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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #880 on: August 17, 2018, 11:43:58 PM »
i would definitely spin both weapons the same way though, otherwise you'll be having a harder time getting the surface area for big hits.
I did test that and it was actually worse for me since it lost even more control and can't even really do anything.

I think the AGOD at this point might be a result of the vertical snapper setup.  So that I'll have to experiment with that to see if i can get a better setup for anything.

Also, I think I got an addiction to stock again, if that even means anything, cause I've been screwing around lately, and after some experimenting later...



So this is pretty cool, but I was disappointed that I couldn't get DSA without being 3.5 kg overweight, so I took some suggestions, and one was to stack the birds together.  So I tested that, and then...



"Wait, I actually did it? " I thought.  Then I thought I was on to something, so...



I made it again, with DSA!  :D.  No seriously, this is a bot I'm actually kinda proud of since this is my first bot I probably have done with a bird stack so that's pretty nice.  Haven't tested this much, but I remember turning actually not being as bad as I feared so I hope it can actually beat Tempus Fugit again.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #881 on: August 18, 2018, 11:48:38 AM »
Dat stovepipe chassis.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #882 on: August 18, 2018, 05:54:16 PM »
Have to admit, that might be an improvement over my Black Box 2.  It couldn't do SnS mode but the wheels are more protected which is probably more important.

I would have made an octagon chassis with the wheels in the middle and the battery in the back, to improve turning and protect the wheels even more.  But I'm sure it would be a bloody pain to do that Redbird stack again, not to mention the Nifty+control board (which I still struggle with).

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #883 on: August 18, 2018, 09:54:00 PM »
I can't reliably do.. well.. any stack these days, really. Looking really good.


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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #884 on: August 19, 2018, 11:50:02 AM »
I'm sure it would be a bloody pain to do that Redbird stack again, not to mention the Nifty+control board (which I still struggle with).
Surprisingly, I managed to make another bot with both stacks again, so it must've not taken that long, haha.



I feel I probably coulda trimmed the chassis to maybe squeeze for a second mace or somethin, but I don't trust myself to get that stack again this quickly.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #885 on: August 19, 2018, 03:43:41 PM »
Looking good.  I see you implemented the octagon chassis setup, only on a different bot.

2WD rammers can get by on 2 small battery packs for power, so you could theoretically get a much smaller chassis.  Might have weight to upgrade the razors then, certainly if you replaced the T connector with an extender.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #886 on: August 21, 2018, 08:41:53 AM »
2WD rammers can get by on 2 small battery packs for power, so you could theoretically get a much smaller chassis.  Might have weight to upgrade the razors then, certainly if you replaced the T connector with an extender.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #887 on: August 23, 2018, 01:00:44 PM »
The stacked Redbird motif is used really well on these LWs. The HS is as good as it gets without exostacking the baseplate and switching out for two maces (which I don't know if the stack's even viable, and might look sort of dumb even if you'd gain 1000 HP from the 6 kgs).

The rammer is also really really good. You could use pole spikes or something, but the maces have way more coverage. I think the T-connecter is nice here, symmetrical and compact. maybe angle the maces down to cover the root extender? At that point you'd basically be optimizing against specific opponents.

If you use a pink battery and four maces you could build around a 140 cm Snapper II (2?) wedge, which may or may not be an effective variation. With 60 kg of maces on a LW, pop-ups might be your only weakness. If you add a wedge with that frontheavy weapon setup you'll end up with Lethal Force syndrome, where your only problem is that you'll get under everything all of the time.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #888 on: August 28, 2018, 03:03:22 PM »
So I can make things that are actually somewhat original in stock?  Nah, that timeline is dead.

 
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DSA, 3 Supervolts (Might be overkill but eh), and actually good wedges (or at least good driving skills from me).  Tested against RPB and NW, and damn.  Once this thing gets under things, it can juggle, gut rip, and shred wedges.  I've actually had fun with this one, both building and driving.  :D

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #889 on: August 28, 2018, 03:24:48 PM »
looks like a combo of victimizer and deadlock
looks nice af too :thumbup :thumbup, you could probably triple stack the 3 batteries and turn them 90 degrees for a smaller chassis to see if you could get hp zteks for the vs part but i'm not sure if it's worth it

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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #890 on: August 28, 2018, 06:24:14 PM »
Okay, that is seriously sexy. :heart_smiley:
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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #891 on: August 28, 2018, 06:35:03 PM »
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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #892 on: August 28, 2018, 06:36:29 PM »
Super hot my dude. Looks like a really good balance of weapon placement.


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Re: RedAce's Stock Market
« Reply #893 on: August 29, 2018, 01:51:19 PM »
looks nice af too :thumbup :thumbup, you could probably triple stack the 3 batteries and turn them 90 degrees for a smaller chassis to see if you could get hp zteks for the vs part but i'm not sure if it's worth it
Thanks, and that isn't a bad idea, tho I'm worried if it'll juggle too much or not.  That and I'm not sure if I got that much patience anymore.

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You got me.  I've always been Venko this whole time.  Clearly.

Anyway, made a hammer since those are one of my favorite bot types to build:

 
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2 Blacks, there were two things I wanted to do originally: Have actuators attached to wedges, ala Seism 13, but I didn't have weight for it.  Plan B was to have a weapon rack on the sides, which it did originally, but it didn't really help since they were way far out there.  This thing can potentially OHKO HS if I get a lucky shot, so I'm pretty proud of that notion.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #894 on: August 29, 2018, 01:59:31 PM »
Rename it to ":eggplant: :sweat_drops:" and I'd give it an 11/10.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #895 on: August 29, 2018, 03:12:23 PM »
really good. great plow setup too.
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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #896 on: August 29, 2018, 06:32:54 PM »
alright this is infinitely better than mine
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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #897 on: August 29, 2018, 08:25:49 PM »
did someone finally build a better hammer?

how are the wedges
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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #898 on: August 29, 2018, 09:58:54 PM »
how are the wedges
Very meh-ish.  AGOD kinda screws with 'em so that doesn't help.

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Re: RedAce's Stock Showcase
« Reply #899 on: August 31, 2018, 10:47:12 PM »
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Stock LW Hammers are kinda hard to make work, and I was trying to improve my old Ironbot Jr. Entrant, this thing, which kinda didn't work so well due to how narrow the plows were and they kinda didn't have much reach to do anything.  This version kinda takes a lot of inspiration from 09's bot, and I tried a number of things to get the best of everything needed as possible.  Messing with the weapon amount, how the plows would be angled, weapon reach, weapon power, really just a lot of things to try and make it tough against pretty much any HS it can come across, which make up 90% of the Stock LW meta.  It can do well against some rammers as well, haven't tested it much against anything else though.  Gotta be honest, even if it's slightly sloppy, I'm very satisfied with how it turned out.  If it traps anything, it can get some nasty hits, and could actually manage to kill in about 2-3 hits (DSA makes it slightly tougher but it still can get some hard hits in) as long as the hammer get knocked off in any way.  Might even kinda tinker around with it a little more so I can find a slightly less shaky setup.  It's the only thing I actually dislike about it overall.