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« on: November 22, 2015, 02:38:34 PM »
mechadino's bot is actually so smart.
Yep. And thanks. It has everybody out wheeled. :) (Plus huge chassis = high chassis hp)
Exactly. They all break their weapons on your hammer and the chassis HP regens every fight, whereas component armor that break off would not. So smart.
3402
« on: November 22, 2015, 01:24:36 PM »
mechadino's bot is actually so smart.
3403
« on: November 21, 2015, 05:58:00 PM »
I'm doing comp-sci at uni, doing A-level physics.
3404
« on: November 21, 2015, 04:43:18 PM »
Are there no titles for Ironforge?
3405
« on: November 21, 2015, 04:08:26 PM »
Mr. AS quick on the trigger with the Johns.
3406
« on: November 20, 2015, 05:07:23 PM »
VS needs a bit more juice but its a solid design.
More weapons or faster motor?
3407
« on: November 20, 2015, 02:43:14 PM »
I made things. Generic things.   I thought it looked pretty bad but does pretty well in combat. Wedges are fab and it does a ton of damage   Very generic popup, IDK if razors or blades are the best damage for weight, but when I used blades they didn't seem to be doing much. Does well in fights, as a generic popup does. Also I like re-using chassis.
3408
« on: November 20, 2015, 06:50:08 AM »
3409
« on: November 20, 2015, 05:21:39 AM »
 4, 6 and 10 microfarad capacitors hooked up to a 4.5V battery in the configuration above. Would it be 3.2 uF? (1/c = 1/(6+10) + 1/4)?
3410
« on: November 20, 2015, 02:11:52 AM »
That's pretty good for a first bot! If I could improve it, I would suggest putting the weapons on one side. I created a helpful sketch because I suck at explaining. Where red arrows represent rotation direction and blue represents where your weapons should be concentrated. See how the non - blue edge of the disk will never hit another bot?
3411
« on: November 19, 2015, 11:49:50 AM »
If you use the below-minimum chassis height and raise your blackbirds 1 tick, you can make it invertible using the 2nd smallest wheels Then you could get more spikes or wider wheels.
3412
« on: November 19, 2015, 11:26:43 AM »
Would you be able to make it invertible with the slightly smaller wheels? Are 2 duracells fine in a longer fight? Looks pretty nice though.
Edit:
Only other thing I can think of is seeing if pole spikes work better than the irons. Not sure how the weight/dps/durability of the 2 compare to each other.
Edit 2:
Oh and maybe you could save some weight if you replaced some extenders with weapon connectors? Not too sure.
3413
« on: November 15, 2015, 07:14:10 PM »
Love them all, 2nd in particular!
3414
« on: November 15, 2015, 04:30:20 PM »
I actually tried something like that, only with the penta-connector. The side razors were too low to hit anything and the one on top got wiped out really quickly by HSs. The FS you posted is awesome though, if the bottom one a HW?
Yeah - an unshowcased one, I might add. I should probably show that off... Just testing out an evolution of it right now, actually  Anyways, this is how I connected the plows:
An upside-down 65 degree baseplate connector to a 20cm connector, 1 rotation tick to the inside to the plows, which are slightly angled.
Yeah I wanted to avoid using skirt hinges where possible, I love the new collision-less anchors and the fact that you can invert them, it lets you do so much more cool stuff
3415
« on: November 15, 2015, 02:16:01 PM »
Sounds really cool, anything to get more activity going in the community
3416
« on: November 15, 2015, 02:14:13 PM »
I actually tried something like that, only with the penta-connector. The side razors were too low to hit anything and the one on top got wiped out really quickly by HSs. The FS you posted is awesome though, if the bottom one a HW? Anyways, this is how I connected the plows: An upside-down 65 degree baseplate connector to a 20cm connector, 1 rotation tick to the inside to the plows, which are slightly angled.
3417
« on: November 15, 2015, 01:33:37 PM »
Ironforge really needs some more weapon choices!
Nah. I don't think you quite got the point of Ironforge.
It's hyper balanced and there is 1 component for every sort of use. I wrote up a small tutorial which I need to build on really here.
It's more the Stock way of doing things rather than DSL's floods of components.
Razors or Beaters would be best here I think.
Ah, I see. I miss having bear claws, spike strips and axes to use, but I understand the design choice now. On your first one I think you can get away with smaller weapon motors like yellow zteks. On both your main problem is that the weapons you've chosen have normals which means they only do damage on the sharp edge, if you orient them in better ways it'll improve your bot a lot
I didn't realize there was smaller motors! I assumed the z-tecs would be the same size as in stock. I thought the firebird was a bit overkill even on it's own. Update: The yellow z-tec provides plenty of power and it does a lot more damage now. Thoughts?
3418
« on: November 15, 2015, 01:12:13 PM »
Thanks for the info! I was experimenting with weapons but I couldn't really find any that fit well. Ironforge really needs some more weapon choices! Razors stuck out too much and got taken out by HSs in 30ish seconds, the knife blades didn't have enough reach, the sickles could've worked well but I think their normals would've rendered them inefficient, and I didn't want to use beater bars. I settled on battleaxes, firstly because you don't see them that often, especially on bots like that, and they are tall enough to reach bots on the top of the plows, but small enough to allow them to climb up the plows. I'll have another fiddle with sickles and beater bars to see if I can get a better configuration going.
3419
« on: November 15, 2015, 01:06:56 PM »
That was awesome! One of the most enjoyable battles I've seen. Congratulations , although both bots looked to be very interesting and well-made!
3420
« on: November 15, 2015, 12:52:34 PM »
Was making a poker, couldn't find a good place to put the piston, made this instead. Wedges are meh, but it deals with HS MUCH better, and has an overall better time getting under most things. Are there any AI packs for Ironforge, or is it just the default bots for now? What are the best bots to test against?
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