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Discussion / DSL 3 Beta Improvement Suggestions

« on: April 18, 2013, 01:29:27 AM »

I talked to click about this.
you can post suggestions for things that could be improved or implimented in DSL 3.
To make it easier for click I will summ up the suggestions and put them into this post.

Hey Click!
This is a suggestion for the armor plates.
I love them. They make building so much better but:

- the "solid" one is 3 times the weight of the transparent one. do you think you can make one that is only 2 times the weight of the transparent one? you could make the heavy ones we`ve got now a bit darker and use theire current skin for the medium plates.

- could you add another AP to each plate in the corner? it would make "exoskeleton building" much easier and more flexible since you can save weight with not needing some weired extenderwork to get one of those things on

- can you change them so we can attach components to the armorplates? would be cool for future designs.


-Thy

It would be a lot of grind work, but a middle weight of armor plates with corner attach points could easily be done.  Actually, this would be one of those things that someone else could help with, as it would just involve reskinning and adding APs.
I was thinking about something like this:


Just to get this straight, by "corner attach points", you mean on the same face as the other attach points but in the corner, right?

Attaching components to them sounds cool in theory, but you have to be careful not to add too many and make them too good.  You'd need some fixed number of component attach points regardless of size, or else the 120x120 plates would have at least 9 attach points, which would definitely break them.  Which means you need either 1 attach point in the center, or 4 in the corners.  What do you think?  Is one attach point for components enough?  I would hesitate to add four of them.
I had 4 APs in mind like that:

-Rearangement in the powertab so a Controllboard is visible on first sight -  by Conraaa
-5° Angle extenders - by Thyrus
- BBEANS 3 Arena in DSL 3 - by Powerrave
- 30, 50, 70, 90, 110 cm extenders - by Thyrus
- Saws attachable to eachother - by MassimoV
- making all components the right lenght (e.g. 120 cm dsl bars -> same lenght as 120 cm extender) - by 123stw
- Wedge Armorplates - by clickbeetle (on cloud 9's botm splash)
post yours below

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Existing Games / Arma II - Dayz mod

« on: March 20, 2013, 01:32:53 AM »

Anyone playing it?

I'm usually on:
De 1514
and
Warboy

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation² - SBV

« on: December 08, 2012, 09:52:33 AM »

Copypasta from Season 1:

 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VjtKe8dF20&feature=youtu.be#

1. DSL Standart Heavyweight (No IRL tourney! :P)
2. Realistic Rule Applies.
3. No cheatbot2 or custom components.
4. No crawlers, !NEW! no flamethrowers
5. Multibots are not allowed
6. No BFE/AAM, all building must be done in the botlab


______________________________________________
I made a poll for the format of series 2. you can decide if you want the regular Total Annihilation system:

16 Bot bracket:
Each       heat starts as a 4 way melee. The first bot that gets KOed,       immobilized, flipped OOTA or has the fewest points after the 3 minutes       match time is up is pulled out and the fight gets restarted in a       different arena  with the 3 bots remaining. The last bot standing goes       to round 2. In this case round 2 is the final since I plan to allow   16   entrants.
If a bot havoks in it`s own favor, the match will be       restarted. If the same bot havoks again in it`s own favor it will be     eleminated.
Special Rule:
NFX gets a  free place in this since he     won the first season. He(1) and the other 3 grand   finalists     (Craaig(2), MartyMidget(3) and Vertigo(4)) are seeded and   won`t be in     the same heats. Only NFX gets a reserve spot.


or


31 Bot bracket:
1v1     eleminators in the bigining. The winning bot moves on tho the main     tournament wich then will be like the 16 bot bracket. This allows more     users to enter the tournament but on the downside only half the bots   can   perform in the mainbracket.
Special Rule:
NFX does not have   to   fight in a qualifying match since he won season 1. The other grand     finalsists of series 1 won`t fight each other in the qualifyers nor     (this includes NFX aswell) in the first round of the main tournament.
only NFX gets a reserve spot.


