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Title: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Vivixification on April 10, 2011, 01:14:58 PM
I have noticed a change in the forums. But let me explain :bigsmile:

I have been away from RA2 for more than a year, and I have seen the progression of the game and the forums since they both came out. I wanted to mention a big thanks to the community for making this so big. :beer:

I just made an account like 5 minutes ago, but I can assure you I have known the forums and the game since they were both created. I have just never had the time for making one :mrgreen:

Now go steal some candy :gunz:
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: GoldenFox93 on April 10, 2011, 01:20:09 PM
Welcome to the forums, mate  :D
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: GroudonRobotWars on April 10, 2011, 01:21:33 PM
I got the game at the beginning of 2009, spent 1 year lurking on the forum and joined in April 2010
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: freeziez on April 10, 2011, 01:27:01 PM
What was your username on the old forums?
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: ty4er on April 10, 2011, 01:28:51 PM
I just heard about the game and got it from the forum, so i joined the forums before getting the game  :rolleyes:
 :welcome
Glad you joined  :beer:
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: madman3 on April 10, 2011, 01:29:43 PM
Got the game in February, made an account quickly, disappeared and lurked for 5 months, rejoined and have been active ever since.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Scrap Daddy on April 10, 2011, 01:44:02 PM
had ra1 and ra2 since they came out and joined the forum in like 06 asking how to install starcore. Messed up my  game and came back like a year later when I had my own computer.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: GoldenFox93 on April 10, 2011, 01:47:39 PM
Anyway, my origins?

Well, I had both Robot Arena games, and joined the forums in about 2007. I thought I needed it to download stuff, but it turns out I didn't, so I left for two years, focussing primarily on my Youtube Account until then. When Youtube began going to pot, I came here, and gradually worked myself up to a reasonable degree of popularity.

And then this lot beGAN TEARING DOWN MY THREE YEARS OF HAR-
Ahem, I then hit a slight snag, but I've been recovering.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: NFX on April 10, 2011, 01:54:07 PM
Got Robot Arena 2 in around August of 2009 from some random file sharing site, joined the boards a week after. Forgot about this place for a while (kept playing RA2, though), came back around a year ago, and ended up sticking around. =] Met some great people here, got to throw my opinions out about stuff, and I've had a really good time so far.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Sage on April 10, 2011, 02:36:29 PM
found it at bargain bin at kmart, joined mar 29 2007
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: 090901 on April 10, 2011, 02:54:34 PM
found it at a Menard's back in 2008 or 2009
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Velocity EVO on April 10, 2011, 03:09:12 PM
Got RA2 off E-bay in october 2009 after pestering the heck outta my mum to get it for me. I knew about the game since late 2007
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: kill343gs on April 10, 2011, 03:20:32 PM
TL;DR, I'm kind of a big deal.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Somebody on April 10, 2011, 04:45:16 PM
Found site
lurked
left
found site again
bought RA2 on ebay
recieved RA1 instead
was pissed
person sent Ra2 as well and i got to keep ra1
joined june 14th, 2008
still here
???
profit
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Scrap Daddy on April 10, 2011, 04:47:31 PM
this is ridiculous am I the only one who bought ra2 for $30?
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: R0B0SH4RK on April 10, 2011, 05:00:41 PM
Nope. I got it for $29.99 the week it was released, played it ever since. Joined the forum a year or two later.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: 090901 on April 10, 2011, 05:04:44 PM
person sent Ra2 as well and i got to keep ra2
lolwut
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: kill343gs on April 10, 2011, 05:30:19 PM
this is ridiculous am I the only one who bought ra2 for $30?

$14 at KB toys
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: GoldenFox93 on April 10, 2011, 05:39:10 PM
this is ridiculous am I the only one who bought ra2 for $30?

$14 at KB toys
£5 at a School Book Fair. Best fiver I've ever spent.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: J on April 10, 2011, 05:39:59 PM
had ra1 and ra2 since they came out and joined the forum in like 06 asking how to install starcore. Messed up my  game and came back like a year later when I had my own computer.
HMMMM.... THIS SOUNDS STRANGELY FAMILIAR...

Though, back when the game was out, I had got my copy from a catalog of learning games.
Played it for about a year, then found the 1st RA2 forum in 2006. Hung around there until like early 2008, then "disappeared".
.....
Late 2010, I came back. And apparently I "got better" at RA2.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Jack Daniels on April 10, 2011, 06:18:15 PM
I joined Fall of '06 or Spring of '07.  Wanted a game that was better than Robot Wars for PS2.  Picked RA2 up on eBay for 10 bucks plus shipping.  Joined the forums right after that.

Been mostly active since. Though I do take my breaks away from the game for several months depending on how hectic life is.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Scrap Daddy on April 10, 2011, 06:26:10 PM
had ra1 and ra2 since they came out and joined the forum in like 06 asking how to install starcore. Messed up my  game and came back like a year later when I had my own computer.
HMMMM.... THIS SOUNDS STRANGELY FAMILIAR...
hahaha, I remember SpyGuy tried so hard to help me out and ended up getting frustrated. I was so dumb with anything that had to do with a computer. I expected the mods to go right into my game after downloading it and SpyGuy wrote like a page long guide how to install Starcore, but now looking back on it, I still did it wrong and only had the first three bots on each team. :P
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: GoldenFox93 on April 10, 2011, 06:28:39 PM
had ra1 and ra2 since they came out and joined the forum in like 06 asking how to install starcore. Messed up my  game and came back like a year later when I had my own computer.
HMMMM.... THIS SOUNDS STRANGELY FAMILIAR...
hahaha, I remember SpyGuy tried so hard to help me out and ended up getting frustrated. I was so dumb with anything that had to do with a computer. I expected the mods to go right into my game after downloading it and SpyGuy wrote like a page long guide how to install Starcore, but now looking back on it, I still did it wrong and only had the first three bots on each team. :P
The first three bots on each team, eh? I remember doing that with DSL once  :P
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: The Ounce on April 10, 2011, 07:00:55 PM
First off, welcome back to the forums Vivix!

