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| Cherry Bomb Classic - Discussion; Update: 7/21/16 - deadline, rules, and house bots/arenas! | |
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| NWOWWE | Jul 8 2016, 03:40 PM Post #81 |
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Team Blood Gulch Motto
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| Wolf51-50 | Jul 8 2016, 06:36 PM Post #82 |
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
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Kill the snakes. ALL OF THEM. Monsterworks, you seem to have fans. I'm cool with the slitherers as long as you don't nerf the walkers, but please don't overdo it either (it's the Tombclones all over again). Again, I will make a trollbot next year if this gets out of hand, and believe me I can
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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) "hey, that's my underground sex dungeon, not yours!" - The_Angry_Goat | |
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| The Monsterworks | Jul 8 2016, 09:40 PM Post #83 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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There's nothing quite like being the original. TBH, I egged them on, only half seriously, with the idea of having us fight each other to see what a snek vs. snek fight would be like (there's one more coming, I think), and this came out of it. I feel as if the sneks should either be distributed more evenly throughout the divisions, or we should just have an all-snek mini-tourney if we wanna fight each other. They are kinda taking over SHW. |
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| Wolf51-50 | Jul 8 2016, 11:22 PM Post #84 |
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
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Idc. I wanna see a snek wrestle |
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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) "hey, that's my underground sex dungeon, not yours!" - The_Angry_Goat | |
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| Hooray For Lexan | Jul 8 2016, 11:30 PM Post #85 |
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Heavyweight
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You know what? Screw your snakes.![]()
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"you can give a fuck, just don't give too much of a fuck. there's an optimal level of fuckiness, and if you exceed your fuck quota you'll burn out." - BEES Trihunter on V900's New Undercutter: Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Wolf51-50 | Jul 9 2016, 12:13 AM Post #86 |
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
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Remember what I said about vertical full bodied spinners? Well, there you go |
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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) "hey, that's my underground sex dungeon, not yours!" - The_Angry_Goat | |
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| That Kode Guy | Jul 9 2016, 01:41 AM Post #87 |
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Ruiner of All
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It just occured to me that I have not given Teresa, my house robot, stats. So here you go. Speed: 10 Traction: 8 Torque: 5 Armour: 6 (+6 tournament bonus) Weapon: 11 (1 to the forks, 10 to the ramming bar) Have fun with that, competitors.
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| Mystic2000 | Jul 9 2016, 03:10 AM Post #88 |
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i could retire my Destroyer, i just had the idea once i knew that snake bots could actually work.. i'll just have to find a replacement since Asriel is getting killed by the rule changes that are being discussed... |
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| The Monsterworks | Jul 9 2016, 03:57 AM Post #89 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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Asriel can still enter CBC with 36 points, though it'll be the last tournament with 36 point walkers, pretty much. As much as I like making walkers, I do think that they probably needed a slight nerf since they were being used as an exploit. As for the turret nerf, I have to read up more on that. For the time being, I'm not going to change my ruleset. Also, if you wanna have a snek, then have a snek. In any event, I'm definitely gonna hold a snek showcase with a special arena known as the snakepit, so you'll have the chance to use it whether you enter it in CBC or not. No worries. |
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Wins: a bunch Losses: more every week! Mastodon (Extinction) || Osiris (Armageddon!) || Elrathia (ROBOTS) | |
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| The Monsterworks | Jul 9 2016, 05:04 AM Post #90 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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Oh please, try to! You gonna enter that thing? I love vertical FBS! |
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Wins: a bunch Losses: more every week! Mastodon (Extinction) || Osiris (Armageddon!) || Elrathia (ROBOTS) | |
