When you say 'no entry limitations', does that mean send any number of bots, or anyone can join?And yeah, definitely have two leagues. Unrealistic and realistic
I think prizes is a way to gain outsiders/people who don't know about the forum. Y'know, people love prizes... especially when all they'd have to do is build something on a free game and/or free mod of a free game
I think SM is a pretty cool guy, eh builds unicycle-bots and doesn't afraid of anything
As for the prizes, I really don't want to repeat myself from the GTM is reclining thread or be that guy that's like "no, because I say so", but I really wouldn't want to have them. Stacked Supervolts, Nifties with a CB space are all things which should've been part of a tournament mod, Double Strenght Extenders would give a advantage to the other people, and even if the stuff is just visual, I wouldn't be a fan of it, neither do I like the forum user title. care to say why you wouldnt like any forum titles or visual stuff? those other prizes have already been done a while back and nobody made a huge fuss over it. stacking is something everyone can do, it just makes the game a lot more enjoyable for that person. personally i think it's a good idea, though maybe a new component such as a wheel with some personalised fancy stuff on it for the top few would be cool.This all just encourages winning more, and roboteering isn't about winning, it's about having fun, you'll just have the same designs over and over again with people that want to win doing most efficient bots. 1. thats what irl building is for, cool looking designs often dont work anywhere near as well as the tried and tested ones. 2. why dont you want to encourage winning? its a tournament, i dont see a way of having any more fun other than driving the bots yourselves, if there were all cool looking designs but the fights are awful then where's the fun in that? 3. this game and its metagames are very very old now, and at this moment there isn't a clear 'best bot type' other than flail rammers cough, so there's clearly not a lack of different designs in those old games, let alone this brand new mod. 4. it's basically a brand new metagame, there's going to be a lot of different designs and idk about you but i'd very much like a tournament to see who's design is the most efficient, that's what i feel most of us enjoyed back in the 2.1 days. People won't go out for creativity if they want to win so badly, they will take what already works and as such you will see SnS, HS and Popups again with everyone complaining about Popups again(while the problem itself is more wedgebots, because of how the AI works, all that matters is a good wedge to get under your opponent and then you've basically won already, Drums, jugglers and most piston wedges are the same thing in the end, they're all gutrippers who hit the underside of your bot), that's also why I find ranked RA2 bad. what. there are a lot of designs that counter wedges pretty well, of course those are the same sort of bot because they all have the same purpose, just different weapons.Mr As' mod is new, but that doesn't mean that old already working desings won't work here, and why would someone that wants to win mess around with a new bot design when you know that certain designs will always work? It's just a temporary solution instead of encouraging creativity and fair bot designs. see: botmWe aren't little kids anymore that need to be lured with winning prizes, you already win the tournament and I think having that mentioned in the wiki(similar to how all BBEANS entries and rounds are written) should be more than enough. i really dont think the wiki will be a good place to hold it alone, such a big tournament deserves some space on the actual forum. im pretty sure you wouldnt lose any people wanting to enter if there weren't any prizes or mentions anywhere, it's just a good idea to encourage some more competition and make it feel more 'official' (sorry yugi)The AI Pack falls into a similar situation like the stacked batteries, I've been thinking on how it would be if the tournament bots got released to everyone, it would allow you to see what went wrong, how a bot is built and how stuff works, you could even redo matches to see how close your victory/loss was.Personally, I find yearly too long, but doing it in a short time can easily lead to it being too much of a haste to host. i feel that any shorter and it wouldn't feel as important or big, for example compare the battlebots tournaments to bbeans and clash cubes.
is this bot don't lost all razors in a fight before do a damage thought
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I'm fine with hugging reier
Mr As' mod is new, but that doesn't mean that old already working desings won't work here
For once the mods did something right