Author Topic: The Stock Showcase of The Ounce (Read 28700 times)

Reier · « **Reply #140 on:** October 08, 2009, 09:00:52 PM »

Quote from: Sage;71392

Dunno. Inf asked me to quote him on this showcase.

Let infy post himself. He wants to be on, he's just making a scene.

Sage · « **Reply #141 on:** October 08, 2009, 09:03:06 PM »

For now I'll respect his wishes. You just go and enjoy his AI pack.

The Ounce · « **Reply #142 on:** October 10, 2009, 06:41:24 PM »

Rebuilt my 8-ramplate popup, because I found that the wedges sucked (ramplates were hitting the ground, dunno why I didn't notice it before :P).

Main changes: Longer wedges, 8 razors, better side protection (not by much though), and better space management.

I'm definitely happy that the wedges are better. Managed to do this in its first AI test:

And in the test afterward, this:

Wedges don't do well in head-on first charges, though. And I should mention that those matches were 2 mins in length, for a little simulation.

Sage · « **Reply #143 on:** October 10, 2009, 06:49:11 PM »

Nice attempt on changing the skin a bit...

bot is too skinny. but well built.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #144 on:** October 10, 2009, 06:50:47 PM »

wow...

Pwnator · « **Reply #145 on:** October 10, 2009, 11:28:09 PM »

Waaaaay better than my Supernova 2. Awesome job. XD

JoeBlo · « **Reply #146 on:** October 10, 2009, 11:57:24 PM »

those 2 matches must have been mirror images of each other.. both ended at the same time on the clock

The Ounce · « **Reply #147 on:** October 11, 2009, 12:05:20 AM »

Quote from: JoeBlo;71832

those 2 matches must have been mirror images of each other.. both ended at the same time on the clock

Except that Seism 13 had one wedge left in the 1st and neither in the second; the blades cut the extenders off! XD

The Ounce · « **Reply #148 on:** October 13, 2009, 09:25:02 PM »

A blatant rip off of 2 better robots, sorry for the poor cropping on this one, because it's rather large:

Velvet Revolution

2 blacks, 220cm (I think) wedges, DSA, 4 plows on a crappy extender setup.

Main problems are that it's rather slim, the plow placement sucks (you can already see that, though), and it needs a skin (I can't just keep using others' skins, I need to create my own thing), though not as much.

Sage · « **Reply #149 on:** October 13, 2009, 10:16:04 PM »

Interesting design. You could fix the problems that you already caught, and then I can give you nitpickety advice.

System32 · « **Reply #150 on:** October 14, 2009, 07:52:11 AM »

The plow placement reminds me of butterflies. So does the name.

AH HA! Butterfly skin! Oh, and turn the plows into feeders.

The Ounce · « **Reply #151 on:** November 01, 2009, 02:15:02 PM »

It's November 1st, the day I first started playing RA2, so I thought I'd dig up something to show you, I was very lucky to have found it:

This is Thunderbird, the very first bot I made in RA2. It was actually an attempt to replicate something I made with legos a looooooooooooooong time ago.

And this is the new version of VR. When I first made this bot, I tried not to make it look too much like Heaven's Sawmill, for this version, I failed completely. 798.9 kgs.

This version managed to fix the problems I mentioned earlier, but now I have another problem: the wedges suck a**! I honestly don't know how they're so bad, let alone how to fix them. *cries*

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #152 on:** November 01, 2009, 02:30:50 PM »

there might be too much weight toward the back of the bot... making the front wedges too light to be effective. How heavy is the bot? do you have weight to spare?

The Ounce · « **Reply #153 on:** November 01, 2009, 02:34:27 PM »

Whoops, I can't believe I forgot to mention the weight :P. 798.9 kgs.

Sage · « **Reply #154 on:** November 01, 2009, 03:02:04 PM »

What JD said about the wedges is true.

Nice try using the actuators though. It's a cool idea.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #155 on:** November 06, 2009, 11:18:19 PM »

Whoa, it's like Seism 13 and Heaven's Sawmill had an illegitimate child. You could call it Seism Sawmill. Or Heaven's 13. Or maybe not.

One obvious problem with the wedges: the plows will snag on bots and keep them from sliding up beyond the small wedges. Look at how I angled the plows on Heaven's Sawmill. I did that for a reason; the collision on the plows lines up almost perfectly with the collision of the wedges, and the raised "lip" on the plows is angled outward, so bots will hit the flat side and not the sharp edge when being scooped.

Weapon suggestion: those side razors on the discs are doing almost no good. You would be much better off using 6 iron spikes per disc instead; use an extender to make the extra irons align with the other 4, like I did on my bots.

Edit: Oh wait, you're running into the 7 part limit if you do that. That was why I had to use a tall chassis on Heaven's Sawmill. Maybe you can use blades?

The Ounce · « **Reply #156 on:** December 28, 2009, 04:29:16 PM »

Wow, it's been a long time since I last touched stock. Anyway, I've always wanted to make something like this:

L. Pardinus

One Supervolt (stacked with CB), 32 maces, DSA, the rest you can see.

It sometimes drifts while accelerating, and shakes due to the piston glitch, but it doesn't affect it too much. Otherwise, it can be very destructive:

Beat AC on the first try :D. Took a while to beat BEAR though; the only way to beat it was to jam the spinners and let the side maces break the extenders while pushing it around. Had some trouble beating Barrier, too, because it kept havoking out of the arena when its pistons lost all of their weapons. While trying to beat it, though, I managed to get this:

Yup, 13822-point hit. Point totals included for legitimacy, but I don't know how it compares to others' records.

System32 · « **Reply #157 on:** December 28, 2009, 06:53:08 PM »

look closer, a 13 and a 822, sorry.

Virus Bomb · « **Reply #158 on:** December 28, 2009, 07:02:08 PM »

I'm guessing the setup I used on my 36iron inspired your setup lol. It looks nice, I always wanted to do a piston mace rammer.

Sage · « **Reply #159 on:** December 28, 2009, 07:27:11 PM »

I actually like this bot. Very original setup.