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| The Monsterworks | Jul 9 2016, 09:57 AM Post #91 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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For the full effect, please listen to this song. Should I enter this thing? Cronos ![]() Wait a sec, is that a FBS?! Has Monsterworks lost it? Making a generic FBS? That's not like him... Spoiler: click to toggle Spoiler: click to toggle I'll start with an explanation of how it works, and then go into just why I made this newest aberration. How it Works 1) Cronos functions on principles similar to the Robot Wars entrant Psychosprout. However, it is vastly improved. There is a centre of mass inside the sphere that is not connected to the sphere and that uses its wheels to move the sphere. However, instead of an RC car, it is a cage with six motors and their associated batteries and mechanicals powering omniwheels mounted at the six points that delineate the x, y, and z axes of the bot. The inner cage is the single heaviest component of Cronos, so it is able to move the comparatively lighter shell. 2) The shell is basically just an armoured, hollow sphere that is able to move in virtually any direction at the behest of the omniwheels that push it. 3) Mounted outside of the shell but independent of it is the Ring. This is Cronos' weapon system and it is the second heaviest component of the bot. The two smaller golden rings (above and below) are the collars that ensure that the Ring doesn't just fall off of the drivetrain. Their insides, where they contact the large black sphere, use ball bearings so as not to impede its ability to move freely in any direction. 4) So why doesn't Cronos' ring just tip over? There are two reasons. The first is that the large golden ring is the stable mounting on which the weaponized portion spins, powered by several small brushless motors. It also contains balance sensors similar to those used by a segway. On its inside, where it makes contact with the black sphere are four omniwheels, which receive instructions from the balance sensors and kick in when needed to in order to keep the spinning ring from hitting the ground. Aiding this is the second part of the equation: a balanced weight spinning around the z axis is inherently stable. In a sense, it does not want to tip over. 5) Finally, just like a segway, Cronos can lean forward to increase its speed. This also brings the weapon closer to the floor. It's so high up. That's a bit baffling, right? Why a Sphere?! 1) So, while this all sounds cool and sciencey and maybe you'll take my word for it, there still seems to be no point to the design aside from novelty. Well, to be honest, there is a fair bit of novelty involved. However, there's some strategic reasoning as well. 2) Spinners and wedges have been locked in a battle for leverage for ages, and it's a battle that the spinners, because their weapons simply cannot rest on the ground and be effective, rarely win. Also, due to their generally inferior drivetrains, the spinners are rarely able to get around the sides or rears of their nimbler opponents. This allows the wedges to stack their armour in the front to the detriment of everywhere else. What I'm doing is turning that on its head and opting out of the battle. Cronos will gladly concede the lower ground to the wedges. Why? 3) If you hit something well below its centre of mass, what happens? It tips forward. The lower and harder you hit it, the faster that it tips. As good as the balancing algorithms on Cronos are, they can't compensate for that, nor are they meant to. Tipping Cronos forward brings the teeth of its spinning ring into contact (at an angle) with the upper surface of your bot, bypassing the wedge entirely, and since Cronos literally has no front or back, it works the same way from any direction. If the other bot doesn't hit with enough force, then the omniwheels in the ring mounting simply bring the ring down on purpose. Again, they can do that in any direction. 4) Due to its unique shape, Cronos is almost entirely immune to clampers and crushers. How do you grab onto a colossal sphere unless you have truly gigantic jaws? Flips won't actually flip it. It's more likely to just roll off of a flipper. If it does get flipperd the spherical part will absorb most of the incoming momentum by spinning freely. Hammers? There's no top to hit. Their weapons will either whiff entirely or be forced to hit the spinning ring, which isn't a good idea. Other spinners? The shell will spin freely when hit, absorbing some degree of incoming damage and recoil. Who knows, Cronos might even spinning top around. Basically, it's a big, slippery, roly-poly pain in the ass to actually just flip, or kill, or whatever. 5) There is one other very important tactic that I plan to use that will take this design from annoying and cool novelty to terrifying, but I'd rather not reveal it at present. You'll see it in my RPs. Stats How am I statting this ridiculous thing? ![]() Speed: 4 | Weapon: 14 | Armour: 9 | Traction: 2 | Torque: 1 These are of course subject to change. I'm thinking of taking a point from armour and dropping it into weapon, but we'll see. I have a potential ace up my sleeve anyway. Finally, thanks for checking this out. Sorry if TinkerCAD isn't quite up to the task of illustrating omniwheels. I'll get Rhino eventually.
