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Tournament Archives / Re: Robotic Murder Party 2 - SBV

« on: March 23, 2019, 08:35:52 AM »

Everything going well so far. Feel bad for the popup that beat EMERGENCY and still went out

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Tournament Archives / Re: [SIGNUPS] Boomer Brawl - DSL2.1 Standard Tournament

« on: March 19, 2019, 07:40:20 AM »

Still more than likely Nary will fail to send something.

Will you open it up to second entries?

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: ty4er's showcase

« on: March 12, 2019, 07:15:30 AM »

I expected nothing less from you.

Armour on hinges is pretty garbage as you found out.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Reier's DSL

« on: March 10, 2019, 04:21:43 PM »

If I'm counting right I think it's somewhat underpowered. Love the design though. Any reason you chose backlash wheels over hypnos? I can't recall the difference.

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Tournament Archives / Re: [SIGNUPS] Boomer Brawl - DSL2.1 Standard Tournament

« on: March 09, 2019, 06:44:09 AM »

Nary better remember to send something.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: SM's DSL off-topic-case

« on: March 09, 2019, 06:35:59 AM »

Turns out that the "HW" SnS was actually a CW. I think I built it for the CW Clash Cubes that was planned at some point.

Here's a shell spinner inspired by Urjak:

 

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Tournament Archives / Re: Boomer Brawl - DSL2.1 Standard Tournament

« on: March 06, 2019, 02:38:12 PM »

Clusterbots allowed?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Boomer Brawl - DSL2.1 Standard Tournament

« on: March 06, 2019, 02:14:38 PM »

unironically would prefer the combat arena with hazards off. it's the true boomer arena that was the standard and tbh is probably the most balanced

Any other thoughts on this? I wanted an arena with OOTA potential so that flippers would be viable. How about one of the BBEANS arenas?

bbeans is way too small for 2.1 imo

also id say low walls hurt the meta more than they help. flippers really aren't that great in 2.1 compared to 2.2 and low walls are just going to give even more of an advantage to things like popups. at the same time it's also going to put things like shells and wedgeless vs at bigger disadvantage.

Yeah but I'm terrible at building anything but flippers.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Mystic2000 crap showcase - DSL version

« on: March 06, 2019, 05:50:06 AM »

Looks pretty decent so long as opponents can actually rest on top of the weapons. Not sure about the wedge setup either. I feel like small wedges on skirt hinges weren't that good.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Dreamcast's Showcase (DSL)

« on: March 06, 2019, 02:59:12 AM »

Could do with something protecting that chassis from popups.

Maybe remove those DSL bars?

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Tournament Archives / Re: General Tournament Discussion

« on: March 05, 2019, 06:43:31 AM »

I'm totally game.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: SM's DSL off-topic-case

« on: March 03, 2019, 11:38:03 AM »

Before I start building again I thought I would do a bot dump clearout of unfinished projects.

 

Evolution of Cologne since the last one I showcased. I guess Firestorm flippers had more HP or something? Idk what I was thinking.

 

Upgraded LW flipper

 

Slightly over the top HW flipper. No idea if this is better than 4 JXs but the theory back then was that multiple BSGs were better at flipping.

 

 

 

Some SnSs from just when they started becoming hated by everyone. Including my idea for a flipper that used angled skirts to flip opponents. Didn't work at all though.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Naryar's DSL showcase - The manliest, most baguette showcase of all

« on: March 02, 2019, 03:41:19 PM »

That's about as flawed as I would expect from a MW as you already said. I was very much expecting a HW from my suggestion.

Probably worth rotating the hammer motors so they don't stick out?

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Naryar's DSL showcase - The manliest, most baguette showcase of all

« on: March 02, 2019, 11:41:09 AM »

FS Side hammer hybrid plz.

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Robot Rumble 2.0 / Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development

« on: March 01, 2019, 10:19:08 AM »

"Taking Google's DeepMind AI" is way beyond the scope of this.

We're talking about a simple set of logic that takes the available inputs from the game and outputs commands to the robot. This should be possible in any basic language. Miniscript seems perfectly adequate. I would have to have a play around before really commenting too much.

Maybe you could create a little demo with 2 simple robots that can drive, turn and activate some kind of weapon. Then if you expose arena/bot parameters as readable and motor/weapons as writeable we can try it out.

I'm a software engineer , although I'm usually working with C/C++, I should be able to give some useful feedback.

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Robot Rumble 2.0 / Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development

« on: February 28, 2019, 12:06:46 PM »

I echo what Badger says. I imagine you can hide those values from the user.

The other disputed factor in RA2 was movements that were not "human reproducible" along the lines of rapidly switching a motor on and off to save power or doing fancy things such as meltybrain.

Sounds like you have a pretty good grasp of how it should we to though. I have very little preference for either language. What sort of math libraries do they include? I imagine that might be a factor in more complicated routines.

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Robot Rumble 2.0 / Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development

« on: February 28, 2019, 10:21:54 AM »

How much freedom are we giving?

Will it be a set of defined functions which we edit the contents of?
Or will there be a lot more available?

The issue with RA2 AI is that you could modify parameters which were unrelated to movement/weaponry and make instant win AIs.

I almost feel like a drag and drop overlay might be more intuitive from a basic programming level.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: ra2

« on: February 23, 2019, 01:30:53 PM »

Yeah, peak RA2 for me was back in the DSL 2.1 days even with the whole Flail-pocalypse. There feels like less of a sense of accomplishment winning an IRL tournament than a standard one as half the boys you face are really designed to win.

I feel like a weird generation of RA2. Too late to be one of the "old guard" but no longer recent either.

Bring back competitive building.

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Stock Showcases / Re: Inf. - The Rebirth

« on: January 18, 2019, 02:38:40 PM »

I don't see how that fixes much. As Sage said, without good HSs the meta just shifts to wedge wars. Popups are so good because they both have a chance against HS and tend to be easier to give a good wedge.

Also the LW rules will just get you a 9HS anyway.

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Site News and Feedback / Re: What would you like to see from GTM.

« on: January 18, 2019, 02:37:42 AM »

FYI everyone. We had an official YouTube channel for a while. Don't know who controlled it.

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