If the the poll goes for the 31 bot tourney I will enter too. If it goes for the 16 bots I will not enter.
______________________________________________

interchangeable arenas with hazards on (will be chosen by a randomizer - -  http://www.random.org/lists/ )
I`ll type the 6 arenas in and take the top 3 since there are just 3 fights in one "heat")

The Arenas are:
DSL Tourney, Kenzorg IGC,  Lu-Tze's RA2t#2 , Serges Ring Arena, Clicks BBEANS v2 arena and !NEW! the Electric Arena 2 if I can skin it in a good lokking way

Draw will be done by a randomizer (http://www.random.org/lists/)

______________________________________________

you     can update your bot once after sending it. This does not mean you can     send a bot as placeholder to have a save spot. Update must be made on     the original bot that has been sendet or a rebuild of it.
empty spaces will be filled with byebots.
This time I will only allow the first 16 robots to enter. No Wildcard matches.

Please AI your bots. If you don't know how to do it I'll AI them by copy pasteing from fitting bot types.

Free places will be filled by byebots. Those will be some robots of season 1 that have lost in the first round

______________________________________________

This should be all. If you have suggestions post them.

Sign ups:

blue = Byebot
green = recieved
red = problem
purple = AIed and ready to go
orange     = NFX special thing he won with beating craaig in the final of the     first Total Annihilation... you should know that.. or didn`t you watch     it? How dare you! :O
(U) = used update


01- NFX (#1 Seed)
02-SKBT
03- martymidged (#3 Seed)
04- madman3
05- ty4er (U)
06- Craaig (#2 Seed)
07- MassimoV (U)
08- S_M
09- Nicsan2009
10- Conraaa (U)
11- qwerythe300th
12- Badnik96
13- Courthousedoc
14- Jamin
15- 090901 - yeah I had to look it up :/
16- dragonsteincole
17- Mouldy King Bash
18- G.K.(#5 Seed)
19- Noodle
20- Vertigo (#4 Seed)
21- Virus Bomb
22- Mr AwesumeSauce
23- Jack Daniels
24- Sylandro
25- Atilla Revolution
26- GRinder
27- Lord of the Locusts 2.1
28- S=FTW
29- RipShredder
30- 1001 Problems
31- Titanium Terror

Sign ups end on October 1.2012

Qualifiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgqijv8XcJY&feature=youtu.be#

Heat A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qFXEzgdQAk&feature=youtu.be#

Heat B


Heat C


Heat D


Grand Finale

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation² - Sign ups [CLOSED]

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:35:26 PM »

Copypasta from Season 1:

 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VjtKe8dF20&feature=youtu.be#

1. DSL Standart Heavyweight (No IRL tourney! :P)
2. Realistic Rule Applies.
3. No cheatbot2 or custom components.
4. No crawlers, !NEW! no flamethrowers
5. Multibots are not allowed
6. No BFE/AAM, all building must be done in the botlab


______________________________________________
I made a poll for the format of series 2. you can decide if you want the regular Total Annihilation system:

16 Bot bracket:
Each     heat starts as a 4 way melee. The first bot that gets KOed,     immobilized, flipped OOTA or has the fewest points after the 3 minutes     match time is up is pulled out and the fight gets restarted in a     different arena  with the 3 bots remaining. The last bot standing goes     to round 2. In this case round 2 is the final since I plan to allow 16   entrants.
If a bot havoks in it`s own favor, the match will be     restarted. If the same bot havoks again in it`s own favor it will be   eleminated.
Special Rule:
NFX gets a  free place in this since he   won the first season. He(1) and the other 3 grand   finalists   (Craaig(2), MartyMidget(3) and Vertigo(4)) are seeded and   won`t be in   the same heats. Only NFX gets a reserve spot.


or


31 Bot bracket:
1v1   eleminators in the bigining. The winning bot moves on tho the main   tournament wich then will be like the 16 bot bracket. This allows more   users to enter the tournament but on the downside only half the bots can   perform in the mainbracket.
Special Rule:
NFX does not have to   fight in a qualifying match since he won season 1. The other grand   finalsists of series 1 won`t fight each other in the qualifyers nor   (this includes NFX aswell) in the first round of the main tournament.
only NFX gets a reserve spot.


