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Robot Arena Matches => Tournaments => Tournament Archives => Topic started by: yugitom on August 07, 2014, 10:46:26 AM
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Considering I just finished a tournament, I don't want to rush straight into another but I do want to know what people on this forum most want in a tournament.
This is a discussion thread for now but may be changed into a tournament thread depending on interest.
I am planning on running an Annihilator type tournament where there will be matches of 4 with people going out one by one (you should know what an Annihilator is.) However, I want some input on what to make the tournament. In other words, the forum will make this tournament, I will just be hosting it. These are the things I want your input on:
Let's build this from the ground up then, judging from votes for each detail.
Rules:
Game type - Stock
Weight class - SHW
Unlimited entrants
1 entry per person
I'll AI if you can't
Building rules:
SHW is up to 1200.0kg
In-game glitches are allowed, apart from hax mode.
Out of game glitches are banned
Cheabot2 is banned
Walker/Crawlers/Shufflers aren't allowed. Multibots can't be used in a 4-way match
You can update you bot as much as you want before signups end
Match rules:
3 minute matches
Arena will be The Octagon with hazards on
One restart due to a havok, two havoks then the robot causing it will be disqualified
Judging will be done by points scored
Entrants:
1. RedAce - Cataclysm
2. Kungfooey242 - SmeshyDerp
3. Thrackerzod - Whirling Disaster 2.0
4. Wacky Bob - Moss Monster
5. 090901 - pomf =3 tank
Red - Problem
Black - Received
Blue - Accepted
Green - AIed
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Stock.
Not CW, SHW, UHW.
No cheatbot2.
Hazards on.
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Stock.
Not CW, SHW, UHW.
No cheatbot2.
Hazards on.
Any arena preference?
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Not exactly, there's too many. :P
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I'm cool with DSL IRL but no AW please, I was gonna have an AW tournament similar to what you plan on doing. For cheatbot2 parts, I was thinking the MOE Motor and the Judge Burst only. Arena? Whatever floats your boat man, I really don't care.
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Stock UHW
Just kidding, I would be more likely to enter if it was Stock/DSL-S SHW. We don't have very many of those around here. I think a good arena is the DSL Tournament arena or RA2T#2 arena, as they both have reasonable walls and equally reasonable hazards. No cheatbot2, though.
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Stock UHW
Just kidding, I would be more likely to enter if it was Stock/DSL-S SHW. We don't have very many of those around here. I think a good arena is the DSL Tournament arena or RA2T#2 arena, as they both have reasonable walls and equally reasonable hazards. No cheatbot2, though.
I tried UHW and it seems SHW would go down the same way. I'll take it into consideration though. I guess SHW is much less heavier than UHW now that I think about it, so I guess more people would join.
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SHW and UHW kills everybody's computers. :P
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DSL-S SHW spinners only in an enclosed arena
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I was joking about Stock UHW, hence why I struck it out and followed with "Just kidding." But I think that Stock/DSL-S SHW in RA2T2 arena, hazards on, no cheatbot2, would be fine. If SHW can't work, then HW would be great.
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I'm really in the mood for a Stock SHW tournament. Probably a hazardless combat zone would work best. Plenty of tournaments have focused on lighter weight classes lately, so it would be fun to turn that around. SHW is big, but not too big.
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I was joking about Stock UHW, hence why I struck it out and followed with "Just kidding." But I think that Stock/DSL-S SHW in RA2T2 arena, hazards on, no cheatbot2, would be fine. If SHW can't work, then HW would be great.
I was comparing it to my UHW tournament, I knew you were joking. A Stock/DSL-S HW tournament in the RA2T2 Arena seems like a good idea.
DSL-S SHW spinners only in an enclosed arena
I don't want to rob you of that ingenious idea, 09. Try making that tournament yourself, ha ha.
I'm really in the mood for a Stock SHW tournament. Probably a hazardless combat zone would work best. Plenty of tournaments have focused on lighter weight classes lately, so it would be fun to turn that around. SHW is big, but not too big.
SHW Stock seems alright.
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DSL-S unrealistic UHW with cheatbot on in the small arena with crawlers allowed.
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Stock UHW in small arena no cheatbot.
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Stock UHW in small arena no cheatbot.
They'll get stuck in the walls then...
'Welcome to havoc fest 2014'
No one will survive...
:dumb)
[on topic]
I will decide later when I'm on my laptop, I can't type very quickly on my phone
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Stock UHW in small arena no cheatbot.
They'll get stuck in the walls then...
'Welcome to havoc fest 2014'
No one will survive...
:dumb)
[on topic]
I will decide later when I'm on my laptop, I can't type very quickly on my phone
It would be quite funny, though.
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Stock LW, AW Tournament with OOTA walls. No cheatbot. No SNS, Popups and HS.
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Stock LW, AW Tournament with OOTA walls. No cheatbot.
That would be cool
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irl axe attack
dsl
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I'll put the most requested types in a poll tomorrow or the day after and see what I'm doing.
Stock LW, AW Tournament with OOTA walls. No cheatbot. No SNS, Popups and HS.
Not a bad idea. I'd prefer LW to AW, especially in stock.
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Stock middleweight battleaxes only
Or Stock Superheavyweight
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battleaxes only
lolwut
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Stock Superheavyweight
Seems to be popular...
battleaxes only
lolwut
I second this 'lolwut'.
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Stock middleweight battleaxes only
+1
stock SHW isn't a bad idea either
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It seems popular now but will people actually build them? Try keep things reliable.
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stock SHW is still a pretty new metagame and interesting.
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It seems popular now but will people actually build them? Try keep things reliable.
This is true. This is why I won't go with it straight away, like I said, I will make a poll tomorrow.
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The concept Tom was going for with No Holds Barred was a pretty new, interesting metagame too Nary.
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The concept Tom was going for with No Holds Barred was a pretty new, interesting metagame too Nary.
Again, very true and I didn't get many entries for that. However, SHW is much lighter than UHW, 3800kg difference in fact. I'm sure people can make a bot 400kg more than usual rather than 4200kg.
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too many lw tournies make it stock hw arena being high dive firepit
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stock SHW is still a pretty new metagame and interesting.
wouldn't it be just stock HW but with 400 more kg ?
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too many lw tournies make it stock hw arena being high dive firepit
I'm not familiar with the arena. It does seem that the majority of people here want a stock tournament and I think I can rule out IRL (I didn't want to do an IRL tournament after F&S 2 anyway.) I'll add one or two DSL-S options to the poll but I won't be surprised if stock wins.
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The concept Tom was going for with No Holds Barred was a pretty new, interesting metagame too Nary.
yes but UHW kills computers
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^this^
UHW are terribly laggy, there was Clash Of The Titans but that's one only one tourney, and he had to ban flails (well, limit them to 4) cause otherwise, just imagine how laggy it would be, plus they take a while to build
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i mean last time i built an UHW it crashed my game due to large amounts of components. And now the bot file is unavailable. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
We should make a 2500kg weightclass for tournaments, I think.
We could also arguably put a hard limit on number of components for UHW building.
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We should make a 2500kg weightclass for tournaments, I think.
There does seem to be a significant difference between SHW and UHW.
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I know there are a lot of options but I want to make this the forum's choice. You get 2 choices, if you want. That's if you can't decide between two meta-games.
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I'll soon reduce the poll size to the top 3/4. I will also put polls up for things like, is cheatbot2 allowed? Are in-game glitches allowed? Etc.
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I've reduced the poll down. If it ends up being stock LW, I may give the option to have several entries per person. If any of the others are more popular, then I may still give the option to have 2 entries per person.
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stock lw ? why ? it's not like you guys hadn't the opportunity to enter a bajilion stock lw's into AS-chan's mega tournament...
and there is another stock LW tourney in preparation IIRC
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stock lw ? why ? it's not like you guys hadn't the opportunity to enter a bajilion stock lw's into AS-chan's mega tournament...
and there is another stock LW tourney in preparation IIRC
I don't think there is. It may go to SHW anyway.
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stock lw ? why ? it's not like you guys hadn't the opportunity to enter a bajilion stock lw's into AS-chan's mega tournament...
and there is another stock LW tourney in preparation IIRC
I don't think there is. It may go to SHW anyway.
RedAce's Trios of Terror.
It will be fun to get people to build more SHWs.
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stock lw ? why ? it's not like you guys hadn't the opportunity to enter a bajilion stock lw's into AS-chan's mega tournament...
and there is another stock LW tourney in preparation IIRC
I don't think there is. It may go to SHW anyway.
RedAce's Trios of Terror.
It will be fun to get people to build more SHWs.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I may go straight for SHW then. I'll give it a tad bit longer than I'll go on to voting for other stuff.
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Stock SHW for me. How many of those kind of tournaments do you see anyway? Exactly.
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Stock SHW for me. How many of those kind of tournaments do you see anyway? Exactly.
It was my intention, when I first joined the forum, to make tournaments that were out of the norm and unique. This SHW Annihilator is not unique as such but, as you said, you would rarely see it.
I have made up my mind, SHW it is. Still worried about the amount of people that will actually join, but whatever.
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Alright, it's officially a SHW tournament (check for more details in the first post.) Make sure to give me feedback on the following things:
What type of bots aren't allowed?
What in-game glitches can/can't be used?
How long will the matches be?
Any arena ideas?
Will it be judged by points or a certain criteria?
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You know it will probably just end up like this:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765)
with 4 entries.
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You know it will probably just end up like this:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765)
with 4 entries.
Well, I'll ask whether people will join at the end. If I get quite a low number, I'll just change the weight class until the majority of people voting want it. If SHW doesn't work, then I'll move it down to LW, like others wanted. We'll give it a chance though, let's see what we can do. Remember, Lightning S. was a fairly new member at the time (I guess so, considering he's still an antweight now) so it may not have had much exposure.
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Lightning S. was a fairly new member at the time (I guess so, considering he's still an antweight now) so it may not have had much exposure.
He had been around a year when he made that and he had hosted a tourney before, they reason why he is an antweight is because for some reason he would delete all his old posts.
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Lightning S. was a fairly new member at the time (I guess so, considering he's still an antweight now) so it may not have had much exposure.
He had been around a year when he made that and he had hosted a tourney before, they reason why he is an antweight is because for some reason he would delete all his old posts.
Oh, I see. Even so, I will give this a go for now.
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Actually your a pretty new member, you've been here for what, 3 months? but yeah it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
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Actually you a pretty new member, you have been here for 3 months, but yeah it wouldn't hurt to try it.
Ha ha, it's true, I am quite new to this. I guess I just grasp things quicker than others, which has allowed me to get to Mega Host in my first 3 months. I guess doing almost nothing but tournaments for my time here helps too.
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Right, I'm back onto this. Let's try and finish the voting stages and be done with the difficult part, which is deciding whether SHW is a good idea or not.
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Don't allow Hax Mode if you are going to allow glitches tho.
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Hax Mode will be banned if glitches are allowed.
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Don't allow Hax Mode if you are going to allow glitches tho.
Yeah, (invincible battery armor time, yesh. :dumb))
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I'll just choose the arena randomly if no one is that bothered. With an arena chosen, that should be the end of rule deciding.
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THE OCTAGON MAN
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
Wait there was a poll for the arena?
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
I want the octagon too.
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
Wait there was a poll for the arena?
Yup, guess you just missed it. Sorry, dude.
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
Wait there was a poll for the arena?
Yup, guess you just missed it. Sorry, dude.
How long was it even open for?
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THE OCTAGON MAN
I just randomly chose the arena in the end, man. If you voted the Octagon then it would've been a three-way tie.
Wait there was a poll for the arena?
Yup, guess you just missed it. Sorry, dude.
How long was it even open for?
Not sure. I doubt it's too big of a deal anyway unless people really hate the arena already chosen or really want a certain arena.
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yeah id like to see the octagon, missed the poll
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Wait there was a poll for the arena? When? Did you open it for more than 5 minutes unlike your other polls?
OCTAGON FOR LIFE. DO THE OCTOCTOCTAGON.
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Octagon it is.
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i disagree with octagon, mostly due to random BS about pits opening.
let's do a KotH arena for once
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i disagree with octagon, mostly due to random BS about pits opening.
let's do a KotH arena for once
idk about you but KOTH arenas are even more BS since bots always seem to get stuck somehow on the ramps or the AI goes full retard
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i disagree with octagon, mostly due to random BS about pits opening.
let's do a KotH arena for once
since bots always seem to get stuck somehow on the ramps or the AI goes full retard
lol this is so true
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how about Infinity arena, so even huge ass bots can fight no problemo ?
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how about Infinity arena, so even huge ass bots can fight no problemo ?
Anyone else want this?
i disagree with octagon, mostly due to random BS about pits opening.
let's do a KotH arena for once
idk about you but KOTH arenas are even more BS since bots always seem to get stuck somehow on the ramps or the AI goes full retard
I agree with 09. However, Naryar brings up a point, does anyone want hazards to be off in The Octagon?
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It aint the octagon unless it has hazards on
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I'll get back on track with this later when I have more time on my hands as I am spending a lot of time with my family at the moment.
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epic showdown
best arena
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epic showdown
best arena
If he uses it for all of the matches it loses some of the epic though. :rage
But yes, I think you should use it for the Finale. (if they fit)
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You could use Taco's new arena if he lets you.
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You could use Taco's new arena if he lets you.
I don't know what that is.
Edit: Oh, the Action Box. Nah, I don't think I'll use it.
epic showdown
I suppose I could use that for the final.
I'm not moving this to signups yet as participation for tournaments in general seems to have died down and I doubt 7/7 people will end up joining this.
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dsl irl
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dsl irl
pls no
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dsl irl
Sorry, IRL is not an option for this tournament.
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I may ask this to go to signups soon but I won't do it in next 4-5 days as I am meeting my family in Birmingham and I'll have to settle with a cr**** laptop if I wanted to do any RA2 stuff.
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Considering I just finished a tournament, I don't want to rush straight into another but I do want to know what people on this forum most want in a tournament.
This is a discussion thread for now but may be changed into a tournament thread depending on interest.
I am planning on running an Annihilator type tournament where there will be matches of 4 with people going out one by one (you should know what an Annihilator is.) However, I want some input on what to make the tournament. In other words, the forum will make this tournament, I will just be hosting it. These are the things I want your input on:
Let's build this rom the ground up then, judging from votes for each detail.
Rules:
Game type - Stock
Weight class - SHW
Unlimited entrants
1 entry per person
I'll AI if you can't
Building rules:
SHW is up to 1200.0kg
In-game glitches are allowed, apart from hax mode.
Out of game glitches are banned
Cheabot2 is banned
Walker/Crawlers/Shufflers aren't allowed. Multibots can't be used in a 4-way match
You can update you bot as much as you want before signups end close
Match rules:
3 minute matches
Arena will be The Octagon with hazards on
One restart due to a havok, two havoks then the robot causing it will be disqualified
Judging will be done by points scored
Hopefully this gains significant interest. You don't have to cover all bases but it would be cool and would contribute to the discussion if you covered at least one.
This is now a signups thread and the rules above may not change. As a Major League host you have 1 year to complete this tournament. Enjoy :)
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Thanks, Craaig. You guys have 11 months to enter. No rush, ha ha.
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RedAce's bot received.
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Hello, I'm new to Robot Arena 2 tournaments, but I'm definitely not new to the game. Can someone please tell me how to sign up for tournaments and how to submit bots? Thanks.
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There should be a tutorial somewhere about that shouldnt there? I'll look and see if I can dig it up for you.
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Thanks, m8.
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Are you still there dude? Did you find the tutorial?
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Why is this discussion here? Anyway, just upload your bot on the bot exchange and send the host a pm with the link to it.
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Don't think we have a tutorial, but I just made one. Just for you.
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=17179 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=17179)
Basically yugitom's method expanded :)
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Thanks dude, you're awesome. :smile:
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Oh yeah host, sorry if im kinda spamming the discussion. Anyways, I plan to pm my bot to you tomorrow but i want u to know that i have no idea to ai, so can you please ai it to grog the warrior? And also, it has 2 pressure cylinders that shoot out metal points, so, if you can, please ai those 2 cylinders. Thanks!
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Don't worry about it, Yugitom knows what he's doing. You're all set.
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Don't worry about it, Yugitom knows what he's doing. You're all set.
Ha ha, and Badnik knows what he's talking about. Thanks, mate.
Anyway, I'll be sure to AI your bot correctly once I have the time, you can count on that. (And yours, RedAce, I seriously haven't had chance.)
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(And yours, RedAce, I seriously haven't had chance.)
Actually that's a good thing you didn't. I just checked the AI line, and I screwed up the AI it needs to use. I'll send a new one that actually works this time. :dumb)
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Alright, thanks.
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RedAce is accepted. Kun's bot is not SHW, so it is rejected. You are welcome to re-enter it as a SHW or another SHW bot. I'll add RedAce's AI line to his bot in a little bit when I have some more free time.
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Oh yah, the stock doesn't allow any weight above 799.9, so how do i get to 800 and above?
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Is the sergepatcher Unlimited Mass Mod allowed for this tournament? Or is there a different was to exceed 800kg?
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There are antiballasts custom components out there. Simply download one and attach it to your bot, if its -400kg then build to the HW weight limit with it on, and then remove when you are done. You have to remove it when you are done!
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was so hyped about this then i relised it was a tournament; i thought we was going to annihilate one forum member of choice
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RedAce, Kungfooey242 and Thrackerzod have been received, accepted and AIed.
I know you guys have ages but I'm getting a tad bored now, could you please make a bot for this (or, if you're lazy, send in an already done SHW.) I should have at least 9 more entries at this point.
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What's max weight for SHW?
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1200kgs.
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Wacky Bob received, accepted and AIed. playzooki rejected due to not being a SHW.
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When do you plan to start the tournaments?
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Either when I am satisfied with the amount of entrants or about a month or two before the deadline.
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Alright, I better bump this for interest so I don't end up leaving it too late. Also, I have other stuff to do, so let's get this out the way. C'mon, guys.
*Edit* Also, starting from now, the tournament will accept no more entries 7 days after the last entry (today as of now). So, the deadline is the 20th unless someone sends in a bot, then the timer is reset. I don't mind hosting a 4 bot tournament but it will be a bit of a let down.
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Alright, due to the clear disinterest in this tournament, I am going to close signups when I wake up tomorrow and I'll quickly finish this tournament (may as well have been a challenge, to be fair.) I'll make the video interesting for what it is worth, though. What can I say? I was warned:
You know it will probably just end up like this:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=14291.msg598765#msg598765)
with 4 entries.
Ha ha, Mech, you called it.
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090901 has been received, accepted, AIed and signups are closed.