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Site Information => Site News and Feedback => Topic started by: ianh05 on July 27, 2010, 07:01:13 PM
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hey guys I've been wondering what is needed to achieve veteran status on the forums. I've been around for about 7 years or so, hosted more tournaments then most, showcased a heap of bots and helped out the new people.
to sum up, i would like a purple title :)
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Besides frezal and sorrow, Veteran is for people who have been respected for modding and/or bot building during their time. At least that's my take on it.
You should definitely be an advanced user at least, and I bet if you built something besides AWs and LWs Veteran should be within reach for how long you've been here. Personally I think RObO and Scrap deserve it as well.
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hey guys I've been wondering what is needed to achieve veteran status on the forums. I've been around for about 7 years or so, hosted more tournaments then most, showcased a heap of bots and helped out the new people.
to sum up, i would like a purple title :)
If you're creating a thread about it, you're probably not a vet. I suggest sending ACAMS a PM detailing why you're a Vet. Not why you think you're a Vet, but why you are one.
There's nothing specific anyone can do to be a Vet. Either you are one, or you're not.
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yeah i know i like to stick to the light weight classes, it's just more fun for me to try and build bots no one has seen before in those weight classes. I was also a little confused between the difference of some advanced users and some Veterans for example SSG is a vet and MikeNCR is advanced :/
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I've been wondering why Virus Bomb and myself haven't become advanced users for a little while myself.
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I want my Technical Advisor title! >:(
No, but seriously, the more you ask about it the less likely you'll get it. And to be perfectly honest, I've first heard of you about a month ago.
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I want my Technical Advisor title! > :(
No, but seriously, the more you ask about it the less likely you'll get it. And to be perfectly honest, I've first heard of you about a month ago.
I've been showcasing bots for two years now, and (imo) giving some of the best advice possible in the stock showcase, and I own the Battlebotsvideos (http://www.youtube.com/user/Battlebotvideos) youtube channel =|
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That was about ianh5.
Also, lolwut. Fear my pink title of doom.
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:O
nothing compaired to my Blue Screen Title Of Death
on the topic of Vets I back MikeNCR for Vet for sure.
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There are a couple of people that should be AUs. 40757, G.K., RIBBS, Redline(at least AU), Ounce, urjak, virus bomb, probably craaig
For Vet- Firebeetle(even though he isn't on much), MikeNCR
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lolz FB is still antweight last I checked
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If you ask, or have it in your sig you will most likely not get it!
ianh05 has been around a long, long time and got overlooked because he dissapeared for a year or so.
Serge lost his Tech status when he hacked the forum......lol, serves him right :p
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I never was Technical Advisor before :P.
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I thought you were......I'm sure you were!.........you are now, so do some technical advising!
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Well, to start, I keep getting an error whenever I try to use my Existing admin powers. :mrgreen:
EDIT: OK I'll delete this if it's spam
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Trov, Apanx and Serge were TA's..... We made a category just for you guys...
(Pink was ACAMS' choice... hehe. Actually I think it's cool.)
Sparky: Well then, we'll just have to fix that....
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It looks more Wine to me.
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It looks more Wine to me.
I've never seen a wine that shade of purplish-pink.
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There are a couple of people that should be AUs: urjak,
I used to be one before I was spontaneously demoted after the forum switch.
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Congratz Ian!
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thank you :mrgreen:
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Since ian got vet status, I think MikeNCR deserves it too. He's been a member of GTM's since '04.
And Urjak, The Ounce, 123STW, amd Virus Bomb for AU's.
Personally I think RObO and Scrap deserve it as well.
If that's the case, you have to include Jack Daniels too.
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I think MikeNCR, R0B0 and SD should be veterans.
I also think Urjak, The Ounce, VB, 123stw and G.K. should AUs.
Anyway, congrats ian!
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I agre with everything Gazea said except me becoming an AU.
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Why don't you agree with you becoming one, G.K.? You have saved tonnes of tournaments, made lots of good bots, you have given lots of good advice, you have helped people out with projects and you are a good member of this forum. The list could go on and on so, why shouldn't you be one?
