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981
« on: December 11, 2018, 08:44:23 AM »
In battles and builds. It hardly even works on my computer, but maybe my computer is just plain awful.
I can't even put together a single bot!
982
« on: December 11, 2018, 08:39:47 AM »
i refuse to believe someone as enthusiastic about ra2 is this dense. i've already told you to never use n-12s. flip the weapon motor over so the black bit isnt sticking out and it should run inverted fine.
instant fun needs a nifty to be full powered, and wtc is super ****ing slow for a poker, especially for one with axe heads'
youre wasting a ton of weight with the irons on the extenders on htgc and it would probably work better if it had a wedge instead
can we get insides on wedgebreaker? it definitely looks a little chunky
A. Yes, I'll see if I can flip the weapon motor. Thanks for that. B. My forums are no swear zones. WTC is actually very effective, and too many pokers in the AI use HP zteks. I want a variety. C. HTGC has leftover weight. members of GTM want me to built to the weight limit. The chassis is too small for a snapper. There will very likely be more FS in 2.0 that use wedges. D. "Chunky" more like "Bulky" I'll bring up a screenshot of the internals when I can. E. Instant Fun has 4 pinks. It's not underpowered.
983
« on: December 11, 2018, 06:15:37 AM »
That's one tiny poker. It reminds me of that Wandering Spinner I built not too long ago, that weighed 68.9 kg.
984
« on: December 11, 2018, 06:11:13 AM »
you should be wiring your "spin" command to a button and not a switch. most ai will flip a switch on and off instead of do anything useful, severely hurting your bot's effectiveness when aied.
also i believe the correct term for this kind of wheel-less bouncing spinner thing is "bumble ball".
I didn't know that exists... ...and thank you for the point about the button. That helps.
985
« on: December 10, 2018, 07:58:32 PM »
In general I find it hard to continue giving advice in this thread since the same mistakes are made over and over again with no respect to what we said in the past. For example I think the batteries are a pretty straight forward thing to understand. All spin motors draw only 10 amps, so a single black battery can power two of them. Additionally, black batteries have the best electotal meaning that there's no reason to use more of them than what is necessary to meet the amp requirement. However, you seem to have a tendency to stuff extra batteries wherever there is room to, without concerns to the extra weight or the excessive chassis sizes. If you want to build competitive bots that preform well against others then you have to start caring about how you spend weight and take heed to the advice that is littered throughout this thread. That means making the chassis smaller to meet your needs, instead of accepting its size and filling it up.
A short summery of the tendencies include excessive batteries, excessive armor, bad weapon placement, and useless extensions off the robot. For example, the "Shell Spinner" has way too many batteries, a huge chassis, a ninja star that will never do damage (while protecting worse than armor would), and beater bars placed in a way so that there's only about 10 cm of contact area between the plate and the farthest reaching point. Additionally, we only get the weightclass and armor on half the robots, we rarely get the full weight in kilograms, and there's this curious obsession with building one-wheeled spinners that wouldn't show controlled movement or ever be tournament legal, all of which makes it very difficult to provide advice. If you consider your robots "art" and are not interested in advice that would make them better (as suggested by disregarding the basic building guidelines we have laid out), then let us know. Regardless, I don't think I'm going to post more advice here if it means repeating what has already been said a dozen times. If you want to improve, then reread the comments in this thread (and your stock thread) and try to understand Reier's post above. Build by those rules, and we can go from there.
Protection, protection, and more protection. The weapon star is there for protection. Beater bars places as shown to achieve balance between longevity (after bouncing off walls) and damage. Beater bars are chosen because of HP. This WS already deals up to 2,500+ hitpoints when it hits another bot. Yes, I accept your advice, but that's Wandering Spinner Science. It's "Whacky" (pun intended.) There has to be plenty of batteries so the WS can keep full power, since it will not strike an opponent as often. weapons. Action and reaction. Same thing. Wandering Spinners are something that I've been doing for my whole RA2 life, and that's how I get to build them like this. Big chassis= Stability- Depending on the fighting style... And again, WS aren't built for tournaments. Advice on original average bots- easy to take in. Wandering spinners- not so much. One more thing- I tried typical battery setups- the WS DIED. half-way through the match.
986
« on: December 10, 2018, 07:50:35 PM »
5Z can definitely be invertible. I'm also not sure how useful casters are on the base of a LW. Would work better with side defence imo.