Edited by The Monsterworks, Jul 9 2016, 10:40 AM.
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| Badnik96 | Jul 9 2016, 10:37 AM Post #92 |
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You're just a voice pal, you don't know a damn thing about racing!
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This is awesome and all but Psychosprout was a Robot Wars entry
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Team Ignition WhipCoil - The Crash & Burn Tournament 5 Champion Redline - Robot Bastards LW Champion Sling Shot - Bot-o-Rama 2016 Sportsman Champion The Debilitator - Cherry Bomb Classic Lightweight Champion Pyrite - FRR Backlash Lightweight Champion Doomerang - Robot Fight Night Heavyweight Champion [/color]
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| The Monsterworks | Jul 9 2016, 10:40 AM Post #93 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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oops. Also fixed so that there's no evidence!
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Wins: a bunch Losses: more every week! Mastodon (Extinction) || Osiris (Armageddon!) || Elrathia (ROBOTS) | |
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| The_Angry_Goat | Jul 9 2016, 04:11 PM Post #94 |
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Orb of doom is a better example than psychosprout tbh |
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‽ 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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| Cha0sFerret | Jul 9 2016, 04:46 PM Post #95 |
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What just appeared in my hands?
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omg guis stahp entering <insert bot type here> ![]() Let's put the snake problem in perspective: at the time of writing, there are 3 SHW slitherers on the signup thread. There are also 3 LW horizontal spinners (4 if you include melties in that). Apparently that's just fine with everyone. I would like to know what the real problem is here, because clearly it isn't the numbers. As for my own snake: RSoD is a one-off entry that I made purely to see if I had the patience required to make a slitherer. After this tournament, it will be strictly a showbot, for showbot tournaments or when I can't think of anything serious to enter in SHW. |
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Robocon (3-1) Eat Me Too: 2-0 Eye of Fury: 1-1 Ruination: The Upheaval (11-5) Eat Me Too: 3-1 Lulver: 3-1 Wedgelord: 3-1 Scrunglebot: 2-2 A growing collection of fun quotes from the community
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| Badnik96 | Jul 9 2016, 05:21 PM Post #96 |
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You're just a voice pal, you don't know a damn thing about racing!
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idk slithering seems like a gimmick thing and more than one of the same gimmick bot per class just sounds annoying maybe i'll be wrong and slithering is the new meta, who knows
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| Hooray For Lexan | Jul 9 2016, 05:23 PM Post #97 |
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Heavyweight
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Regarding Chronos: How do you even make it lean forward, given the huge gyroscopic forces it has to contend with? Also, it seems like the sphere would have very little yaw traction: how do you keep the counter-torque from spinning its own body? Also, quick thing about housebots. IMO they should be in the spirit of the original Robot Wars house robots; not necessarily insanely destructive, but with multiple weapons and a "showy" appearance. Incidentally, I'll have my own housebot design up in the next few days. |
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| The_Angry_Goat | Jul 9 2016, 05:52 PM Post #98 |
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THE MOST WONDERFUL SOVIET ROBOT ALREADY MEETS ALL THOSE REQUIREMENTS AS WELL. IS COMMUNIST EFFICIENCY. MUCH BETTER THAN EVIL CAPITALISM |
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‽ 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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| scorpion1m | Jul 9 2016, 05:55 PM Post #99 |
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the broniest robot fan
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my robots are now ALL UP |
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| That Kode Guy | Jul 9 2016, 05:56 PM Post #100 |
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Teresa is not destructive, she's just stupidly fast and has multiple weapons. Also, crucifix panel on top. ![]() If you REALLY want I can Photoshop some hair onto her.
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TBH, I egged them on, only half seriously, with the idea of having us fight each other to see what a snek vs. snek fight would be like (there's one more coming, I think), and this came out of it. I feel as if the sneks should either be distributed more evenly throughout the divisions, or we should just have an all-snek mini-tourney if we wanna fight each other. They are kinda taking over SHW.






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