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Cherry Bomb Classic - Discussion; Update: 7/21/16 - deadline, rules, and house bots/arenas!
Topic Started: Jul 3 2016, 11:41 PM (10,740 Views)
The Monsterworks
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HotDealsInTexas
Jul 6 2016, 01:15 AM
Oh geez...

Monsterworks, can you please change the walker bonus to +4? Everybody's entering eldritch horrors in this.

On a related note, I'm gonna have to step up my "obnoxious troll robot" game here.
I might have to. If I see more than 4 eldritch horrors, then that'll be the way that I go. ATM, I feel as if two of the three entered are still easily beatable due to their unidirectional weaponry and 'meh' drive trains. I'm also designing arenas that are not necessarily favourable to bots that prioritize weapon heavily over drive train.

Whether or not walkers get nerfed, the slitherer bonus will remain at 6 for now since they're highly experimental. If they prove unbalanced, I have a custom stat system for them that I'll suggest we employ in future tournaments. With a few adjustments, it might also be viable for walkers.

On a related note, yes please. Enter something absurd.
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Wolf51-50
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
Honestly HotDealsInTexas, I've been working on this design for a while. And even with extra points, walkers have weaknesses all on their own. If you're willing to take those risks, then let's see a walking troll this time around.
Btw, stupid question but I've been meaning to ask, why the username?
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Team Lineup has been posted in it's entirety with stats and pics, may be subject to change if i come up with cooler or scarier designs over time
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That Kode Guy
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Wolf51-50, please post in the Discussion thread instead of the sign-ups. Since I cannot move your post, I had to delete it.

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Team Covenant stuff
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Wolf51-50
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
Got it
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Wolf51-50
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
Hey Mystic, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that a walker's speed can go over 5 points
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Current Tournaments:

Ruination 4: The Upheaval
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HW: Coup de Grâce 1-1 (Lifetime 12-4)[currently reining HW CHAMPION]
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Mystic2000
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oh... i honestly didn't remembered that, but i guess i'll fix it
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The Monsterworks
Jul 6 2016, 05:49 AM
I might have to. If I see more than 4 eldritch horrors

Muhahahahaha
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"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
Calm down. He said that 2 of the 3 had bad drivetrains so there's only 1 atm
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Reckoning: Revival

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Current Tournaments:

Ruination 4: The Upheaval
LW: White Lightning 0-2 (Lifetime 3-5)
MW: Diablo Genesis 0-2(Lifetime 5-2)
HW: Coup de Grâce 1-1 (Lifetime 12-4)[currently reining HW CHAMPION]
SHW: Fenrir 2-0 (Lifetime 2-1)


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muhahahaha
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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Wolf51-50
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
No. You will not troll the walkers in this competition. If you do, I will bring a complete trollbot next year
Alpha Robotics- Embrace the Carnage!

Upcoming tournaments
Reckoning: Revival

Vovoka 0-0 (Lifetime 6-2)

Current Tournaments:

Ruination 4: The Upheaval
LW: White Lightning 0-2 (Lifetime 3-5)
MW: Diablo Genesis 0-2(Lifetime 5-2)
HW: Coup de Grâce 1-1 (Lifetime 12-4)[currently reining HW CHAMPION]
SHW: Fenrir 2-0 (Lifetime 2-1)


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Wolf51-50
Jul 6 2016, 04:40 PM
No. You will not troll the walkers in this competition. If you do, I will bring a complete trollbot next year
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muhahahaha
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
*immediately begins to make trollbot while glaring at AngryGoat and NFX*

This year and next year's tournaments are going to be blown to shits :rofl: :v:

Btw, I think I overdid the design for Showbots. I made a freaking smotherbot!
Edited by Wolf51-50, Jul 6 2016, 09:09 PM.
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Upcoming tournaments
Reckoning: Revival

Vovoka 0-0 (Lifetime 6-2)

Current Tournaments:

Ruination 4: The Upheaval
LW: White Lightning 0-2 (Lifetime 3-5)
MW: Diablo Genesis 0-2(Lifetime 5-2)
HW: Coup de Grâce 1-1 (Lifetime 12-4)[currently reining HW CHAMPION]
SHW: Fenrir 2-0 (Lifetime 2-1)


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Question: would robots with a drive mechanism that uses two independent and noncontinuous planes of motion (i.e. running the motor continuously will not make the robot move or spin continuously), but uses gyroscopic forces or torque from a spinning weapon for some part of attitude control or motion qualify for the walker bonus?
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I believe you just explained Wreks in the most complicated way possible, and I think the answer to that would be no then, since it is movement by gyroscopic procession.

Cha0s Ferret disagrees with me though, so probably best to have Monsterworks have the final say here :P
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Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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If you mean something like Wrecks from Battlebots, then I would have thought it was a walker myself. There's a smaller bot in around the 3lb class somewhere with a similar system, but its name escapes me at the moment, I think Badnik showed us a video of it at some stage.
Edited by NFX, Jul 6 2016, 10:02 PM.
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Braveheart / Crash Blossom / Depth Charge / Broken Ghost / Murder Death Unit / Agent X

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MiDAS - 12 pts

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gyrobot - same guys who made wreks IIRC
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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Wrecks only had one non-weapon motion plane, though.
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The Monsterworks
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Goddammit, you're gonna make me have to come up with rules for this, since there's definitely nothing in the ARC rules. So this is what I'd put forward for the time being:

1) Let's see a render and a reasonably detailed (but not essay length) description, in English that most of us plebs can understand. Something similar to what I did for Euphoberia Ferox.

2) For all motivation systems that have not appeared onARC before, I'll need to see proof of concept (again, like I provided for EF).

3) Finally, for now I'd say that it doesn't qualify for the walker bonus. However, since it has no drive train, per se, it doesn't need to spend points there. It simply receives an automatic drive train bonus based upon the power of the weapon/mechanism used. This is provisional only and metrics and specifics will be worked out later. The reason for this is that it simply doesn't move like normal robots do. Traction and torque simply can't apply in the same way.
Edited by The Monsterworks, Jul 6 2016, 10:36 PM.
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