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« on: July 18, 2009, 12:56:44 AM »
I have a bot, similar to The Ounce's DSL hw HS, the one with the hammers. Excellent space managment, everything looks great. Problem is, when i hit another bot, it sets me off balance, and I do something akin to the Mauler Dance. Now, I know my issue is the lack of stabalizers on the side, like what The Ounce's hw hs has in its newer incarnations. I have the weight for a Ti Halfsheet to attack to the bottom of my bot, and the halfsheet even "jumps" onto the underside of my bot, like it wants to attach, but it stays red. no matter what I do, how i move or rotate it, it will not let me attach it. And yes, I have the right connection point selected..... Any idea whats wrong? It does this on every bot I build. I even made a giant box just to see if it was that I needed more space on the bottom... Still wouldnt work. How do I fix this? Anyone having a similar issue? Thanks.
Edit- Pulsar. Thats The Ounce's hw hs.
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« on: July 16, 2009, 04:43:38 PM »
That one of my absolute favorite aspects of DSL is that the grid line's up with my chassis. It's symetrical. Something that simple relieved around 1/2 of my stress with RA2. Thanks. Freaking thanks.
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« on: June 25, 2009, 12:50:48 AM »
Seems a lot of you dig horror, so I figured I would start this. Please limit yourselves to 3 pictures per post, with no double posting. I'll start us off.    Fairly mild, lets see what everone else has.
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« on: June 23, 2009, 12:47:21 AM »
I hear some have emailed Atari, asking for it to be released, but with no response. I was thinking, RA2 being a game that is realitivly unknown, and has a very small following, they may be more.... open to the idea of releasing it, if given a nudge. So, what if a huge amout of people (realitive to the game's following) send in emails, or called or made a petition? Maybe all 3. Is it a waste of time, or is it worth a shot? This site alone has over 3500 members, perhaps we could make a dent?
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« on: June 20, 2009, 03:14:19 AM »
Ok... This thing is making me crazy. Ive, rebuilt and redesigned my DSL HW flail shell spinner 6 times now. Different body sizes, different shell... Tankcats agod solution doesnt work, I've tried it on 3 seperate comuters... Is there anything- ANY way that this can be fixed? I can press pause before single player matches, but they dont stay together after that. I mean, there has to be a way, I see other flail shell spinners that work fine, Grog, Steel Meatball, and Iron Spaghetti to name a few. What was done to make them work? I want to put this in a tourny at some point, but I dont know what else to do. Thank you.
Edit- Perhaps I'm reading Tankcat's solutoin wrong. He cant remeber how to do it, and I cant figure it out. If anyone have gotten consistantly good results with it, please post what you are doing exactly.
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« on: June 19, 2009, 12:25:10 AM »
During the summer of 2003, events in the northeastern United States involving a strange, humanlike creature sparked brief local media interest before an apparent blackout was enacted. Little or no information was left intact, as most online and written accounts of the creature were mysteriously destroyed. Primarily focused in rural New York state, self proclaimed witnesses told stories of thier enounters with a creature of unkown origin. Emotions ranged from extremely traumatic levels of fright and discomfort, to an almost childlike sense of playfulness and curiosity. While their published versions are no longer on record, the memories remained powerful. Several of the involved parties began looking for answers that year.------- A Suicide Note: 1964 As I prepare to take my life, I feel it necessary to assuage any guilt or pain I have introduced through this act. It is not the fault of anyone other than him. For once I awoke and felt his presence. And once I awoke and saw his form. Once again I awoke and heard his voice, and looked into his eyes. I cannot sleep without fear of what I might next awake to experience. I cannot ever wake. Goodbye. Found in the same wooden box were two empty envelopes addressed to William and Rose, and one loose personal letter with no envelope. Dearest Linnie, I have prayed for you. He spoke your name. A Journal Entry (translated from Spanish): 1880 I have experience the greatest terror. I have experienced the greatest terror. I have experienced the greatest terror. I see his eyes when I close mine. They are hollow. Black. They saw me and pierced me. His wet hand. I will not sleep. His voice (unintelligible text). A Mariner's Log: 1691 He came to me in my sleep. From the foot of my bed I felt a sensation. He took everything. We must return to England. We shall not return here again at the request of the Rake.From a Witness: 2006------- Three years ago, I had just returned from a trip from Niagara Falls with my family for the 4th of July. We were all very exhausted after a long day of driving, so my husband and I put the kids right to bed and called it a night. At about 4am, I woke up