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Fair enough. I personally feel that there are others, i.e. the ones you mentioned, as well as Red and Doom, who deserve the AU status more than me.
And whenever did I make a good bot? :P
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Why I can't be AU? :mad:
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Because you keep asking for the position.
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So what?
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If you ask, or have it in your sig you will most likely not get it!
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Aw poo... It also annoys me, that no-one isn't nominating me... :frown:
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That's a double negative. You mean, that no-one is nominating you.
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Jonzu, when you deserve to get nominated, you will get nominated.
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Roger that.
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wat
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It also annoys me, that GK Joined later than me, and he is famous than me...
/complaining
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Wanna be like GK? Stay away from Story Time and help others in RA2 stuff. :P
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And spam over 25 posts in a day... XD
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Well, it worked...
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does anyone get the feeling there will come a time when we will have more AU's then normal active members ? :P
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A bit.
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Same.
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it could be possible, as long as we don't all of the sudden get a spam of new members
*que the spambots*
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no chance
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/87854gtmhamer.png)
:gawe:
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MikeNCR deserves it too. He's been a member of GTM's since '04.
Crappy logic. By that line of thinking I should be veteran too for being an official forum member or something.
Perhaps there should be a voting process.
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Perhaps there should be a voting process.
I vote that I stay in charge of that............VOTING CLOSED!
How was that?
If you moved up to advanced user just by post count, Sparkey would be an advanced user.....and clearly he is not!
Urjack is Spiderweight......one of the few special catagories that I created by hand....he can be an AU instead if he wants and I will delete the usergroup.
OR, we can do away with special usergroups all togather and everybody can be post count rated.
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Veteran status SHOULD be warranted by building or modding skills. It IS an RA2 forum after all. Being here super long is no warrant by itself.
I also think Veterans should be somewhat scarce so they actually mean something.
Personally I think RObO and Scrap deserve it as well.
If that's the case, you have to include Jack Daniels too.
Not necessarily. You and Scrap are twice the builder JD is, in both DSL and stock. Even if he's been around long.
Just my opinion.
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Perhaps there should be a voting process.
never fear, when this site needs to decided something it calls for Excessive Complexity!!!! :gawe:
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Urjack is Spiderweight......he can be an AU instead if he wants and I will delete the usergroup.
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Nooooooooooo.... I would never give up spiderweight. I just liked my name in orange. :mrgreen:
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Hey ACAMS, you think I could get a Cassius IIweight ranking at some point? = P
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thats why you have the CT feature
ACAMS can always just set an orange name for the Spiderweight group
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Jonzu, it's a respect thing. Respect is earned, not pleaded for.
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Oh, welcome back, Sparkey. Have you cured your
AIDS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
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I don't feel like arguing, it gets us no were and it depletes this forum
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I'm usually against taking sides, and I don't mean to bring up a past post. But Sage brings up a good point.
I'm pro-Vet nomination, but I think it will be more beneficial to promote those who have made great achievements in the innovation of Robot Arena 2 in various ways in the past. On that note, if everyone ends up becoming Veterans just because they have been on a forum for a period of time. It takes away from the value of the nomination in itself. The nomination started on the old forums for those who have made very big innovations to the game: JimXorb with his discovery of the Rupt Glitch, RadioFSoftware with his various AI Packs and Components, CherryFlavored, whom only a few of us old timers know, who've actually invented the antiballast that we use in our designs to this day, Darkrat with his contributions to the creation of DSL, Starcore for his superhuman skill of creating difficult robots with such percision and perfection for not 1 but 3 AI packs, for starters. These people IMO deserved such a title for their contributions.
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Veteranship, at least during my tenure, wasn't an official deal. The existing veterans either accepted you in as a veteran, or they didn't. I was accepted in amongst those such as Grawss and HackerX within a year or so.
How much one accomplished was fairly meaningless. Be0t did quite a bit, but was never accepted as being a veteran by the community at large. Which just goes to show that you can do amazing things and still be a total n00b (a very kind n00b, but a n00b nonetheless).
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MikeNCR deserves it too. He's been a member of GTM's since '04.
Crappy logic. By that line of thinking I should be veteran too for being an official forum member or something.