If the the poll goes for the 31 bot tourney I will enter too. If it goes for the 16 bots I will not enter.
______________________________________________

interchangeable arenas with hazards on (will be chosen by a randomizer - -  http://www.random.org/lists/ )
I`ll type the 6 arenas in and take the top 3 since there are just 3 fights in one "heat")

The Arenas are:
DSL Tourney, Kenzorg IGC,  Lu-Tze's RA2t#2 , Serges Ring Arena, Clicks BBEANS v2 arena and !NEW! the Electric Arena 2 if I can skin it in a good lokking way

Draw will be done by a randomizer (http://www.random.org/lists/)

______________________________________________

you   can update your bot once after sending it. This does not mean you can   send a bot as placeholder to have a save spot. Update must be made on   the original bot that has been sendet or a rebuild of it.
empty spaces will be filled with byebots.
This time I will only allow the first 16 robots to enter. No Wildcard matches.

Please AI your bots. If you don't know how to do it I'll AI them by copy pasteing from fitting bot types.

Free places will be filled by byebots. Those will be some robots of season 1 that have lost in the first round

______________________________________________

This should be all. If you have suggestions post them.

Sign ups:

blue = Byebot
green = recieved
red = problem
purple = AIed and ready to go
orange   = NFX special thing he won with beating craaig in the final of the   first Total Annihilation... you should know that.. or didn`t you watch   it? How dare you! :O
(U) = used update


01- NFX (#1 Seed)
02-SKBT
03- martymidged (#3 Seed)
04- madman3
05- ty4er (U)
06- Craaig (#2 Seed)
07- MassimoV (U)
08- S_M
09- Nicsan2009
10- Conraaa (U)
11- qwerythe300th
12- Badnik96
13- Courthousedoc
14- Jamin
15- 090901 - yeah I had to look it up :/
16- dragonsteincole
17- Mouldy King Bash
18- G.K.(#5 Seed)
19- Noodle
20- Vertigo (#4 Seed)
21- Virus Bomb
22- Mr AwesumeSauce
23- Jack Daniels
24- Sylandro
25- Atilla Revolution
26- GRinder
27- Lord of the Locusts 2.1
28- S=FTW
29- RipShredder
30- 1001 Problems
31- Titanium Terror

Sign ups end on October 1.2012

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Stock Showcases / Thyrus` rarely updated Stock showcase

« on: April 26, 2012, 04:10:07 PM »

++Don`t expect something very special++

This showcase will go down pretty fast I guess. The limit of stock components and the huge batts makes it hard to build good IRL designs. but here are some bots.

the bot on the top is a HW called Stockosaurus
the Axebot is called Methos and is a MW
the double Agent lookalike bot is a LW
and the bot on the bottom is a Antweight and is called Dig. It was originaly build for the first Combatants.

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Discussion / What are your motivations to play RA2?

« on: August 24, 2011, 07:11:06 PM »

Robot Arena 2 has no goal. No achievements or nothing you could do after you won a ingame tournament. It`s a rather old game but there are still many people playing it.
so what are your motivations to do so?

I still play it cause I want to bring new shapes in this game. DSL makes it possible to bring up completely new designs that couldn`t be done in stock. I love to experiment with the dome parts and the flippermaker. and with this waste of weight I try to make an good looking MW robot.

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Chatterbox / Thyrus moves

« on: August 18, 2011, 11:39:47 AM »

As I mentioned in some threads already I`m moving to Munich: the city of Weissbier and Weisswurst. I`ll stay ther for at least a year if not longer. I don`t know how soon I`m getting an internet provider. So I will be offline for some weeks I guess.
Also I have problemes with my external harddrive with all my RA2 files on. That`s the reason why I havn`t taken my free spot in BattleBots2.

Moving means a new part of my life starts and I`m unsure how much time I`ll spend on my laptop or on GTM. We`ll see what happens.

well.. that`s it for now.

-Thy

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Challenge Board / Virus Bomb vs Thyrus (Thyrus Wins)

« on: July 27, 2011, 03:47:15 PM »

I challenged VB and he accepted.

it`s

vs.