thinking my husband had gotten up to use the restroom. I used the moment to steal back the sheets, only to wake him in the process. I appologized and told him I though he got out of bed. When he turned to face me, he gasped and pulled his feet up from the end of the bed so quickly his knee almost knocked me out of the bed. He then grabbed me and said nothing. After adjusting to the dark for a half second, I was able to see what caused the strange reaction. At the foot of the bed, sitting and facing away from us, there was what appeared to be a naked man, or a large hairless dog of some sort. It's body position was disturbing and unnatural, as if it had been hit by a car or something. For some reason, I was not instantly frightened by it, but more concerned as to its condition. At this point I was somewhat under the assumption that we were supposed to help him. My husband was peering over his arm and knee, tucked into the fetal position, occasionally glancing at me before returning to the creature. In a flurry of motion, the creature scrambled around the side of the bed, and then crawled quickly in a flailing sort of motion right along the bed until it was less than a foot from my husband's face. The creature was completely silent for about 30 seconds (or probably closer to 5, it just seemed like a while) just looking at my husband. The creature then placed its hand on his knee and ran into the hallway, leading to the kids' rooms.I screamed and ran for the lightswitch, planning to stop him before he hurt my children. When I got to the hallway, the light from the bedroom was enough to see it crouching and hunched over about 20 feet away. He turned around and looked directly at me, covered in blood. I flipped the switch on the wall and saw my daughter Clara. My husband drove his car into a lake that night, while rushing our daughter to the hospital. He did not survive. Being a small town, news got around pretty quickly. The police were helpful at first, and the local newspaper took a lot of interest as well. However, the story was never published and the local television news never followed up either. For several months, my son Justin and I stayed in a hotel near my parent's house. After we decided to return home, I began looking for answers myself. I eventually located a man in the next town over who had a similar story. We got in contact and began talking about our experiences. He knew of two other people in New York who had seen the creature we now referred to as the Rake. It took the four of us about two solid years of hunting on the internet and writing letters to come up with a small collection of what we believe to be accounts of the Rake. None of them gave any details, history or follow up. One journal had an entry involving the creature in its first 3 pages, and never mentioned it again. A ship's log explained nothing of the encounter, saying only that they were told to leave by the Rake. That was the last entry in the log. There were, however, many instances where the creature's visit was one of a series of visits with the same person. Multiple people also mentioned being spoken to, my daughter included. This led us to wonder if the Rake had visited any of us before our last encounter. I set up a digital recorder near my bed and left it running all night, every night, for two weeks. I would tediously scan through the sounds of me rolling around in my bed each day when I woke up. By the end of the second week, I was quite used to the occasional sound of sleep while blurring through the recording at 8 times the normal speed. (This still took almost an hour every day) On the first day of the third week, I thought I heard something different. What I found was a shrill voice. It was the Rake. I can't listen to it long enough to even begin to transcribe it. I haven't let anyone listen to it yet. All I know is that I've heard it before, and I now believe that it spoke when it was sitting in front of my husband. I don't remember hearing anything at the time, but for some reason, the voice on the recorder immediately brings me back to that moment. The thoughts that must have gone through my daughter's head make me very upset. I have not seen the Rake since he ruined my life, but I know that he has been in my room while I slept. I know and fear that one night I'll wake up to see him staring at me.  Rake playing with strawberries. This story was passed onto me. Take it as you will.  Ive excluded some of the more graphic parts. They were too much for me and I'm 18 and a horror fan, but it was just too much. Zdzislaw Beksinski <3
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« on: June 16, 2009, 02:00:53 AM »
I just downloaded DSL 2.1 about 2 hours ago, and have only made one bot so far. It's a HW flail shell spinner. Here are some pics. From above  An angled view.  12 spiked clubs, duel perm motor to spin the shell, 1mm Ti armor, 18 ant batts, NPC T64 motors for drive, micro wheels, weighing in at 798. Beat all the HW's Ive fought, including, WIIIDE LOAD, and Grog. I didnt have enough weight for a longer polycarb sheet to self right, but the short one keeps me from going completly flat. My main issue is that the little axle things that my clubs are attached to keep coming out of place.... Is there any way to fix this? Thanks.
