BattleBots: Season 2

[Badnik96]

oh yeah let's roll man

[System32]

For the record US featherweight shell spinne Steel Shadow has at least 12 impact teeth, Phrizbee and Megabyte both had large amounts of small teeth. IMHO it's more unrealistic to have two 70kg hammers than a large amount of small DS teeth.

Phrizbee grinded. Megabyte didn't look like a sawblade.
IMHO you are wrong. Dog Collar shell spinners are unrealisitic from a fundamental physical point. Each weapon does damage, and each weapon has knockback. With RA2 physics, it's like having a swarm of bees attacking, and each sting is a knife wound in terms of damage. It's illogical. at least a Weight on the end of a spinning thing is a tried and tested method IRL.
tl;dr Dog Collar SS should grind but they don't due to physics = unrealistic.

[Scrap Daddy]

ban metal hinges used for wedges.

[Urjak]

ban metal hinges used for wedges.

^This^

Heck, we should probably ban all wedges except for axle wedges.

[G.K.]

Static also?

[Urjak]

Static also?

Good point. Ban skirt, burst (unless for a flipper I guess) and metal hinge wedges only

[MikeNCR]

I think the skirt hinge is pretty legitimate for bots like the one on the right in this pic-





Plus, skirt hinge wedges are pretty bad compared to axel wedges

[ty4er]

So basically get rid of proper flippers...

D:

[nicsan2009]

I might enter if I have time

[Preytor_4]

Static also?

Good point. Ban skirt, burst (unless for a flipper I guess) and metal hinge wedges only

I would say no, but it's up to freez

[NFX]

I think the skirt hinge should only be used on the sides of the bot. In a similar way to what the later versions of Panic Attack, Series 4 and onward. If you tried using such a wedge on the front of your bot, then it'd just get caught in the arena, and become damaged.

[MikeNCR]

I think the skirt hinge should only be used on the sides of the bot. In a similar way to what the later versions of Panic Attack, Series 4 and onward. If you tried using such a wedge on the front of your bot, then it'd just get caught in the arena, and become damaged.

The skirt hinge lets do you exactly what Biohazard did, set a skirt at an angle and prevent it from flexing below a certain point(hard stops)

[dragonsteincole]

My two cents on this discussion would be to add two rules, which may help with this tournament, and overall might help define 'IRL' building in Robot Arena 2.

- No skirt hinge/metal hinge may be attached at baseplate level - i.e the component must be raised off the baseplate.
- Any flipping device attached to a burst motor is to be used only for flipping/self-righting purposes.

First negates using them for wedges whilst still allowing them to be used for side skirts, much like Biohazard/Panic Attack/MikeNCR's demonstrated bots. And the second still allows the use of metal skirts, but they must be functional to the robot.

[Conraaa]

- Any burst motor is to be used only for flipping/self-righting purposes.

What about hammers?

[dragonsteincole]

- Any burst motor is to be used only for flipping/self-righting purposes.

What about hammers?

I apologise, i've appended my post to make it clear I meant flipping devices (Skirts, wedges, flippermaker parts). Thank you for noticing that.

[Thyrus]

so with skirthinges banned Ryu-Kishin is not allowed in a other BB tourney?

[Badnik96]

For the record US featherweight shell spinne Steel Shadow has at least 12 impact teeth, Phrizbee and Megabyte both had large amounts of small teeth. IMHO it's more unrealistic to have two 70kg hammers than a large amount of small DS teeth.

Phrizbee grinded. Megabyte didn't look like a sawblade.
IMHO you are wrong. Dog Collar shell spinners are unrealisitic from a fundamental physical point. Each weapon does damage, and each weapon has knockback. With RA2 physics, it's like having a swarm of bees attacking, and each sting is a knife wound in terms of damage. It's illogical. at least a Weight on the end of a spinning thing is a tried and tested method IRL.
tl;dr Dog Collar SS should grind but they don't due to physics = unrealistic.

So you're saying the game itself doesn't follow the rules and thus every bot entered into this should be banned?

[freeziez]

This is my tournament, I'll run it how I want to. I'll update the first page and those will be the final rules.

[Vertigo]

Axle wedges definitely shouldn't be banned, I've got one on my own robot

[ty4er]

You've basically banned flippers.


Great thing i was planning on entering a flipper.

Thanks a lot.