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« on: July 01, 2011, 10:54:01 AM »
What kind of motors?
562
« on: June 30, 2011, 11:00:45 AM »
I often try to upgrade or adapt existing designs, so their names are often part of a series (Bane, Circle of Thorns), other than that I just use names that sound cool, thought up after the bot has been built.
563
« on: June 29, 2011, 09:30:14 PM »
Better. In my opinion you can make the chassis thinner and shorter, and use angled skirts instead of those poly extenders as supports.
564
« on: June 29, 2011, 08:28:08 PM »
Lets see:
For the drum you are going to want to shrink that chassis drastically, and change your orange bats to maybe 6-7 ants. Honestly, I think the drum would be better with two NPC Fasts and Technos, but regardless of the number of drive motors you have, ditch thepussycat wheels and get grippier wheels like vlads, tornadoes, or technos. With the extra weight you have, add on some extra weapons (16 razors really isn't quite enough), and get some metal hinge wedges (they are far superior to skirt hinge wedges).
On the VS, downgrade your weapon motor to a Perm 80 or maybe a TWRM, and give yourself some more weapons (you would probably want to ditch the sawblade and make it a standard disk VS). Grippier wheels would also be useful (maybe rubbers or vlads), but you can keep the astroflights, seeing as VSs don't have to be all that fast. Like I said for the drum, get a metal hinge wedge as well (or ditch the wedge and add static stabilizers along the sides to avoid the wedge war all together).
565
« on: June 29, 2011, 04:09:49 PM »
Hehehhe... I knew there might be some innuendo. However I shrunk mine (:P) and came up with this chassis: 
566
« on: June 29, 2011, 04:08:27 PM »
Alright, I decided to go four the 4 battery and shinies setup. Testing will be completed soon.
567
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:54:24 PM »
Here's mine:  Its bigger than yours. Come to think of it I might shrink it down to reduce lucky shots.
568
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:49:41 PM »
Just drive with drums off, then with drums on. It all depends on how many motors you have on at the time. It will be slow when all 4 motors are on at a time.
You're right, with the motors on the 3 battery version is a bit slower than the 4 battery version. However, with the wheels changed to shinies, it goes about as fast if not a tad slower than vlads with 3 batteries. As such I am not sure if there is much benefit.
569
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:25:52 PM »
BTW, can we compare chassis's?
Certainly. Would you like me to post a pic of my chassis here? (Watches this somehow get twisted and posted in the "Quotes Taken Out of Context" thread.)
570
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:22:08 PM »
Hmmm.. that bot looks familiar. :) Anyways, I think that the extender work could be lightened up. You really don't need to have invertible skirts for an LW drum (at least mine doesn't, it just runs along with the weapons scraping and seems just fine).
571
« on: June 29, 2011, 03:12:26 PM »
Really? I'd have thought the weapons would protect them. If you settled for 8 teeth, that should get you the second disc and another ant, plus some extra weight to beef up the extenders if you need to.
Well, I downgraded my piglet extenders to polycarb, and got a DSL disk (it helps a log against popups due to greater coverage area) and upped my stabilizers. As far is the ant is concerned, I did some testing with an extra ant and it only prolonged battery life, and not increase speed. I think the extra weapons are of more value. @Scorpion: I assume you mean 80cm stabilizers, for I already have 40cm ones. Unfortunately, aluminum 80 cm skirts are to heavy, and I do not want to use vulnerable plastic ones. @123STW: I am not sure exactly how I would use two 4cm skirts to cover my chassis (its too wide for the skirts to cover). Like I said for NFX, the extra ant does not increase speed.
572
« on: June 29, 2011, 02:51:09 PM »
What I might try is get a second disc on the top of the robot, instead of the DSL Bar. Maybe you could swap the alu extenders holding the weaponry to poly ones, maybe the ones holding the Piglets as well. That should get you the weight for a DSL disc on the top. 4 ants?
Ehhh... it is a tough call. I don't think 4 ants is going to happen, but I could reduce the piglet extender work and afford a DSL disk. I'm not sure how risky it is, though the extenders were never knocked off in testing. I do not want to drop my drum extenders though, as they are hit surprisingly often.
573
« on: June 29, 2011, 02:37:29 PM »
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« on: June 29, 2011, 02:23:25 PM »
Hello Everybody, being the old and masterful person that I am, here is my first good LW Drum, Warfly:   Warfly is an adaptation of my MW drum Warfrog, which in turn is an adaptation of my HW Drum Warpig. It has 10 light DSL teeth that are attached in a perhaps semi-realistic manner (I attached a second poly-extender onto the end of one of the aluminum extenders, and only attached weapons to the part that didn't intersect the other aluminum extender). I am not planning to enter it into any tourneys though, so it should be alright. The top and bottom protection allows it to take some beating from gut-rippers (not as well as Warpig or Warfrog) and even beat some popups. Any comments would be appreciated. :D
575
« on: June 29, 2011, 09:57:45 AM »
<- battlebots finalst
<- RW3 finalist :P
The title is "wtf is combat efficiency," not "wtf is IRL building." :P
576
« on: June 28, 2011, 02:04:13 PM »
Hmmm... well I guess if someone was going t bail this is the best time to do so.
577
« on: June 27, 2011, 10:37:13 PM »
Anyway, there has to be a shell spinner faceoff grudge match.
I'd win... :P Actually you would probably win seeing as you have more weapons.
578
« on: June 27, 2011, 08:23:52 PM »
Am I the only one here who has no clue what Bounty-Hunter syndrome is exactly?
579
« on: June 27, 2011, 06:42:37 PM »
ACAMS, if you think it is worth it then I'm all for it.
580
« on: June 27, 2011, 12:20:33 AM »
"I don't want to rebuild the chassis so what do I do instead?"
Rebuild the chassis anyway. Seriously, that is the last thing to do in order to free up that last bit of weight.
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