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« on: June 15, 2009, 03:01:18 PM »
I would like to apologize for being an ass in HurricaneAndrew's showcase. Had a rough day, and let it get to me and I'm sorry. Especially to H.A. Also, if II and whoever else are still up for a bout, I think it would be a lot of fun, so pm me.
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« on: May 22, 2009, 03:17:52 PM »
May be a odd question, but whatever. I was curious as to what other HW popups are hitting for as far as points go in a single hit. My average is around 2000 and my highest was about 3900. I'm using my popup Serious Cat. If I fire my DDTs at just the right time, I can 1 hit kill any non SHW in the Starcore v3 pack that I've managed to get under. So, about 90% of them so far. Don't think I've tried them all though. Is that good for a HW popup? The points I mean. Thanks.
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« on: April 30, 2009, 09:00:30 PM »
I'm planning to make a HW rammer/ face spinner tonight. I notice on a lot of the ones in showcases, the hp ztek has 2 extender disks mounted on it, and twice the weapon possibilities. How is this done?
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« on: April 26, 2009, 09:45:41 PM »
Well, here is the next step in my popup building abiltiy.  Here is another view.  And one more.  As you can see this one is tighter, has a 4HPZ drive instead of 2, and has 4 razors tips per arm for a total of 16, instead of my original 8. My soul gripe is that i cannot fit red battery in there, and it doesnt seem to want to stack into a black. The 2 blacks were hard enough to fit it. What do you guys think?
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« on: April 25, 2009, 10:29:03 PM »
Well, I tried to download and install the 1.3 patch and I thought I did everything right, but instead when I tried to get back on my game, it gave me a grey screen and I had to reinstall. I searched around a bit and could not quite figure out how to install this this properly... So how do I do it without jacking up my game??? Thanks
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« on: April 25, 2009, 07:33:26 PM »
About 2/3 of the time I try to join an online multiplayer game, this pops up, and I can't join. Any clue how to fix it or what I can do? Thanks.
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« on: April 23, 2009, 02:32:52 PM »
I know most of you hate multiplayer due to the lagg, but I also know that some of the new people will nice bots are willing to bear it for a good match. If any of the members here would like to have a good online match, just let me know and I'd be glad to set it up. NOTE--- For some reason (I think its the effeing glitch for some reason) my main bot slows down arena loading so it can take up to 4 minutes or so. No DSL bots please.
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« on: April 22, 2009, 03:05:23 PM »
Well basically, I have no clue about what else to do. I want to have some good challenging fights, but that just isnt happening. I've tried all I can think of. I tried to join the old Hamachi RA2 servers but they were all full. I made my own but basically no one joined. I'm tired of looking for good fights in multiplayer, and only finding noobs with what basically amounts to Walrus with shiney hubs and a new paint job with flames on it. I havent been beat online since I really got back into this game more than a month ago with the exception of when a member used SHW Alligator against me. I've played all the starcore v3 heavyweights and I can beat 9 out of 10 of them. Even the good ones. Neglected Waterbug, Little Darling, Rabid Pit Bull. Borg Queen, Clockwork Hydra...... I really wanted to join that new Hamachi server that was made and requires a pm for the password, but being a realitive noob, I'm highly doubtful I'd be allowed in. I remember when Emergency was hard. Now I can destroy it in 11 seconds..... Any advice or something. Anyone else have this issue? Thanks.
