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Messages - JoeBlo

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: GTM Awards 2013 - Results!
« on: January 05, 2014, 10:18:26 PM »
Yay I won nothing! :D

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Contests / Re: Vote BOTM Dec 2013
« on: December 01, 2013, 10:39:17 PM »
Lol kinda funny.. I had a robot named nuclear winter that I was going to enter too but all the fancy coding/custom components wasnt really going to plan (and lagging to death) so I gave up haha.

Congrats anyway, its still a worthy winning robot even without competition :)

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Existing Games / Re: Ratchet And Clank
« on: November 18, 2013, 10:32:27 PM »
Thats why I havent finished it.. needed more people with it to play along.. otherwise its pretty basic and not as much fun.

Dont know anything about qforce other then its a spin off title.. still want t play it lol

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Existing Games / Re: Ratchet And Clank
« on: November 18, 2013, 07:55:23 AM »
Just noticed they released Into the Nexus (final part of the Future Series)


I havent even finished All4One or Played QForce yet  :rage

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Custom Components Showcase / Re: Battleshots
« on: November 07, 2013, 08:12:13 AM »
Well Joe, progress is progress, and the sooner we get longer repair times, the better.


Yeah haha, I was playing ingame tournaments and it got annoying so I decided to attack it a little


got it to display more time but not been able to break into the equations yet.. right now it subtracts all the excess time on the first component lol

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Custom Components Showcase / Re: Battleshots
« on: November 06, 2013, 07:56:36 AM »
Well made a tiny bit of progress.. sadly I think ive hit an .exe wall now :(





I also attempted making a by-pass on the repairs screen... but the game just crashed post battle so far lol


(Not a battleshot as such but still a screen shot..)

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Contests / Re: Vote BOTM Nov 2013
« on: October 26, 2013, 10:23:03 PM »
Well that's a shame.. times sure have changed :( people used to get so creative building shw robots.

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 1. Are you looking to purchase a new gaming console in the next year? Nope, havent played my old one enough yet lol
2. Do you typically purchase gaming consoles from a store or online? store in person.. dont trust the post enough
3. Do you consider yourself loyal to a certain brand? If Yes, which brand are you loyal to? Yes, Always been only Sony for the last 12 or so years
4. Do online reviews affect your purchasing decisions for consoles? Not really considering the brand loyalty
5. Do advertisements affect your purchasing decisions for consoles? Again not really, I tend to just upgrade as time goes on
6. How does the price factor into your decision to purchase a new Console?  4
7. When a new console is released to the market, there are "Launch" games that are available at that time. How important is this to you?  2 (ive always bought consoles at a later date when later games/ greater selection turns up)
8. How important is the availability of certain "franchises" with your console purchase? (eg: Halo with X-Box, Mario with Nintendo, Gran Turismo with Sony, etc.)  4 (Sly Raccoon FTW)
9. When it comes to consoles, how important is it that you have the latest technology?  1 (Usually just buy as a need)
10. When it comes to consoles, how important is it that you have the oldest technology? (retro-gaming) 1 (Have a handful of favourite games but im no collector)

Hope that helps :)

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Contests / Re: BOTM Nov 2013
« on: October 21, 2013, 11:26:45 PM »
As an added incentive to enter.. for the winner Ill work out a prize, to go with the spinner theme.. maybe beta test apocalypse? Or make a team for it?

Ill work something out depending on how far along I am with things :)

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 12, 2013, 08:57:36 AM »
No worries :) just letting you know we're still on the same page and I havent gone crazy.... yet :P

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Yeah absolutely but I will give it a crack.. I think I have everything I need to transfer from VHS to on my Mac 

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 12, 2013, 04:44:38 AM »
Yeah, I got the "planned" aspect of it :)


I was just explaining the need for the poll to close a hole in the rules to Naryar more then anything

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 08:09:51 PM »
Still seems complicated.

I'll think of a very simple but clean system...

Complexity in the writing perhaps (avoiding loopholes) but overall we have made it a one step process as opposed to the backwards and forwards of poll voting

If you impose the minimum must be met with entries that would eliminate the poll... but also questions how strict you want to be?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 10:32:58 AM »
"Must be planned to hold" is a good way of phrasing it I think.


Maybe the first should be 8-16?


Could even make number 2, 16-32 and then you can host a major league?


Successful AI and filming of 24-48 robots over 2 occasions seems like a good enough proving ground to me?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 10:03:55 AM »
TBH I'll just put a limit on entries for tournament newcomers:

1st tourney-16 max
2nd- 32 max
3rd -48 max
and no limit from the fourth and so on. It's not like you can have 50 different entrants in a tourney anyways.

No minimum bracket size.



Minimum is another problem all together.. run 2x 4 robot tournaments and suddenly your allowed 48? :/ 

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 09:36:17 AM »
Well no, its not exactly a forced bracket size...


Just set a max entry list size.. the host can do whatever they like for a format within that number..
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 :smile:

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 09:27:42 AM »

Of course its open to tweaking and input :)

In the interest of simplifying I changed from 16+Wildcard on the first and 32+Wildcard on the second to just use 32 spaces as you see fit. This also makes Craaigs life easier not having to check up how many entry's its allowed


Honestly, Major league's will have trouble hitting 48 so its not much of a restriction.


Perhaps a 24 limit? either for a bye bracket or 16 plus a wild card? (or other creative uses hosts think up)


With that.. maybe 2 Entry Levels = A Major League? or is that pushing it too far?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 11, 2013, 09:10:26 AM »

It should be the host's decision if they will lower the bracket size.

^ Agreed, not that 7 bots in a 16 bracket will make much difference compared to 7 in an 8 bracket.


This is my proposed simplified format for Entry Level, with (perhaps temporary?) no limit 




Thats meeting the entry size and interest poll halfway rather then absolute

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Tournament Archives / Re: Tournament Rule Change Discussion
« on: October 10, 2013, 10:09:34 AM »
IIRC Fotepx never got banned? And Sparkey could never AI in the first place XD

It was Sparkles who was the main offender I think?

People evading the systems too was a significant problem at the time

TBH I don't like the interest poll. While we've had a few tourney flops in the past (Wolfsbane's Twisted Metal tourney and Lightning S' two tourneys, where half the entries were byebots), we barely have enough tourneys now to justify the current poll, so while an interest poll could have worked well back when the minor league poll was introduced, I don't think it's a good idea now, as it just slows down tournaments even more.

Basically I think the situation is, tournaments start up needs to be fast tracked.. less polls, approval systems and restrictions (including relaxing the time constraints a little)

However, as you outlined, tournaments lacking much interest are what we need to discourage now

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Ive been poking through the RW wiki lately and noticed there is zero information on the Australian broadcast for the international league.


While Australia got Series 3, 4 and a bit of 5 before it was taken off the air as normal (Craig Charles, etc) you might be interested to know we got a completely different and unique broadcast for the international league


International League was the first ever robot wars to be shown in Australia, I believe that was the point of it, before S3 was shown


The Host we had for this show was Jay who still stood up in the stage where Craig did.. although the lack of crowd noise while he spoke suggested the arena was actually empty during his segments


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Laga'aia


Unfortunately I didnt know the commentator or pit reporter nor can remember.


The other interesting thing was that Terror Australis was never shown, only Terror Australis II (Nemesis) was and was never explained that it was a replacement.

The last thing I can remember was the House robots intro was the 1st World Championship one (without JP though) instead of the regular International League intro


I have a feeling I may have 1 or 2 matches on VHS somewhere.. Im going to see if I can dig them up and get them on the computer to show people RW in a way you have never seen before :)

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