I don't see how that logic is crappy. If someone's been around the RA2 community for a while (let's arbitrarily say five years) and has been an active/contributing member for most of that time, they've been around long enough to be considered a veteran in my eyes. So, if you've been around for that long then yes, you should be a vet as well.
The problem here is few people here agree on what the criteria for a veteran is. I'm getting the sense that quite a few people view building skill as the main factor in determining veteranship, but I disagree with this. toAst and frezal from what I've seen aren't nearly as skilled builders as Virus Bomb, Pwnator and The Ounce and I've never even seen Serge build a bot. But why do we consider them vets? Because they've been around the community for a long, long time. Building skill should be the main factor in the Advanced User group, but tenure definitely defines a vet.
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and I've never even seen Serge build a bot.
Mainly because I suck at building them.
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I've never even seen Serge build a bot.
Here is Serge's bot he showcased
HAI GUISE AMIDOINITRITE?
(http://imgur.com/w0SuH.png)
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Perhaps there should be a voting process.
I vote that I stay in charge of that............VOTING CLOSED!
How was that?
Tck. :p
'Twas just a suggestion. I initiated no vote. :gawe:
I don't see how that logic is crappy. If someone's been around the RA2 community for a while (let's arbitrarily say five years) and has been an active/contributing member for most of that time, they've been around long enough to be considered a veteran in my eyes. So, if you've been around for that long then yes, you should be a vet as well.
The problem here is few people here agree on what the criteria for a veteran is. I'm getting the sense that quite a few people view building skill as the main factor in determining veteranship, but I disagree with this. toAst and frezal from what I've seen aren't nearly as skilled builders as Virus Bomb, Pwnator and The Ounce and I've never even seen Serge build a bot. But why do we consider them vets? Because they've been around the community for a long, long time. Building skill should be the main factor in the Advanced User group, but tenure definitely defines a vet.
Well, yeah. The crappy logic call came from how it was apparently just for timespan in the community. Deeds should have a stronger influence.
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and I've never even seen Serge build a bot.
Mainly because I suck at building them.
Somthing you can't do?
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and I've never even seen Serge build a bot.
Mainly because I suck at building them.
Somthing you can't do?
There's a lot of things I can't do.
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Bots were different in our era. Style mattered a lot more than how many maces we could fit on a boring little chassis.
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SHOWCASE NAO
I really do wanna see some classic style sbots from other members.
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SHOWCASE NAO
I really do wanna see some classic style sbots from other members.
I'll do my best to rebuild my classic bots when I finally get around to reinstalling. People will complain about the size of my chassis on all of my bots, but I won't care. The paint job has always been more important to me anyway.
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I won't. Like RFS, I hate most modern building, I have a ton of realistic bots that I never show. One of the things I hate is the "Airtight chassis" crap, it's the complete opposite IRL. But then again, IRL dosn't kill your bots when the chassis is hit.
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Bots were different in our era. Style mattered a lot more than how many maces we could fit on a boring little chassis.
Yep, it was seeing how many iron spikes we could fit on a badass little chassis. Maybe that is why everybody said my bots were overloaded.....what ever the heck that means. (would be like saying a millionaire is loaded and a billionaire is overloaded I guess)
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Veteran status SHOULD be warranted by building or modding skills. It IS an RA2 forum after all. Being here super long is no warrant by itself.
I also think Veterans should be somewhat scarce so they actually mean something.
Personally I think RObO and Scrap deserve it as well.
If that's the case, you have to include Jack Daniels too.
Not necessarily. You and Scrap are twice the builder JD is, in both DSL and stock. Even if he's been around long.
Just my opinion.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Sage is right & I totally agree. I can skin bots better than both of them though. :P
I like being an AU & I appreciate that title very much. I am surprised that everyone makes such a big deal of the titles on this forum.
Think of it this way. You could sit in a pretty office on the highest floor of the tallest building in your city. On the front of the door could have, in big shiny gold letters, your name and "CEO" right after it. Signifying you are important. Ultimately, though, if you are dick... everyone is still going to think you are a despite your title. So, earn your respect and cherish when people look up to you even if you don't have a title. :P
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Bots were different in our era. Style mattered a lot more than how many maces we could fit on a boring little chassis.