As for me, I'm sure I have posts about my history of RA2 somewhere, but at the moment I'm too lazy to find them so, to summarize:

Bought the game off the official site 2 years ago, found the forums shortly after, started lurking for a few months afterward, signed up in June 2009, and the rest is history.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: JoeBlo on April 11, 2011, 05:51:49 AM
Wanted a game that was better than Robot Wars for PS2.

LOL Exact same for me too..

I youtubed it and found Click's VHS, that got interested in looking it up then eventually Torrenting it  :mrgreen:

Played with it a bit for a month or 2 / lurked then joined here January 2009..

Then this Site claimed a significant portion of my life from then on :P
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Thyrus on April 11, 2011, 06:34:41 AM
I got a cloned copie of RA2 from a guy from my old class (I don`t even know how the CD of RA2 looks like)
I`m playing RA2 since 5 or 6 years withouth a long break. I lurked sometimes. then I  joined back in 07 and posted once. 2 years and one day later I returned but I forgott my password so I made a new account and now I`m an active user since 2009.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Naryar on April 11, 2011, 07:55:07 AM
I torrented it way back then (5 years ago or something) but didn't managed to make it work, so I abandoned.

Then two years later I caught interest in it again, discovered the RA2 official forums and Gametechmods, downloaded the game, and made it work.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Meganerdbomb on April 11, 2011, 07:58:16 PM
I remember when this place was actually good. Then all you newfags came and ruined it.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Vivixification on April 11, 2011, 08:53:20 PM
To put it out, I never had an old account :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: SKBT on April 11, 2011, 09:08:38 PM
Here's my story,

I was into in battlebots back when it was on TV. I had all the toys: biohazard, diesector, ect. Then battlebots went off the air and I forgot about it. Then summer 2009 I saw something on the Travel Channel. It featured robot combat. I was instantly hooked again. I then did some major googleing and found NERC. I attended FI 2009 and decided I was going to build a robot. To research what makes a good robot I turned to my trusty friend known as YouTube. I watched many videos of robot combat and eventually stumbled apon that video of RA2 that everyone finds. (You know the one with that poker with a bunch of iron spikes and pistons.) I then found the RA2 site and decided to click the forum thingy only to find it led me to here. I didn't join at first but I did download RA2 from a certain bearded members sig. I lurked for about a month and then decided to join here using the name of my robot thinking it would get me some "street cred". Sufice to say it only caused some embarrassing  google results when looking for my bot so I then asked Mad to change my user name to SKBT and thats pretty much my GTM story.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Jonzu95 on April 12, 2011, 12:33:05 AM
Hmm...

I found out about RA2 When I was watching Robot combat videos in the beginning of december 2008. I downloaded it from some sort of weird website... Then I found GTM At march 2009, and Joined to the forums on May. I've almost been 2 years here. :3
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Scorpion on April 12, 2011, 02:49:50 AM
I remember when this place was actually good. Then all you newfags came and ruined it.
:trollface

I always wanted a GOOD robot combat game (I hate RW:ED on the xbox) and I'd looked before for one, but somehow completely missed this game, which is annoying otherwise i'd have been playing this game for atleast a year longer. Anyway, one time I was in the mood for robot wars again, watching vids though as I already thought that a good game didn't exist, and then I accidently found one of resseti's replica vids. I looked up the game, found this site, got stock an dsl, went away and played (mostly dsl) for about a week, then came back here and registered, and posted my first (crappy) bot not long after.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Clickbeetle on April 21, 2011, 08:11:32 PM
this is ridiculous am I the only one who bought ra2 for $30?


I got it for $20 if I remember right.  I saw an advertisement for it at some robot combat event I went to (don't remember if it was Mechwars or RFL Triangle Series), looked it up when I got home, found out it was already out, and went out and bought it at Best Buy.  This was maybe a year or so after it was first released.


I remember watching the little preview video on the main site and being utterly in awe of how realistic the physics looked.  After playing RA1 for a while you can't imagine how mind-blowing it is to see bots getting flipped and tossed around.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Avalanche on April 28, 2011, 06:09:15 AM
Saw RA2 on youtube.Got hooked on getting it. 2009 i made some rubbish bots.That same year i found the forum and joined.Got banned,but was given a second chance.And thats it.Still playing.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Scourge of teh Galaxy on April 28, 2011, 06:28:28 AM
Got RA2 from PR beginning of last year. I joined solely to attract his attention and found ST. I joined it, got ignored, left for a few weeks, came back, started a showcase, spammed ST for seven months, started being active beginning of this year. Now looking for a Stock Tourney to enter and am creating an MW pokerbot this evening
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: Kujii on April 28, 2011, 08:53:02 AM
I've had RA2 since October... 7 or so days after I joined. I've been actually playing rather then 'getting around to it' for about a month now.Its rather good despite its age.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: S.T.C. on April 28, 2011, 02:30:41 PM
Got the game and joined in 2007.
Title: Re: Progress of the Board from its Beginning :D
Post by: TeamXtreemer on April 29, 2011, 03:03:11 PM
Found it off a friend (dalecsec7)
Played.
Joined in Feb 2009/10
Left
Rejoined
Banned
Banned
Dont play often anymore. Just lurk.