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The "Sub-par DSL" mentality of yesteryear is not the driving force behind people playing IRL. RA2 players gravitate to what is comfortable and relatable, and that is rarely the veterans' brand of RA2.

When a lurker is from early 2007 and they see some robot from "Luigica" that has a simple yet interesting setup, the lurker's mind starts thinking. Ideas like "Can I build that?" or, "I've seen other parts, can I mix and match them?" go through the lurker's head, and they are now interested in vanilla RA2. The lurker downloads a video file of a competitive match and goes, "Wow! That robot got pwnd, Mako is cool." and they're now interested in DSL-S.

But today is not 2007. It's harder to go from "Big robot combat fan" to "RA2 fan." The standard has slowly gone up, the complexity for those who don't cheat has slowly gone up. In addition, resources to learn about RA2's mechanics or its history are weak, causing more of a disconnect between old and new. Naturally, after these people declare Stock and DSL-S, "confusing hogwash," these people will start to use IRL as a competitive meta.

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Discussion / Re: Two Years Later: An Insider's Perspective on the RA3 Debacle

« on: July 03, 2018, 10:06:31 PM »

Quote from: kill343gs on July 03, 2018, 09:31:45 PM

It was clear to me when I finally got my hands on it that they had a lot of ideas going, but nothing was ever really finished.

Well yea, it's the company that made, "Dr. Rottenbones & The Factory of Flab"

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Discussion / Re: The problem with competitive IRL in RA2

« on: July 03, 2018, 12:27:20 PM »

Quote from: pokebro14 on July 03, 2018, 11:41:49 AM

It's why I enjoy the lower weight classes as aside from overhead spinners there isn't an actual meta for it and so people create some pretty neat stuff

That's a meta. In fact, LW an lower IRL will be a worse than normal meta if those robots go on to win because it'll be composed of them and only them.

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Contests / Re: A New BOTM - DSL-IRL (CHASSIS FOCUSED) VOTE (July 2018)

« on: July 03, 2018, 08:35:41 AM »

Quote from: moziet on July 03, 2018, 07:35:32 AM

THIS ENTIRE POLL IS STACKED TO THE BLOODY BRIM WITH GREAT BOTS

HOW DO I CHOOSE

If in doubt, vote for yourself and act coy about it.

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Discussion / Re: DSL 2.2 Complete Edition - Clickbeetle's Response

« on: July 02, 2018, 10:17:53 PM »

Quote from: FOTEPX on July 02, 2018, 09:12:51 AM

Therefore, to keep the most users satisfied, it would be best to steer DSL as a mod in the direction of IRL. Yes, this will completely, radically change what we know as DSL-S - but, for the sake of keeping 'em happy... It's what's needed.

I thought someone tried that already. Y'know, trying to nerf every good part so that IRL had more variety (also maybe to make things look or feel more like OG DSL-S) and remove door hinges? Now, what was his name again?

Quote from: Reier on July 02, 2018, 03:17:08 PM

Quote from: superbot13 on July 02, 2018, 03:02:50 PM
Ban dsl-s. Problem solved

Nobody plays it anyway

not our fault if you can't build efficiently chief

Reier dunking the children.

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Discussion / Re: Two Years Later: An Insider's Perspective on the RA3 Debacle

« on: July 01, 2018, 04:30:15 PM »

Sorry, it's not April, we have to take this 100% seriously now.

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Discussion / Re: The Offical Robot Arena Site has been parked!

« on: June 30, 2018, 07:59:06 PM »

As I remember it, the website was RA2 related until RA3 was being promoted.

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Tournament Archives / Re: General Tournament Discussion

« on: June 30, 2018, 04:10:21 PM »

AW works best in something like DSL-S. Just because you still get DSL's part variety, and you don't have to put weight into things like strong motor supports or chassis. IMO this flaw isn't noticed at LW or above.

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Stock Showcases / Re: My Superb Stock Showcase that will Show how Suprisingly Swell I am at Stock

« on: June 30, 2018, 04:07:35 PM »

Ra2cf is making it worse. If you did this robot legit you'd have to make that chassis bigger to fit anything, and then it would be closer to the weight limit.

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