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Looking to the future...
Topic Started: Feb 27 2009, 05:00 PM (14,963 Views)
playzooki
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Murder Is Fun! - Reign of Steel HW Semi-Finalist
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Because I have no intention whatsoever of listening to Siphai...

Shadow Zone Forever v6

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Not retiring him. Bring back Tank for all I care.
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Oh snap... Business just picked up!
Area51Escapee,Jan 30 2011
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Spatula,Jan 29 2011
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I should go 3-1 this week but it'll probably be something like 0-4 or 0-5.

It sucks going 0-5. You lose all 4 of your bot fights for the week and you also lose at life.
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Well I was looking through old convos, and I re-read through convos we had about what would be better - a wedge with a single flat edge, or a wedge with serrated teeth. He said serrated, but to be fair to him though, he did say it depended on a few things, so it's his call. tbh I feel this is a good set-up
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[4:45:40 PM] Martijn: to be fair when you named the thing Shadow Zone FOREVER it was sort of decided you could never retire him
[4:46:03 PM] Kody Kunz: HAHA
[4:46:16 PM] Kody Kunz: ....... (rofl)(rofl)(rofl)
[4:46:25 PM] Kody Kunz: oh my god
[4:46:26 PM] Josh Noel: lol
[4:46:30 PM] Kody Kunz: why am I laughing so much at that
[4:46:51 PM] Martijn: because you know I am hilarious
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Business just picked up!

Vintage JR! :D
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League of Robotic Excellence: MW 3rd place (Terminus) and LW CHAMPION!!! (The Servant's Assistant 3)
Ruination: The Omen: MW joint 3rd place (Merry Hampton BR) SHW joint 3rd place (Curse Of The Deep 2) and HW CHAMPION!!! (Klarinette)
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The lighting on that is fucking with my eyes. The wedging looks like one of those optical illusions where it looks like its flat, and then you look at it again and it looks like its sticking out. Pretty cool though.
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I can post a few more images of that later, if you'd like.
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Right, my next two tournament teams are locked.

Ruination: The Omen
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Xianghua
Cutie Honey
Fulcrum

FRR: No Mercy
Airazor
Solve et Coagula
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Now... what's next? Obviously there's a few designs in the pipeline I'd like to try (Murder Bar, the new Troubloon, the new Jinx, etc.), and ones I'd like to forget (Kite... :() but what's everybody else thinking?

Both Alex MW and Lian are thinking of new tournaments as well. That's piqued my curiosity.
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I'd like to see how my Scorpion clamp thing would fare, but I need to come up with a good name for it first. I'm unsure about Stormbringer, personally, but I might like to show Watch Your Step! some action, depending on how well others do.
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Really lacking in inspiration right now. Maybe I'll just toss in a joke entry for HW this time around, considering all my HWs have been jokes anyway...
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Before I talk about the future, let me just express my utter surprise at some of the concepts I've tried out already; the good and the bad.

Certainly Teresa, being the lifter-spike combo that she is, is my best bot at the moment, and I never imagined she'd be this good. Ever. But there's also been other surprises. Cutie Honey, for example, beating bots like Camo Alert and Revolver Ocelot who clearly had an advantage over her. (In Cutie Honey's case, the "concept" was my exasperation at 7 wedges, so I made a dick move and did a "1 wedge" concept. I never thought I'd win a championship with her. Sheesh.) Spectrum of Eternity, right afterward, was probably the one bot that I felt made me really cross the "dude what the fuck are you smoking" line. It was really fast, and had a powerful weapon. The problems were incredibly weak armour and no srimech. You'd think this piece of shit would fall on its face... or rather, its head. Right? But no, it won. And for the record Pursuit was THE perfect counter to it, I feel, and I probably shouldn't have won that at all.

I'll go back even further. Tax Cutter in ARC: Carnage. Where the hell did you get a shape and triangular spinner like that? Certainly I didn't see anything like it at the time. Well I was surprised that he pulled a winning record back in Carnage, and even moreso at his victory in Ruination 1. Maybe that was what made me so disappointed in his Crazy Bots run, since I now had high hopes for him.

Parental Advisory: Explicit Content is another. I had dustpans on the mind, but I still wanted a flipper. So you there are. The record I pretty much predicted, but not in the way I'd hoped. The surprise? Umm... I'm not sure how, but it beat Drive. (Philip did say the magnets weren't a deciding factor in the PA:EC vs. Drive match, but I disbelieve him :P). I also managed to take out impressive bots like Inflammatory Slammer and Lime-y, and hang tough with Diamondback.

There were also failed concepts that didn't see any competition (Luna's initial stats, with a wedge component), and then some that just... well, didn't do well and were real let-downs. Yeah you know what's coming. Kite. To work really hard on that specific robot and then to have it do so poorly early on like that just took something out of me. I won't get into Solve et Coagula's issues, seeing as he's competing at the moment, so we'll continue to see how it does. And none of this is even counting all the other concepts I've cooked up in the meantime but not even competed yet.

With that said, I think I'm done with concepts for a while. I have so many of them to try out at the moment, like Just One Fix (yes, that bot IS getting used now!), Airazor, Anger Denial Acceptance, Mimete, Transgression, Murder Bar, Master of Savagery, etc that it's kind of getting overwhelming, on top of my already competing bots. There's hardly any place for all these bots now. But I'm not say I'm going to give the remaining ones away... anyway...

Plans for the future? Well...

LW: Airazor stays of course; she brings a fusion of Razer and Warhead to the table and that'd be a hoot to test out. I'm just not sure what LWs to use afterwards, like in Lian's new tournament and Siphai's upcoming one, provided Siph goes for the classic set-up. Maybe I'll punt Troubloon into Siph's thing and shove BlackRose into Crazy Bots. But again... JOF needs some time. =/ RPing with BlackRose again would be kind of monotonous.

