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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #60 on: December 11, 2014, 08:36:04 PM »
Hate to tell you, but there are HW's with as much weapons as your SHW.

More drive less weapon motors and batteries. You only need 2 blacks maximum for this.
How you make Alarm Clock Pizza is:
Step 1: You buy an alarm clock from the store, and then you have to break it and put it in the sauce.
Step 2: Fold the sauce in 5 slices and put it in the dough.
Step 3: Paint the eggs with a pitcher of a clock showing what time you want to wake up and eat pizza for breakfast.
Step 4: Put the eggs in the dough.
Step 5: Make it flat into a round shape and draw the time you want on it.
Step 6: Put some old steel to prevent other peple from stealing it.
Step 7: Make it flat and cut into 60 slices 1 for each minute in 1 our.
Step 8: Put in the oven set the timer to 30048813.2884 seconds and put the temperature on 'Volcano' setting.
Step 9: If you think it is take to long, then get yor alarm clock and set it to now so that it will ring and you can take it out.
Step 10: Take it out uv the uvin wen it is redy and go to bed. In the morning eat pizza and also eat yor hands bi mistake.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #61 on: January 29, 2015, 04:37:03 PM »
Boring rambot 2k15:



I could stack another black in there, but it's a pain.  Also I should do something with Whirling Disaster.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #62 on: January 29, 2015, 05:21:53 PM »
Go with shiny hubs and load up with more weapons.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #63 on: January 29, 2015, 05:42:56 PM »
I had shiny hubs on and it was having some issues when driving inverted.  Not sure why.  I'll try it again though.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #64 on: January 29, 2015, 06:45:07 PM »
I had shiny hubs on and it was having some issues when driving inverted.  Not sure why.  I'll try it again though.

Press F12 and check the collision models on your T-brackets.  The T-brackets have a broken collision model (that floats outside of the actual model), and depending on how your top one is rotated it might be jutting out and acting like a caster when you're inverted.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2015, 02:28:06 PM »


I fiddled with the T connector but it didn't seem to fix anything.  Ah well, got more spikes on there, at least.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #66 on: February 15, 2015, 08:44:59 PM »
New robot for y'all.  This one comes in two flavors.

VS, which is what I set out to make originally:

(I need to shorten those front chassis wedges...)

And a popup, which I threw together because I could:

(That's 5 razors stacked together there.)

Which of these designs, if either, should I pursue?

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #67 on: February 15, 2015, 08:52:29 PM »
I think you pulled the popup off better. Try using several 20cms on the wedges of the VS instead of one long extender. The wedges will be longer for the same weight.
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #68 on: February 15, 2015, 08:54:34 PM »
I don't see why you aren't using the other APs on the disc, then you only need 4 extenders which will save you 8kgs into make the wedges longer.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #69 on: February 15, 2015, 09:27:48 PM »
For the VS, I'd recommend spinning the motor counterclockwise a little, it protects the motor better AND allows the use of more attachment points.

For the pop-up, you need something to keep other bots from flying over, a few spikes or an extension of the upper wedge will keep bots in a prime position to gut rip. You might also want to think about switching to rubbers to improve the wedges further.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #70 on: February 15, 2015, 09:32:40 PM »
I think you pulled the popup off better. Try using several 20cms on the wedges of the VS instead of one long extender. The wedges will be longer for the same weight.

Will do.

I don't see why you aren't using the other APs on the disc, then you only need 4 extenders which will save you 8kgs into make the wedges longer.

They point the wrong way.

For the VS, I'd recommend spinning the motor counterclockwise a little, it protects the motor better AND allows the use of more attachment points.

For the pop-up, you need something to keep other bots from flying over, a few spikes or an extension of the upper wedge will keep bots in a prime position to gut rip. You might also want to think about switching to rubbers to improve the wedges further.

Will try.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #71 on: February 15, 2015, 09:55:37 PM »
Popup has too many spikes for how long the weapon is. You're going to be lucky if that does more than 300 damage. You only need 3 or 4 razors on a snapper2.

Rubbers over shinies really aren't a huge concern at all. In fact, I only use them over shinies if it enables invertability for a HS or if I literally cannot use the weight in another way.

Consider using snapperII wedges for the VS and making it much wider.
How you make Alarm Clock Pizza is:
Step 1: You buy an alarm clock from the store, and then you have to break it and put it in the sauce.
Step 2: Fold the sauce in 5 slices and put it in the dough.
Step 3: Paint the eggs with a pitcher of a clock showing what time you want to wake up and eat pizza for breakfast.
Step 4: Put the eggs in the dough.
Step 5: Make it flat into a round shape and draw the time you want on it.
Step 6: Put some old steel to prevent other peple from stealing it.
Step 7: Make it flat and cut into 60 slices 1 for each minute in 1 our.
Step 8: Put in the oven set the timer to 30048813.2884 seconds and put the temperature on 'Volcano' setting.
Step 9: If you think it is take to long, then get yor alarm clock and set it to now so that it will ring and you can take it out.
Step 10: Take it out uv the uvin wen it is redy and go to bed. In the morning eat pizza and also eat yor hands bi mistake.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #72 on: February 16, 2015, 07:30:07 PM »
Went for the popup first since I liked it more:



I used multiple extenders for the wedges and added the Emergency wedge as a catcher thingy.  I also downgraded to only 3 razors, it seems to do about the same damage as it did with 5.

How do I get smartzones in stock?

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #73 on: February 17, 2015, 10:11:15 AM »
One day is long enough for a DP right?

Here's the VS:



Before you ask "WHY THERE IS BALLAST?", this robot is really really bouncy, so I stuffed a ballast in there, and that fixed the issue.

At least I don't need smartzones to AI this one.  I'm gonna work on the skin now, since they have the same chassis, it won't matter which design I actually go with.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #74 on: February 17, 2015, 10:38:19 AM »
How do I get smartzones in stock?
http://madiaba.gametechmods.com/Smart_Zones_v3.rar

Not really sure how to improve either of them, but did you check to make sure the VS doesn't have AGOD?
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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #75 on: February 17, 2015, 12:14:11 PM »
VS looks to be AGOD-free.  Thanks for the link, by the way.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #76 on: February 17, 2015, 05:19:54 PM »
Maybe instead of a ballast you could put a ram plate in the chassis gap. It should weigh down the same spot.

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #77 on: February 17, 2015, 05:32:36 PM »
That's a good thought, but I think it'd be too heavy.  I'd have to sacrifice some irons or something.
« Last Edit: February 17, 2015, 06:18:36 PM by Thrackerzod »

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #78 on: February 18, 2015, 01:23:51 PM »
12 years of Robot Arena 2.  Wow.



I think that's a fitting tribute.  Here's the robots, if you were wondering:



I worked really hard on this.

EDIT: I AI'd them and had a fight just for the heck of it.
« Last Edit: February 18, 2015, 02:05:36 PM by Thrackerzod »

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Re: Thrackerbots
« Reply #79 on: May 03, 2015, 08:00:19 PM »
Here's the thing I made for the thing:



I thought it was really good until I saw the other entries.