DSL HW
no cheatbot2 parts
no BFE or glitches
best of 3
1 Restart after a bot havoks. If said bot havoks again it`s DQed.
Arena will be the Combat Arena

Powerrave is the host for this

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Off-Topic Discussion / BitDefender vs. Steam

« on: June 28, 2011, 10:22:46 AM »

Hey guys. As you might know I bought a new laptop. I downloaded steam and a trial version of Bitdefender. But it seems that BD causes all the hl2.exe games to crash after a short time playing and sometimes those games don`t even start. The only thing I get is the preparing to start yxz and after a short while this screen disapears and nothng happens. Taskmanager says that the game is running but it isn`t

I`m now thinking about changing to another internet security programm but I don`t want to use Kaspersky since I had a lot of problems with it in the past and also the latest one seems to be crap (from the things I read on different forums)

can anyone help me there?

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Existing Games / Far Cry 2

« on: April 13, 2011, 11:44:44 AM »

Does anyone play it? Baisicly the multiplayer?

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Challenge Board / FOTEPX vs Thyrus (DQ: FOTEPX)

« on: April 07, 2011, 01:41:01 PM »

So FPX once challenged me for a realistic battle. I came up with the idea of making this UK vs. Germany style say: We both have 4 bots. FPX`s bots are in one heat and my bots are in one heat. the winner og each heat moves on to the final where the best bot of FOTEPX meets my best bot
(If you still don`t understand: watch UK vs. Germany)

Criteria for the Robots are:

DSL MW
IRL realistic

Arena will be the
Robot Wars Arena
(I hope I havn`t forgotten anything)

That`s how this will look like



Someone wants to host this?

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General Support / Kaspersky is blocking Youtube

« on: September 29, 2010, 10:30:56 AM »

I`ve got Kaspersky  Internet Security on my laptop. Since my dad installed it Youtbe is blocked. I was already looking for solutions but nothing worked. Can someone of you may help me with that?

PS: I am not allowed to uninstall Kasper-fuc*sky

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Existing Games / Borderlands

« on: August 18, 2010, 07:29:20 AM »

Does someone (still) play it? What weapons do you got? what`s your favorite character? stuff like that.

I prefer to play the soldier. But also the hunter with his bloodwing

A friend of mine and me finished Dr. Neds Zombie Island yesterday and tomorrow we will start playing the other add ons.

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation - NFX vs. G.K. vs. Badnik vs. S_M

« on: August 02, 2010, 02:58:19 AM »

First of all:

Thank you to those who entered this tournament and congrats to the winners. Thank you for making this possible. This Oscar is making me very proud! well...
I apologize for the long time you had to wait for some battles.

Awards:

Best Design: Focus Fire - JoeBlo
Most Promising: Valid Query 2- NFX
Most Feared: Fever - Craaig
Bot that should have done better: Hope No More - Naryar
SFTW: 1001 Problems - GroudonRobotWars
Best Moment: G.K.s bot flipping out Repulsion Field. - G.K. & Inplabth

Congrats to the winners

NFX request: Valid Query 2 vs. Scarlet Transmission rematches


Badnik vs S_M vs NFX vs. G.K.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v762yX1vCA4&feature=youtu.be#

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Discussion / Wedge goes through the ground

« on: July 15, 2010, 12:47:19 PM »

That`s pretty annoying. Can somebody (not only the user) help me?

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation - Brackets, Splash, Videos and Predictions

« on: June 27, 2010, 08:49:26 AM »

Wildcard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYjXzqp6hw&feature=player_embedded#

Heat A:

Heat B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7kzvvIAssE&feature=player_embedded#

Heat C:

Heat D:

Grand Final: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWgEAb6ryE&feature=player_embedded#

Battle 1
Battle 2
Battle 3
Battle 4
Loosers Final

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Discussion / Chassis turning glitch

« on: June 13, 2010, 05:18:44 AM »

Don`t know if someone of you has ever seen this before.

