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[Horror]

I made this robot about 2 and a half hours ago. it is a light weight flipper. it is called SuperLauncher3000. it is in the attachments.

[SteveM4]

Shocaseing - your doing it wrong.

Have you looked at other peoples?

We put ours as .jpg or .png images in posts, not .jpg's in attatchments.

I cant even see it, only the top half, did you trim?

[Scorpion]

You can see it if you click on the image, although yeah it's probably devouring bandwitch or whatever.

Anyway, about the bot:
Use square extenders instead of rounds, they have the same strength but the round ones are lighter.
A black is too much for a lightweight like that IIRC, just use a nifty.
Use shiny hub wheels whenever possible, they're lighter and basically the same as the other wheels.
Tighten up the chasis, and try to upgrade the drive.
You might also want to add some weaponry to that bot, even if it's just a few spikes it'll help a lot.

[SteveM4]

Ah, now i see it.

I can also see it flop forward when trying to flip a bot.
Make a longer chassis, or put the motor at the rear to stop this.

Also, needs damage potential.

[Horror]

kingmushroom, how do you put the picture in a post? no, i did not look at any other showcases. was i supposed to?

i will change my robot now, Scorpion. thankyou for the advice.

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Use square extenders instead of rounds, they have the same strength but the round ones are lighter.

^What^
You mean use rounds instead of squares right?

[SteveM4]

Click on add image to post.



Navigate to your screenshots folder

Open it

Copy and Paste into your message.


Should look something like:

[Vertigo]

You can see it if you click on the image, although yeah it's probably devouring bandwitch or whatever.

Anyway, about the bot:
Use square extenders instead of rounds, they have the same strength but the round ones are lighter.
No, use round extenders instead of squares
A black is too much for a lightweight like that IIRC, just use a nifty.
NO, a supervolt is right
Use shiny hub wheels whenever possible, they're lighter and basically the same as the other wheels.
Yes, all wheels in stock have the same grip
Tighten up the chasis, and try to upgrade the drive.
No, redbirds are fine for a non-rammer lightweight
You might also want to add some weaponry to that bot, even if it's just a few spikes it'll help a lot.
Yeah, but flippers are useless in stock anyway, it still wouldn't win much

Don't give bad advice scorps, ok?

[Scorpion]

You can see it if you click on the image, although yeah it's probably devouring bandwitch or whatever.

Anyway, about the bot:
Use square extenders instead of rounds, they have the same strength but the round ones are lighter.
No, use round extenders instead of squares
A black is too much for a lightweight like that IIRC, just use a nifty.
NO, a supervolt is right
Use shiny hub wheels whenever possible, they're lighter and basically the same as the other wheels.
Yes, all wheels in stock have the same grip
Tighten up the chasis, and try to upgrade the drive.
No, redbirds are fine for a non-rammer lightweight
You might also want to add some weaponry to that bot, even if it's just a few spikes it'll help a lot.
Yeah, but flippers are useless in stock anyway, it still wouldn't win much

Don't give bad advice scorps, ok?

1) Erm, yeah grammar failure, i'm hardly going to tell him to swap his squares for squares an I?
2) I swear i've seen bots like this with only a nifty, I said IIRC because I was uncertain though so you are more likely to be right though.
3) Flippers may be rubbish in stock, but we should give advice for that bot, it's pointless if we basically just start telling him to redesign it as a HS now isn't it?

[SteveM4]

Yah, his bot, we just make it bettah/

[Vertigo]

You can see it if you click on the image, although yeah it's probably devouring bandwitch or whatever.

Anyway, about the bot:
Use square extenders instead of rounds, they have the same strength but the round ones are lighter.
No, use round extenders instead of squares
A black is too much for a lightweight like that IIRC, just use a nifty.
NO, a supervolt is right
Use shiny hub wheels whenever possible, they're lighter and basically the same as the other wheels.
Yes, all wheels in stock have the same grip
Tighten up the chasis, and try to upgrade the drive.
No, redbirds are fine for a non-rammer lightweight
You might also want to add some weaponry to that bot, even if it's just a few spikes it'll help a lot.
Yeah, but flippers are useless in stock anyway, it still wouldn't win much

Don't give bad advice scorps, ok?

1) Erm, yeah grammar failure, i'm hardly going to tell him to swap his squares for squares an I?
2) I swear i've seen bots like this with only a nifty, I said IIRC because I was uncertain though so you are more likely to be right though.
3) Flippers may be rubbish in stock, but we should give advice for that bot, it's pointless if we basically just start telling him to redesign it as a HS now isn't it?

Yes, but we should also give the following advice: Do not make flippers in stock, they are rubbish.
For a half decent LW flipper though, take a look at this:

[SteveM4]

If he is against stock AI, flippers beat everything because none can self-right.

[Vertigo]

If he is against stock AI, flippers beat everything because none can self-right.

Yes, but he really should atleast get a copy of starcore,to see how to improve

@Horror: Get Starcore AI, probably v3, download it via the link on the front page

[SteveM4]

I find starcore unbelievably hard.

[Vertigo]

I find starcore unbelievably hard.

Which version did you download?
You really should be able to beat SOME of the bots on sc3, even in starcore, some are bad

[Scorpion]

We don't want him to stay on stock for too long do we though ;P
Anyway, yeah lesson learned for him, stock flippers are bad, starcore is good and I suck at giving out advice 

[SteveM4]

I got the latest, but back then. I was all like  and the bot with 3 things inside each other came at me like  and i got all  and lost

[NFX]

Stock flippers are bad.

Stock flippers generally do suck. Popups are the closest thing to flippers in Stock. Pyramid Scheme was built purely for lols value.

[Somebody]

You can't take a random kid and tell him to get SCv3! When you do get starcore AI, get v1 first. But practice on the stock AI for a little while too.

[Stagfish]

I got v3 first.