Author Topic: Somebody's Showcase (Read 51202 times)

Pwnator · « **Reply #340 on:** July 22, 2009, 07:51:15 AM »

WAHAHAHAHA. >:)

Now add some weapons. :P

Somebody · « **Reply #341 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:02:37 AM »

lets hope it still works without some ballasts...

Somebody · « **Reply #342 on:** July 22, 2009, 09:45:38 AM »

Added some weapons, but it was never meant to be a real serious bot

Now you may remember what Clickbeetle said along time ago, which is that when wheels turn, the only propulsion that actually happens is just pushing the chassis forwards, which is why wedges on a tipped up chassis suck.

So I figured that a tipped down chassis would have good wedges.

It has good wedges, but it is just too fragile to be good. I want to see other people try this, because I think that it could be a good, worthwhile bot.

somestrangeguy · « **Reply #343 on:** July 22, 2009, 09:56:10 AM »

Yep, I made a wedge similiar to that last one for Make A Bot Using Dice, too fragile to be good, but definetly good wedge.

System32 · « **Reply #344 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:21:30 AM »

Yeah, that super wedged popup really is Starcore material!

Urjak · « **Reply #345 on:** July 22, 2009, 12:09:20 PM »

Sarcastic?

Somebody · « **Reply #346 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:19:39 PM »

I don't know, it pwns 321 Blastoff...

Reier · « **Reply #347 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:21:17 PM »

It's a little on the ugly side, sorry.

System32 · « **Reply #348 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:44:08 PM »

I was talking about that uber wedgy bot with ballasts. I'll be good for wedge testing..

Urjak · « **Reply #349 on:** July 22, 2009, 03:06:48 PM »

Very true.... it would be nice to test on as you said.

Somebody · « **Reply #350 on:** July 22, 2009, 03:21:13 PM »

Do you guys think I should send it to starcore as a wedge tester?

Urjak · « **Reply #351 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:19:47 PM »

Why not?

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #352 on:** July 23, 2009, 03:04:44 PM »

Don't. Sage did this a while ago. It was better and looks a

of a lot nicer.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #353 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:01:08 PM »

This must be why Insult to Injury does so well with just a chassis wedge. It has about 5 Supervolts or something (which affect weight distribution just like ballasts) as well as regular ballasts in the front of the wedge.

I never thought I'd hear the words "ballasts" and "useful" in the same sentence, but if you can make a bot that gets under NWB every time... ballasts may finally become useful.

R1885 · « **Reply #354 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:05:43 PM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle;54267

This must be why Insult to Injury does so well with just a chassis wedge. It has about 5 Supervolts or something (which affect weight distribution just like ballasts) as well as regular ballasts in the front of the wedge.

Holly crap.

Urjak · « **Reply #355 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:18:50 PM »

Problem is, the more weight devoted to a wedge, the more vulnerable you become to bots which don't use wedges, like SnS and such...

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #356 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:29:49 PM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle;54267

This must be why Insult to Injury does so well with just a chassis wedge. It has about 5 Supervolts or something (which affect weight distribution just like ballasts) as well as regular ballasts in the front of the wedge.

I could have sworn I heard the complete opposite. On the old forums I remember someone said that batteries don't effect weight distibution at all.

kill343gs · « **Reply #357 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:44:07 PM »

Thats with ballasts in the front.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #358 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:59:26 PM »

Quote from: Scrap Daddy;54277

I could have sworn I heard the complete opposite. On the old forums I remember someone said that batteries don't effect weight distibution at all.

Build a long hot dog chassis with 2 slim wheels in the middle, like a seesaw. Put batteries in one end and see what happens compared to a balanced setup.

Also, I gotta try making a good ballast wedge bot.

infiniteinertia · « **Reply #359 on:** July 24, 2009, 11:40:35 AM »

*Credit to Sage*...

He was the first one to say all of this.