I was playing with the snapper2 and was unable to compile the component.cfz. so I went into the dsl folder and copiepasted the bsg.txt and changed everything so it was using the snapper2.gmf. I went ingame and then this happend:

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation Signups

« on: June 08, 2010, 01:05:18 AM »

Rules:

1. DSL Heavyweight
2. Realistic Rule Applies.
3. No cheatbot2 or custom components.
4. No crawlers.
5. Multibots are not allowed
6. No BFE/AAM, all building must be done in the botlab


Each heat starts as a 4 way melee. The first bot that gets KOed, immobilized, flipped OOTA or has the fewest points after the 3 minutes match time is up is pulled out and the fight gets restarted in a different arena  with the 3 bots remaining. The last bot standing goes to round 2. In this case round 2 is the final since I plan to allow 16 entrants.
If a bot havoks in it`s own favor, the match will be restarted. If the same bot havoks again in it`s own favor it will be eleminated.

interchangeable arenas with hazards on (will be chosen by a randomizer - -  http://www.random.org/lists/ )
I`ll type the 5 arenas in and take the top 3 since there are just 3 fights in one "heat")
 DSL Tourney, Kenzorg IGC,  Lu-Tze's RA2t#2 , Serges Ring Arena and Clicks BBEANS v2 arena (all reskinned).

There are places for 16 entrants
Draw will be done by a randomizer (http://www.random.org/lists/)

you can update your bot once after sending it.
empty spaces will be filled with byebots.
Deadline: june 27, 2010

Got it
problem
AIed
U = updated

Signups are closedentrants:
1. Martymidget - Clowning around 2 - U
2. Vertigo - Bulldozer 2
3. GroudonRobotWars - 1001 Problems - U
4.NFX - Valid Query 2
5. inplabth - Repulsion Field
6. Hydro - Titanium Terror
7. Craaig - Fever
8. Thyrus - Atilla Revolution
9. Naryar - Hope No More 5.2
10.freeziez - RipShredder
11. trumpetguy - Devil May Spin 3
12. JoeBlo - Focus Fire - U
13. Powerrave - Scarlet Transmission
14. G.K. - 75.5 ?iouQ tE
15. DG - GRinder
16. WILDCARD-winner


The wildcard match will work like the one in robot wars: fight til only one bot is still standing

Wildcard:
1. Badnik96 - Lord of Locusts 2.1
2. 027 LB - Rain Rain Go Away!
3. Squirrel_Monkey - S=FTW

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Tournament Archives / Total Annihilation Tournament Idea

« on: May 11, 2010, 10:25:04 AM »

Hey guys,

I came up with the idea of an annihilation tournament.

Each heat starts as a 4 way melee. The first bot that gets KOed, immobilized, flipped OOTA or has the fewest points after the match time is up is pulled out and the fight gets restarted with the 3 bots remaining. The last bot standing goes to round 2. In this case round 2 is the final since I plan to allow 16 entrants.

I was talking to Craaig about this once. He suggestet to take a random arena after every restart. I ask you what you think. Always the same arena or change it after every fight?


Rules would be:

1. DSL Heavyweight
2. Realistic Rule Applies.
3. No cheatbot2 or custom components.
4. No crawlers.
5. Multibots are NOT allowed
6. No BFE/AAM


If you want the arena change thing, the arenas would be: DSL Tourney, Kenzorg IGC,  Lu-Tze's RA2t#2 , Serges Ring Arena (and may Clicks BBEANS v1 Arena if he allowes me to use it.)

I can film and AI but would be great if you would AI yourself since I only do copypaste.


I would start signups in June if someone is interested in this.

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Modifications / Robot Wars Series 3 Mod

« on: April 13, 2010, 12:44:20 AM »

So this will be a mod, some users will work on.

What we need is:

-The arena - by JoeBlo
-Possible new UI - by JoeBlo
-People to AI - Gazea2, Thyrus, G.K.
-Replicas - Sonny_Resetty, Thyrus, G.K., Doomkiller, Squirrel_Monkey, Craaig, JoeBlo, Ashman12, Badnik96




Everyone who wants to help is welcome.