BattleBots: Season 2

[Vertigo]

Pretty sure I can still enter this, though still a flipper:

[SteveM4]

Another forward flipper!

[Badnik96]

meh

my bot is awesome, that's all I'm saying

[123savethewhales]

I think this is realistic enough for this?



I would suggest the tread bonus be lowered to 60kg.  With 100kg bonus Heavy Tread will only cost 10kg each.  Which is really broken with it's 1.5 tracking and 12000 HP.  And can you be a bit more specific about the difference between crawlers and walkers?  Either way I think 800kg is too much since that is like a free drive system plus 600kg worth to build the rest of the bot with.  600kg will be more sensible.

[Thyrus]

I guess we have a wiener :D

[GroudonRobotWars]

I was entering a horizontal spinner this time, so I am safe from the rules.

[dragonsteincole]

You've basically banned flippers.


Great thing i was planning on entering a flipper.

Thanks a lot.

He's basically not, and I basically worded those two suggested rules so that: a) it gets rid of completely horizontal wedges that don't exist in real life due to floors never being perfectly even. And b) it prevents replacing hinges with burst motors that have no other function than to make a wedge, as is the case in unrealistic Stock and DSL designs. Flippers are still valid, a good builder will still be able to make an effective flipper.

[SKBT]

Do not violate the spirit of the competition or you will be disqualified. Remember that your robot will be voted into the competition based on how realistic it looks.

[ty4er]

Do not violate the spirit of the competition or you will be disqualified. Remember that your robot will be voted into the competition based on how realistic it looks.

can't we do that for wedges instead of just banning them altogether?

[Vertigo]

Do not violate the spirit of the competition or you will be disqualified. Remember that your robot will be voted into the competition based on how realistic it looks.

Not too sure how that would work, considering he can only accept 16 entries, and then he eliminates some by vote

So what will this become? An 8-bot tourney?

[123savethewhales]

I think it's any amount can enter, but only 16 can be voted in.

[Vertigo]

But I believe he's only allowed 16 entrants

?

[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.

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

So you're saying Hitler was a relative of the current royal heratige of South Sudan?

[Preytor_4]

But I believe he's only allowed 16 entrants

?

He's only allowed to have 16 entrants in the actual tournament. So really he can accept as many as he wants but only 16 will make it in.

[freeziez]

But I believe he's only allowed 16 entrants

?

Hold on, I'll PM Joe.

Do not violate the spirit of the competition or you will be disqualified. Remember that your robot will be voted into the competition based on how realistic it looks.

can't we do that for wedges instead of just banning them altogether?

I think you guys are taking this too seriously, just sit back and let the tournament go on.

[Jack Daniels]

But I believe he's only allowed 16 entrants

?

He's only allowed to have 16 entrants in the actual tournament. So really he can accept as many as he wants but only 16 will make it in.

That sounds about right.

Edit: If I can't get my arse motivated... i am entering El Chupacabra.  :P

[123savethewhales]

- Bots with treads get a 100 kg weight cushion.

Am I the only one who see a problem in this rule?

[freeziez]

- Bots with treads get a 100 kg weight cushion.

Am I the only one who see a problem in this rule?

Fixed, I hope it's better now.

[123savethewhales]

Thanks.  30kg per Heavy Tread and 10kg per Light Tread seem rightly priced.  This is assuming that the IRL rules prevent people from using static tread as armor of course.

[Jack Daniels]

Thanks.  30kg per Heavy Tread and 10kg per Light Tread seem rightly priced.  This is assuming that the IRL rules prevent people from using static tread as armor of course.

If someone uses treads as armor for this tourney they will likely get voted off the island anyways.