2 battlepacks,
Etek with about 13.2 million weapons on the end,
3mm steel or Titanium.

I know it looks a whole lot like Barbie's Onyx II, but I didn't intentionally Model this after that. The thingy on the back is the srimech, if it's flipped, the only other stable position is on it's side, then I fire the bursts and it rights itself. (I mainly designed the bot to see if the srimech would work, and it did.)
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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2008, 05:14:14 AM »
*looks at bot, faints, gets up, goes back to the computer and types*

That bot is great, again! Great Idea with the snappers.
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« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2008, 06:33:07 AM »
You should have those things counter-rotating. That's probably not easy to do but if you could it would be RIDICULOUSLY powerful.
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« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2008, 07:15:27 AM »
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You should have those things counter-rotating. That's probably not easy to do but if you could it would be RIDICULOUSLY powerful.

You can only if you chain motors. That is, you put a motor on the center of the black disc that is directly attached to the E-tek, but the motor must be MORE powerful than the E-Tek, and then you attach the smaller white disc on the motor added. So, the second motor is sandwiched between the two discs.

Then you wire the Etek to spin in one direction (eg. clockwise) and the other motor to spin in the opposite direction (counterclockwise then).

Normally the disc would be counter-rotating but it's not worthwhile because the two motors oppose and you lose power, and energy, and weight.

And IMO the dual FS (Shebeast) is better than the unique giant FS.

It's cool-looking, but not realistic, either... but it's your choice. Personally I'm usually following the realism rule in DSL now.

(EDIT: Usually because of the stacked batts in the beetle hammer in my showcase)

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« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2008, 08:44:16 AM »
Agree with Naryar.

I'd like to see some shots of it in action, Reier, ES looks awesome. You've gotten the hang of DSL very quickly I don't think I've built a bot that cool in 5 minutes.
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« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2008, 10:14:26 AM »
Sure, I'll get some battleshots in a sec...

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I've also got some shots of MD3 slaughtering Wiide Load & Eye stabber. =)
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