Author Topic: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL  (Read 24696 times)

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2014, 05:19:00 PM »
Beater bars have the ability to stack end-to-end, making them functional extenders as well as effective weapons.

Wait, what?



Okay, that's amazing.  Here's the full bot.



Featuring titanium 3 armor and an awfully ridiculous set of wheelguards.  I had to use vlad wheels since it drove funny when I used hypnos, but overall it seems to be pretty alright.

Offline Lemonism

  • *
  • Posts: 666
  • Rep: 16
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2014, 05:45:29 PM »
The wheelguards are indeed ridiculous, I would ditch them and put your motors inside the chassis if I were you. You'll need to change the chassis shape a bit though. Also, use the blue control board rather than that one save weight.
Good space management in the chassis though. Once you've got rid of the wheelguards you'll probably have more weight for more beaters, especially if you keep the chassis that airtight when you put the motors inside it.
Edit:Grammar and spelling.
Download Mortis.py
Download some of my DSL2.2 Bots

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2014, 03:46:20 PM »
Tried to make something for Kurt's new tournament.  Ended up with this:



ehh

Offline Philippa

  • The Queen of GTM
  • Giga Heavyweight
  • Posts: 6186
  • Rep: 0
  • ✊ Viva la Standard! ✊
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2014, 05:24:37 PM »
Not bad, could be a lot worse.

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2014, 10:12:28 PM »
Moar robot:





No they don't look similar at all, what are you talking about.

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2014, 04:40:11 PM »
New robot:



DEATHHAWK!

Unfortunately, it's terrible.  Every time the weapon fires or it takes a turn, it flops over like an idiot.

Offline rnifnuf

  • Forum Linguist
  • Heavyweight
  • Posts: 434
  • Rep: 5
  • Proponent of competitive sonnet improvisation
    • View Profile
    • Awards
  • See profile for gamer tags: Yes
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2014, 08:17:23 PM »
That is far too tall and its center of gravity is too high (RA2 doesn't defy ALL of the laws of physics!). This is why, as you said:
it flops over like an idiot.
Shorten the bot by making the BSG's horizontal instead of vertical as well as making shorter extenders. Maybe shifting the BSGs farther forward would help with stability. You don't need titanium extenders on the BSGs; for supporting the bursts themselves, use Polycarbonate or Carbon Fiber.

Please show us the insides. This is a requirement for Standard showcase posts, at least in my opinion.
Follow me on Twitter? I'd like to see you try!

Stock Showcase     DSL Showcase     Ironforge Showcase

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #27 on: October 27, 2014, 04:03:28 PM »
Here ya go:



I reinforced the burst motors since I'd like to get this disaster into Kurt's tournament.  2 magmotor/hypno drive, steel 5 armor.

Offline Philippa

  • The Queen of GTM
  • Giga Heavyweight
  • Posts: 6186
  • Rep: 0
  • ✊ Viva la Standard! ✊
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #28 on: October 27, 2014, 04:20:22 PM »
I'd like to get this disaster into Kurt's tournament.
lolno

Robots for Fifteen To One are IRL style, meaning they must look as realistic as possible. The robot you've built would be entered into a DSL-S tournament.

Offline cephalopod

Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #29 on: October 27, 2014, 04:54:48 PM »
I'm guessing from the 'reinforcements' that it was an attempt at IRL... yeah it's not just about reinforcing things. Burst motors don't even exist IRL.
bristol bot builders / two headed death flamingo / snappy robots
//
kindest and friendliest '13, '15, '16, '17 / favourite staff member '14, '15

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #30 on: November 07, 2014, 08:34:28 PM »
Burst motors don't even exist IRL.

Really?  Well, now I feel quite the fool.

I'll stew on Deathhawk for a bit I guess.  Probably will scrap it.  Have this instead.



(I still have no idea what I'm doing.)

(Late reply is late.)

Offline Natster-104

  • Ultra Heavyweight
  • Posts: 1406
  • Rep: 6
    • http://www.youtube.com/ch
    • View Profile
    • Awards
  • Skype: natster-104
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2014, 01:40:46 AM »
(Image removed from quote.)
Could peeps have an outside shot as well

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2014, 10:05:36 AM »


It's not that impressive, just some random texture I stole off Google images.

On another note, have a spinny discy thing that I haven't skinned yet because ehh:


Offline Naryar

  • Posts: 23283
  • Rep: 21
  • hybrids oui oui
    • http://www.youtube.com/us
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
  • Skype: TheMightyNaryar
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2014, 11:59:32 AM »
you can simply attach these hammers directly to the baseplate by a multiextender

well, two multiextenders, but those ti extenders seem pointless.

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #34 on: February 07, 2015, 06:33:41 PM »
How do I robot:



(DSL Standard, by the way)

Offline The Ounce

  • *
  • Posts: 1256
  • Rep: 4
  • Up and about
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #35 on: February 07, 2015, 09:54:39 PM »
It seems underweaponed.  I would suggest downgrading to SlimBody motors and then shrinking the chassis.  That should give you enough weight for a few more weapons.
Tournament Record: 94 Wins - 50 Losses
Challenge Record: 2 Wins - 2 Losses


Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #36 on: February 07, 2015, 10:10:17 PM »
More weapons might have been a good idea.  Instead, I got bored and put fun colors on it:




Offline Naryar

  • Posts: 23283
  • Rep: 21
  • hybrids oui oui
    • http://www.youtube.com/us
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
  • Skype: TheMightyNaryar
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #37 on: February 08, 2015, 01:12:47 PM »
well of course it's dsl standard, who would mistake this bot as irl ?

anyways i'm being nitpicky, but you should just put the weapons on 2 skirt hinges, it will be a bit lighter and you will have no fragile extenders.

Also why it is called red shift ? Considering it is moving TOWARDS the enemy bot, the radiation emitted by it should be shorter, and by doppler effect it should be BLUE shift.

oooh son drunk science is the best

also try to put a blue control board on this, it's lighter. I believe you should be able to put Hypno wheels (more grip than your current wheels = more speed and acceleration) and be invertible.

Maaaybe you will need to change the chassis thgo

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #38 on: February 08, 2015, 01:20:24 PM »
Also why it is called red shift ? Considering it is moving TOWARDS the enemy bot, the radiation emitted by it should be shorter, and by doppler effect it should be BLUE shift.

It's called Red Shift because my friend is on a FIRST robotics team called Redshift and I thought it sounded cool.

EDIT:

Changed stuff:


« Last Edit: February 08, 2015, 06:37:27 PM by Thrackerzod »

Offline Thrackerzod

  • Sparkle up your day!
  • *
  • Posts: 2035
  • Rep: 10
  • The distant future... the year 2000...
  • Awards BOTM Winner
    • View Profile
    • Awards
Re: Thrackerzod is bad at DSL
« Reply #39 on: February 09, 2015, 04:38:10 PM »
I swapped out two of those extenders for aluminum ones because, hey, I had the weight.

And just for Naryar: