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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2014, 01:16:21 PM »
Those discs are a little too large. Making them smaller would help save weight.
Also, why is there a base anchor with extender with nothing to do? If there is something the bot does not need, delete it.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2014, 03:01:39 PM »
The anchor/extender is there because I still had 6 kgs and felt like doing something dumb.

I'll shrink the discs and see if that lets me actually put something useful instead.

EDIT:  I shrunk the discs one size, and that gave me enough weight to put these big ol' sticks on the sides:



They kinda help solve some of the balance issues.
« Last Edit: August 24, 2014, 03:22:32 PM by Thrackerzod »

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2014, 06:06:00 PM »
if you're gonna use discs that big you might as well drop to 2wd because 4wd doesn't really complement that type of weaponry imo.

you can either add protection for your weapon motors or rotate the weapon motors 180 degrees so that the discs are on the outside. find a way to mount the ramplates on separate anchors and the bot needs to be wider in general for more stability.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2014, 11:44:24 AM »
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2014, 12:14:45 PM »
needs a lot more weapons, you should downgrade it to 3WD and 3 pistons, also a nifty will be enough for 3WD

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2014, 01:15:20 PM »
It's never going to win a battle and it's so incredibly underweaponed, but still I really like the look of this robot.

So symmetrical and mmm...

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2014, 07:10:28 PM »
I seriously doubt that this is what y'all had in mind:



ALSO: If I put a nifty in, where do I put the control board?

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #27 on: September 01, 2014, 05:02:06 AM »
If I put a nifty in, where do I put the control board?

Stack the control board in the nifty.
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #28 on: September 01, 2014, 11:11:22 AM »
Continuing the trend of getting more ridiculous in weaponry.
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2014, 01:20:39 PM »
rotate the irons so they all hit at once. the way it is now is useless.  the extenders will break way before the two inside irons will become any use.
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #30 on: September 01, 2014, 01:27:18 PM »


This looks normal.

I'm pretty sure the wheels don't touch the ground at all, but the game doesn't seem to care.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #31 on: September 02, 2014, 04:18:49 AM »
It is 100% normal. Well, normal for a trinity bot...

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #32 on: September 07, 2014, 04:03:07 AM »


It was three in the morning, I have no idea.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2014, 01:44:27 PM »
wat

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #34 on: September 08, 2014, 02:03:01 AM »
It's... Original

It looks to me a wammer/popup hybrid, just without any offence in the bracket wedges, it looks awesome

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #35 on: September 08, 2014, 03:11:24 AM »
it isn't an hybrid, well you could call it a weaponed flipper/popup hybrid (maybe) but that would be very borderline, even though it would be only that if the BSG's flipped.

it's just a popup with a juggler-like trapping mechanism

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2014, 04:34:54 AM »
The two outer motors would only flip in the case of being upside down, since they aren't powerful enough to actually flip another robot.

The chassis is actually thin enough that some other robots will get marooned on it, and not have any wheels touching the ground.  It's pretty fantastic.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2014, 06:05:54 PM »

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #38 on: September 09, 2014, 04:54:45 AM »
BSG's
You play too much DSL.  :gawe:
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #39 on: September 09, 2014, 07:27:08 PM »
Just use two BA's so you don't have to deal with that absolute clusterfug of an extender setup  :rage
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