Yep, it was seeing how many iron spikes we could fit on a badass little chassis. Maybe that is why everybody said my bots were overloaded.....what ever the heck that means. (would be like saying a millionaire is loaded and a billionaire is overloaded I guess)
yeah but yours are creative and not "lets see how many bots I can build on the same chassis"
And the crazy Face spinner popup, witch I' m suprised hasn't taken off.
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Bots were different in our era. Style mattered a lot more than how many maces we could fit on a boring little chassis.
Yep, it was seeing how many iron spikes we could fit on a badass little chassis. Maybe that is why everybody said my bots were overloaded.....what ever the heck that means. (would be like saying a millionaire is loaded and a billionaire is overloaded I guess)
Weren't you one of those smelly AceUplink people?
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Veterans or not. A title is a title. There are some great contributes on these forums. Whether they are vets or not. There will be some mixed views as many said before on what a veteran really is. I think its interesting though as to how some of us became vets in the first place. Some of the Old world vets like frezal here makes an excellent point on how Vets were "introduced into the group" while some new world vets are more noted for their contributions.
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Weren't you one of those smelly AceUplink people?
AU is the main place my bots were called overloaded. (probably because I ripped them to shreds in online battles)
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Weren't you one of those smelly AceUplink people?
AU is the main place my bots were called overloaded. (probably because I ripped them to shreds in online battles)
So I guess you're to blame for the way kids build bots these days. Or Starcore. His AI packs always made me scream, "AHHH!!! YOUR BOTS ARE TOO COMPLICATED!!!"
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Blame Starcore, Rejected, infiniteinertia, and Pwn.......I had just about quit building bots about the time Starcore did SCv2.
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It would be cool for you to start a showcase.
Wow, I don't think I've made any Grammar errors today.
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Starcore's packs made me create RA2GE. For those who felt inadequate.
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It would be cool for you to start a showcase.
Wow, I don't think I've made any Grammar errors today.
You switched tenses mid-sentence, and "grammar" shouldn't be capitalized :P
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Wow, I don't think I've made any Grammar errors today.
See your previous post in this thread.
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One of the things I hate is the "Airtight chassis" crap, it's the complete opposite IRL.
Actually,
You know that IRL, bot builders especially in the smaller weight classes do make tight chassis?
And you brought this up before, but I can't find it.
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On topic.. if there is one anymore
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I think we should just stop promoting everyone unless fully deserved and get on with the point of the forum - eg RA2.
As someone said in the thread, can't remember who, even if your 'status' changes, people won't think any different of you.
I think you should really have to earn these statuses and be picked by those responsible - eg ACAMS.
I don't feel I've done enough for AU or anything, I've just been a forum member, and I think those who ask for these statuses *coughyouknowwhoi'mtalkingaboutcough* are a bit sad. You earn it. Like in actual real life, you earn money (etc), you don't just walk up to people and shout at them telling them to give it to you.
Some people are deserving of higher statuses I will admit, but I don't think we need to promote everyone.
Rant overr.
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JEEZUZ CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIG WAY TO BE A PARTY POOPER.
and get on with the point of the forum - eg RA2.
I agree. +1 rep in spirit.
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If we keep getting AUs and Vets at this rate, then everyone will probably be one or the other by 2012...
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I just want SquirrelMonkeyweight back. (Or combine it with Urjak to form SpiderMonkey weight)
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Small bump, but oh well.
if people ask for these things because they've been on for, say, 6 years, you should give them titles like "forum middle-ager" instead of AU and maybe "forum old-timer" instead of vet; if they deserve to have AU or vet status by doing something for the community afterwards, they can have it. an example would be, say, someone whose been on for five years, whose done nothing for the community, asking for vet status; instead of giving them vet status give them, say, "Forum old-timer" status instead. good idea?
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I agree with Bubbleman on this. But not 'Forum old-timer', just something a bit different.
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Forum Elder might suit, or maybe Experienced User.
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I like 'Forum Elder'. It should be for good bot builders who have stayed on the forum for at least 2 years.