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« on: April 21, 2009, 08:59:12 PM »
As instructed, I will be only posting my bots in here from now on, haha. Here is what I believe to be the final version of my popup, Serious Cat. Here it is from the outside.  Here are the guts.   It's tighter than my previous 2 designs, has 3 black batteries, 4 razors per arm hidden in the chassis for a total of 16. 4 hp ztecs which i got as close together as I could using axle loading, 4 DDTs, DSA armor, 2 burst mounted small wedges, for a total weight of 799. The whole thing at 6 pixles high. This is my 3rd popup.
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« on: April 16, 2009, 02:00:14 PM »
To mount the weapons on, is it better to use a longer extender as opposed to a shorter one? I was thinking, and a weapon at the end of a longer extender, if the motor is spinning at a constant velocity, would pack more punch, than one at the end of a shorter one. Thing is, I'm not sure if the game understands this concept, and I'm not sure if it applies it... It wouldn't be too much of a jump, I'm trying to decide between 40cm and 60cm extenders. What does everyone think?
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« on: April 14, 2009, 01:12:22 AM »
I don't know if this has been found or not but apparently there is an issue with being unable to balance maces if the were placed using the effe glitch. Well I was suffering with the same problem with my 27 irons hs, so I found a great solution. I used an extender setup where I had a 20cm extender like pointed towards the floor at the end of a 40cm extender. I think absolute chaos has the same setup. Anyways, I couldn't get my maces to balance after mounting them using the effe glitch. So, I deleted all of my maces, and replaced them with iron spikes which weigh the same (10kg) as the maces. Since the iron spikes have a smaller diameter, they didnt require the effe glitch to mount, just some careful turning. Once my bot had the 27 iron spikes, I would adjust my burst motors so that my 3 motors were almost perfectly inside of eachother and everything was balanced right. THEN, and this is the important part.... I deleted all the iron spikes on the end of one of my 9 arms and used the effe glitch to replace them with maces. Delete the 3 iron spikes at the end of one arm and use effeing to add 3 maces to where they were. Delete, add, delete add. Repeat this until all of the iron spikes have been replaced with maces. At the end, the maces mounted using the effing glitch will be just as balanced as the iron spikes were. AND, if you hit f12, all of the maces are lined up and where you want them to be. I hope this helps some people out....... Just make sure to balance you iron spikes while they are spinning slowly in the first place.   As you can see, I have some empty space, sorry about that. At some point I'll rebuild it with a smaller body. I beat little darling, rabid pitbull, borg queen, and neglected waterbug without too much trouble. Its a great stock bot. I have 3 burst mounted hp zteks that all line up almost perfectly, and its stays that balanced when it spins up.
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« on: April 03, 2009, 05:44:24 PM »
I made a new server because the others were either full or people were rarely on. I prefer people to fight with stock bots, but whatever is cool I guess.
name--- RA2stock
password--- thecakeisalie
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« on: April 01, 2009, 01:23:47 PM »
N.o, this is n.ot asking where is everyone is, and yes, I do have Hamach.ie. (Although all the RA2 networks I come by seem to be full...) While basic multiplayer is pretty much dead, there are still quite a few people who get on and enjoy it. Including me. Thing is, so far I have only managed to join 1 game, out of around 20 attempts. What happenes most of the time is it says "incompatible program versions," it starts counting down from 10 and it gets to one and nothing happens, or it starts counting down from 10 gets to around 4 and then the countdown vanishes and nothing happens. I have the downloaded version of this game, and i have downloaded the 1.3 patch already. Any clue how to fix this problem, or why its doing this? Thanks.
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