Author Topic: Somebody's Showcase (Read 51205 times)

Somebody · « **on:** June 19, 2008, 04:44:55 PM »

This is one of my first robots, it is named Atomic. I know, I know, there are too many batteries and airtanks, but it never runs out, which is good.

Good: Relatively fast, powerful weapon, can turn easily, if I am stuck on a component from another bot, the weapons moves me enough to get me off of it, never runs out of battery or air

Bad:Not invertible, no side or back protection

Somebody · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2008, 07:33:29 PM »

Here are some Battleshots:

Sage · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2008, 07:44:50 PM »

golden rule of RA2- make a chassis the fits the components, not put components in a random chassis.

Somebody · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2008, 07:51:31 PM »

This is the first robot I ever built that even drove straight, and my first one that could win a fight, so I have just decided to not mess with it. It owns against all but sometimes EMERGENCY

Edit:Is there really even any reason for changing it? There is no room for anything else inside of it anyway, and it still does great.

Somebody · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2008, 08:29:23 PM »

Is there a way that I can make the chassis smaller Without deleting all of the components on the inside, because I would if I knew how, but I don't want to rebuild all of my robots a bunch of times just to try and get the size of the chassis right to save a couple pounds. Especially if it already works fine, such as Atomic

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2008, 09:01:45 PM »

Go to the Beetlebros website. Read ALL of the techniques they suggest, and gradually try to incorporate them into your bots. And download Starcore V1.0 (not 3. You're not ready for that yet).

Quote from: Somebody

Is there really even any reason for changing it? There is no room for anything else inside of it anyway, and it still does great.

It can always be improved. No matter what design. That for most here is reason enough.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2008, 10:22:54 PM »

As long as you're fighting stock AI you really don't have any incentive to minimize your chassis and maximize efficiency and whatnot. For stock AI, the overloaded piston rammer is a classic and effective design. Once you can beat up the stock AI easily and you start getting bored with them, then you might try getting some better AI and improving your bots.

Cooker · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2008, 11:01:33 PM »

Ohlala. This bot is overloaded.
You can put several weapons on one piston with some extender working. I suggest to use ironspikes they have twice the amount of hitpoints.
I think two pistons with four spikes each, would do for the same effect. So you would need only one big airtank.
You can get rid of two of the black batteries aswell. One is enough for two hp-ztecs. Make the chassis just high enough to fit the z-tecs. Form the chassis airtight around the components. Use shiny hub wheels they are just big enough to get an invertible bot with ztecs (if your chassis has the correct height) but they weight less. If you do all this, your bot will probably end up to be a MW with the same power.

Ah, and btw, yes you have to build your bot again from scrach, if you want to change the chassis size. You will get habit to this. I build most of my bots about fife times, to finally get it the way I want.

Naryar · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2008, 02:44:13 AM »

Oh, and when you build the next chassis, use DSA (double strength alu).

It is a glitch that simply consists of ignoring the armor tab. You don't select on anything when creating a new chassis.
The game puts a default armor that is recognized as aluminium, has the same weight but is actually stronger than steel. It is an important thing to save weight.

To check if there is DSA on a bot, paint it all black and watch it. If the chassis doesn't reflects light then it has DSA.

Venko · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2008, 06:11:56 AM »

And one small advice from me too...
Use JPEG files for your bot pics, not a BMP.
THANKS... :biggrin:

Somebody · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2008, 06:13:31 AM »

I am going to rebuild it and post the new one soon. I know abour all of those glitches like DSA now, but I didn't know about them when I built this bot.
As soon as DSL 2.1 comes out, I'm downloading it, and I probably will get Starcore's at some point too. You should see the rebuild by tomorrow at the most.

Somebody · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:02:45 PM »

Here is my new, tiny Atomic rebuild, it is so different, that I named it Nuclear. It is a middleweight with DSA and it is 5 or 6 pixels high. It has regular Z-tek drive, one small air tank, and one black battery. There are 2 pistons, with 3 spikes on each.

And here is it next to its predecessor, Atomic

I hope that this makes everybody happy:biggrin:

pyscolone · « **Reply #12 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:26:37 PM »

upgrade to HPs and get rid of all the pinks.

Flying_Chao · « **Reply #13 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:32:24 PM »

You have enough weight to upgrade the motors to hp zteks.

Somebody · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:35:05 PM »

There isn't enough room inside the bot for HP-Zteks, the black, back part on them is longer than the regular Z-teks, and I don't know how to stack stuff besides using servos and burst motors

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:41:19 PM »

Get rid of the pinks, use round extenders instead of square,upgrade to HP Z teks, use shiny hubs, and finally add more spikes. You have the weight.

Your getting better.

Somebody · « **Reply #16 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:44:33 PM »

Here is a picture of Nuclear against the best bot (in my opinion) of each weight class.
Berserker:

Tornado:

EMERGENCY:

I beat EMERGENCY with a MW.

Naryar · « **Reply #17 on:** June 20, 2008, 05:26:45 PM »

As SD said, you're better. Beating EMERGENCY with a MW proves it.

Oh, and don't forget to get the minimal chassis height for HP Zteks if you intend to use shinies.

pyscolone · « **Reply #18 on:** June 20, 2008, 05:39:41 PM »

How could HP zteks not fit in there.. how about you TRY.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:20:56 PM »

You definately have enough room for HPZ's. the wheels will just poke out a little. You will find that the increased speed also increases your damage. You also don't need the pink batteries at all. Just take those out. You also have around 50 KG's to play with. Use this weight to add more spikes somewhere or something.