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« on: March 03, 2013, 02:21:22 PM »
Damnit, AS...
1603
« on: March 03, 2013, 01:33:15 PM »
Can we send multiple songs?
1604
« on: March 02, 2013, 11:18:20 AM »
Merry Christmas, Badnik. 
1605
« on: March 02, 2013, 12:17:02 AM »
Maybe if you started with stock, then you would have some sort of clue to what to do in DSL. You aren't near the skill level yet where you can afford to be wasting your time fiddling in DSL.
He's actually a pretty decent IRL builder. IRL realism has become accepted now. I don't waste my time with it, but there are a few builders around that push out some pretty interesting stuff.
Honestly, IRL is the only "realism" left in DSL. Standard DSL should just allow stacking already and call it a day.
And, since the criteria for IRL is generally more along the lines of "make it look as much like a real robot as possible," Sylandro is indeed actually pretty good.
IRL is like wrestling, while DSL standard is actual martial arts.
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
I disagree with the wrestling one; they're both martial arts, it's just IRL is like spiritual ascetic martial arts (Shaolin monks and such) and standard is more of a MMA Fight Technique type martial arts.
Both look spectacular in their own ways.
That does make more sense.
1606
« on: March 01, 2013, 09:20:35 AM »
mfw I get DiRT Showdown (60$) for free from Giygas 
That reminds me... I have a Steam code for DiRT 3, if anyone wants it. My mom bought a new computer and it came with it so she gave it to me, but my machine won't run it.
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« on: March 01, 2013, 09:07:46 AM »
Maybe if you started with stock, then you would have some sort of clue to what to do in DSL. You aren't near the skill level yet where you can afford to be wasting your time fiddling in DSL.
He's actually a pretty decent IRL builder. IRL realism has become accepted now. I don't waste my time with it, but there are a few builders around that push out some pretty interesting stuff.
Honestly, IRL is the only "realism" left in DSL. Standard DSL should just allow stacking already and call it a day.
And, since the criteria for IRL is generally more along the lines of "make it look as much like a real robot as possible," Sylandro is indeed actually pretty good.
IRL is like wrestling, while DSL standard is actual martial arts.
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
1608
« on: February 28, 2013, 02:47:08 PM »
I believe the other thing is if lots of spinners are allowed in more events, more bots will be destroyed, and with teams having much less money and just doing it as a hobby, repairing seems unlikely.
Exactly
Just to put it into perspective, this has been our calendar of weekends for February to April:
Telford
Barnsley
Whitwick
Weekend off
Portsmouth
York
Weekend off
Gadget Show Live (UK Champs)
Colchester
Weekend off
Burgess Hill
We don't have enough time between events to be fixing robots due to spinners, or the money considering how many events there are (and therefore the amount of repairs required). For us to have spinners back, the whole format and style of events would have to change, and this has not happened. This is simply rebranding, nothing more.
For example, the whole reason the Americans still have spinners is because there are only 2 or 3 heavyweight events per year. In the UK we're likely to have around 20 events this year. Hence you can probably see from the roboteers' perspective that we prefer lots of events without spinners!
Not forgetting to upgrade one of the current heavyweight arenas to class 1 it would cost around £30,000, which the event orgranisers cannot afford.
The last reason is that we don't need spinners. The shows are now selling out pretty consistently. And that doesn't mean there is no damage anymore. To the audience Thor is pretty spectacular, and I think Tiberius causes enough damage for the shows!
Have you thought about doing a Kickstarter? I don't know what kinds of projects you're hoping to get done, but there's got to be something big that you could ask people to fund, maybe that 30k pound arena upgrade? You could use the unsold Robots Extreme Wars merch as donor prizes. (I'm assuming you work with the organizers, right?)
Even if we were able to have spinners, it would still be a bad idea. Due to the situation we are in repairing after each event would be impossible, in terms of both time and cost. Eruption will have to do 7 events (around 40 fights), without any repairs whatsoever.
And we don't work with the event organisers, but we're one of the 'higher up' roboteers that go to all the events, know all the secret stuff they're doing, help them to run some of the smaller events when not many people are there and sometimes suggest stuff to them and are sometimes consulted about stuff. We don't really work with them, more help them sometimes. We knew about the negotiations with Robot Wars ages ago, and one other thing that's still a pretty big secret :P
tl;dr "My robot can't handle spinners, therefore allowing any spinners is a bad idea."
1609
« on: February 28, 2013, 09:00:05 AM »
My laptop died .... I lost everything on it!!!!
Had to go to wally world way the hell down here in south Texas in a small town where they close at night.
ONLY one they had with windoze 7 was an HP
Got to work, opened the box ...... IT IS WHITE WITH ****ING BUTTERFLIES ON IT !!!!!!!!!
I AM BUMMMMMMED!!!!!!
Krylon makeover.
rhino liner
That would be ****ing awesome.
1610
« on: February 28, 2013, 08:57:04 AM »
I am seriously debating on getting this...
What options do you have as far as your car setups? Can you alter gear ratios? Adjust suspension stiffness and travel? Change tire pressures? Adjust the vehicle's weight distribution?
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« on: February 27, 2013, 07:43:54 PM »
holy crap
I can't get a single positive comment can I? You guys are against me and my building style or something I swear.
IT'S A CONSPIRACY. But really... There's not much to be said.
1612
« on: February 27, 2013, 07:37:47 PM »
I should totally get this game and beat all your asses.
1613
« on: February 27, 2013, 07:26:54 PM »
My laptop died .... I lost everything on it!!!!
Had to go to wally world way the hell down here in south Texas in a small town where they close at night.
ONLY one they had with windoze 7 was an HP
Got to work, opened the box ...... IT IS WHITE WITH ****ING BUTTERFLIES ON IT !!!!!!!!!
I AM BUMMMMMMED!!!!!!
Krylon makeover.
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« on: February 27, 2013, 09:18:03 AM »
You think it would make it more interesting if they had some sort of spending limit while building the bot? You wouldn't have all of these $10,000+ designs for builders to compete with. If they do that, they could also film the building of the bots and make a show out of that.
1615
« on: February 26, 2013, 12:38:55 PM »
Hate to tell you, Noodle, but Jonzu gets around the track a lot smoother.
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« on: February 25, 2013, 09:03:28 PM »
1617
« on: February 25, 2013, 01:00:55 PM »
hecko is my lw any good? or just to lousy for a comment. on pg 1
If you would post them in the thread like everyone else does rather than putting it in the first post, people might actually comment on it. I don't think anyone knew that you had done that.
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« on: February 25, 2013, 12:58:40 PM »
I didn't think it was worth 450 pounds to expedite the process
Aren't you American?
1619
« on: February 25, 2013, 09:27:22 AM »
Still can't see on the computer. I can on mobile.
That's odd. I can't see ACAMS' pictures on mobile, but can on my computer.
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« on: February 24, 2013, 05:11:02 PM »
Then why is the host forced to show his entry when countering is so hard? I mean damn if you all want to be paranoid about the host cheating just think:
1. He could rig the brackets and give himself the best draw.
2. He could keep recording the matches until he wins.
With the above points I say all tournament hosts should be banned from entering their own tournaments.
He could... As long as the bots were close enough in a competitive sense. You can't have a HW popup with two razors and make it look like it beat a 36HS...
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