5Z has castors, which make it immune to popups. This also makes it stable.
Side defence isn't a necessity on a HS like this, but it IS something to think about. Thanks for the tip.
In what world are popups the threat to a 1WD HS? You want to protect your wheel and weapon motor more than your baseplate.
If you insist on the bottom armour then at least make it invertible.
...For swapping the shiny hub for an N-12, sure thing.
987
« on: December 10, 2018, 07:48:06 PM »
If this is a bump- sorry.
I tried Robot Rumble 2.0. It literally killed my computer with glitches. Can that be fixed, please?
988
« on: December 10, 2018, 07:29:41 PM »
I tried Robot Rumble 2.0, and I got some results... It glitched my computer to death. Even with simple bots.  I don't know about you, but this game's a hazard...to my computer at least. I'll try it on a different one, but until then, utter disappointment. This should really be under Sight News and Feedback, but an error occurred. Sorry.
989
« on: December 10, 2018, 04:52:02 PM »
Even though you named it after a generic robot, it vaguely reminds like Scrap Box from SCv4.
If you use a snapper setup and only one or two anchors, you should be able to get more spikes.
Actually, Spikes on baseplate anchors are harder to knock off, because there are no exposed extenders.
990
« on: December 10, 2018, 01:38:13 PM »
Is newbies creating leaving threads the new hotness or something? 
perhaps...
991
« on: December 10, 2018, 01:32:01 PM »
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
okay. I'll remember that. Thanks.
992
« on: December 10, 2018, 01:29:59 PM »
Hey guys,
Sorry for the random post but recently I've found myself spending less and less time on RA2 and GTM and the time I do spend, I very rarely enjoy. This has got to the point where I quite literally don't want to get bots ready for tournaments and I certainly cant bring myself to build any. Anyway this post is here mainly to announce that Im leaving GTM for an undecided time and this means that Im also not carrying on my tournament. Im really really sorry to anybody who had entered and was excited for it but if I don't enjoy playing RA2 anymore, the best tournament I can probably churn out, if I could even manage to do it at all, would probably be very boring and unenjoyable to watch.
I am really sorry for any inconvenience and if I ever return to this game and GTM, I will do a different tournament instead of Shred Bots.
'Know how I relieve boredom- build weird AI packs, such as packs with bots that use lasers or packs that are only Wandering Spinners!
I hope everyone who entered your tournament understands why and doesn't flame out...
DID YOU JUST
Oh, sorry. Thank you.
993
« on: December 10, 2018, 12:46:35 PM »
you can make a caster LW HS invertible.
Yes, you can.
994
« on: December 10, 2018, 12:38:22 PM »
Redforge will be my first Ironforge AI pack. Here are the bots I've developed for it so far... This MW is called, "Detonator", but should really be called "Pointless Bot." 5 mm. Steel and 288 kg. It functions like a motorized barrel with spikes. LW HS on the same team. Rather fun build. 5 mm. Aluminum and 128 kg. (UNDERWEIGHT)
995
« on: December 10, 2018, 12:08:51 PM »
5Z can definitely be invertible. I'm also not sure how useful casters are on the base of a LW. Would work better with side defence imo.
5Z has castors, which make it immune to popups. This also makes it stable. Side defence isn't a necessity on a HS like this, but it IS something to think about. Thanks for the tip.
996
« on: December 10, 2018, 09:35:21 AM »
RedForge AI pack under development...
>New AI for Ironforge.
>Bots developed from me and other people including my family.
>Reskinned Combat Arena.
>New UI.
998
« on: December 10, 2018, 09:12:22 AM »
Now, more AI for 2.0... Instant Fun. Looks like a mini Octomini Xtreme. WTC. First a side hammer... ...now a poker becuse it was rebooted due to AI errors. ZZZZZ, 5Z for short. It's NOT a Wandering Spinner because it spins in circles for most of the time. Green Machine. I packed in as many castors as possible. DSA and ? razors (I can't count how many!) 799.7 KG without SZ.
999
« on: December 10, 2018, 09:02:57 AM »
It's what's inside that counts... on most bots... Anyway, ALERT-MORE REBOOTS! HTGC... old... new... WedgeBreaker's now a poke-up...
1000
« on: December 10, 2018, 08:55:00 AM »
Pretty good.
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