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General Support / What is the difference between "IRL" and "Standard" robot, etc?

« on: August 06, 2015, 11:27:26 PM »

Hi guys, just wondering if you could inform this newbie what an IRL robot is (I know it stands for 'in real life'), and how it differs from a "standard" robot, or other categories of robot building? I want to make an IRL robot in ironforge but I have no idea how to start until I know exactly what it entails.

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Ironforge TC Showcases / Hero Of War's IronForge Showcase!

« on: August 02, 2015, 09:30:21 AM »

Hey guys! Well after months of DSL building, I discovered Ironforge and am loving it! While I am still getting to grips with it, I have managed to build a robot capable of putting up a decent fight against most any of the heavyweight AI robots. So, after two failures of robots, here is Reaper Evolution!



The armour is 10mm Steel, the strongest available.

Note that the weight includes 250 kg of red Ballasts, 200 kg of which is free of course. So this is effectively 593.1 kg , making it a SHW, not an UHW.

Additional screenshots, showing the weapon and armour plate locations and the internal components:








(Showing the location of the five ballasts, needed to counterweight the robot thanks to the rather heavy rotational weapon.)

Any suggestions for improvements? It seems to work well enough for most fights and runs pretty fast, but even with 250 kg of ballasts and a flipper on the back end, the robot is not stable enough for the wedge / flipper to be particularly useful, so robots that need to be flipped to be beaten reliably - such as shell spinners and tribar spinners - are a pain to fight. I don't want to edit the robot too heavily, I just want the back wedge stabilized and running flush to the ground.