MW: Same situation as above, kinda. Mimete stays for FRR6; Lian made a good point about the Full Tilt bot (which I forgot about, apologies to Shane...) and Mimete looks fun to RP with. The field is smaller here though, since Terminus was an upgraded Perseus and now he's on Lian's team... and that Luna is Ultraviolence basically. I can redesign ADA possibly, but it'd take work. The new Jinx doesn't look too bad IMO though.

HW: Ugh. There's two HW concepts here I wanna try out. Transgression was that artwork-inspired "face" bot with the horizontal claws. I'm not TOO convinced on it being a success, seeing as how Super Gore did in Robot Attack. Murder Bar however is the Last Rites clone. I'm not happy with his wedge so I'll probably redo that though. At any rate Spectrum of Eternity certainly isn't returning. I'm not re-rendering that fucking thing in a million years. Better yet, have another 9-10 weeks of SZF. :P Or maybe I can annoy Siph with Cutie Honey. He'd LOVE that, I'm sure. :P

SHW: Teresa is my biggest success story, undefeated championship streak extended into Ruination. We'll see how long she can keep the momentum going. :P Anyway the new Fulcrum and PA:EC are rearing their heads, but... Master of Savagery is somewhat different and he'd be an interesting bot to RP with. I did feel Splinter in RW was a good robot but he just had armour issues, and if he fixed them up he'd be fine. In the worst case scenario you'll get to see Count Bleck or Industrial Bastardization again. :P

All in all, I appreciate the successes that Teresa, SZF, Luna, BlackRose, and the merry bunch are currently bringing me, but I'd like to try out some different bots now. Mind you, ones that don't drop dead every match like Solve et Coagula seems to be doing. :( Breaking even would be fine.

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Okay I'm done. :wat:
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i am surprised every time my bots win they are all terrible and i suck at this. :v:
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Murder Is Fun! - Reign of Steel HW Semi-Finalist
Shrek - Hammerfall 4th Place

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argh i have too many LWs and not enough MWs ;-;

might end up scaling up Shade Fist 3 or something, I dont even know
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Redline - Robot Bastards LW Champion
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LW - fatality will likely become even SLOWER to really get that mighty glacier feel, but it will have less pinballing action so that tabletop arenas aren't just an instant L. the armor bonus will likely be cut a bit too if only to reduce self-destruct potential. (-speed, +traction)

MW - LAotL may or may not get a stats edit so that it does more that scratch damage. we'll see. the wheels will also poke through the top of the chassis so that its invertibility is more clear. (-speed?, +weapon)

HW - final judgement seems to be doing fine for itself as a brick with a hammer. it may become more pushy/stable at the expense of speed or weapon but thats it. (-speed -weapon, +traction +torque)

SHW - ultimas dumb armor issue will be fixed, and i will be making it wedgier/pushier so that it can stand up to flippers better. (-weapon, +wedge/+traction/+torque)
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Well excluding FRR (which is basically my "I'm too lazy to design new stuff right now and am entering a high win team that by definition can only underperform" line-up) let me take a look at Crazy Ruin: Blazing Omen :v: and beyond!


LW:

Well you can be pretty damn sure it won't be Zombie Killer. I've finally learned my lesson there. :v:

But what else? Doing some further tweaking to Spike is a good possiblity, and beyond that I don't really have any ideas for LW hence entering Robotnik in FRR. Remaking something like O'Malley is redundant with Robotnik around so anything else I enter in LW would have to be a completely new bot.

MW:

Well after Sarge I'm planning on doing some updates to both King Dedede and Harbinger. It's basically a toss-up as to which one I feel like using at the time as to which one would be first. Another apperance by Green Hornet down the line (possibly with a new design) isn't out of the question either.

HW:

Well this is back to being boring. Ridley's doing well enough that I won't have any real reason to un-retire Revolver Ocelot, so a redesign as Meta Ridley is likely to be upcoming. I may retool the K. Rool design (as either Kaptain K. Rool or Baron K. Roolenstien). ToC is a design that will pretty much always make a re-apperance every now and then. I may try to do a re-imagining of Arbiter or Redemption Denied (a la Spike) as well.

SHW:

Retooling Final Boss back to his version 1 roots as a flipper kinda gives him new life so he may continue again down the line. And the pickup of Jack Frost gives a strong entry to use again (possibly in CB). Unfortunetely Tali has proven a bit too gimmicky, and I can't really do too much with redesigning her without missing the point of what the design was supposed to be in the first place. More likely I'll re-draw a Godfather Part III and hopefully make him a bit more practical.
Area51Escapee,Jan 30 2011
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Spatula,Jan 29 2011
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I should go 3-1 this week but it'll probably be something like 0-4 or 0-5.

It sucks going 0-5. You lose all 4 of your bot fights for the week and you also lose at life.
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Nov 12 2013, 01:28 PM
LW - fatality will likely become even SLOWER to really get that mighty glacier feel, but it will have less pinballing action so that tabletop arenas aren't just an instant L. the armor bonus will likely be cut a bit too if only to reduce self-destruct potential. (-speed, +traction)
As a bit of advice, I honestly think you'll be better off adding a little extra armour- improves the reliability a bit as well as providing external protection, so there's less likelihood of it falling on its arse and dying at the first blow.

Likewise, having Speed and Traction is good- I tried the "Mighty Glacier" approach with Psyclone in Ruination: The Beginning, and whilst yes, it could stand up to just about anything, I often found it being outclassed by faster designs that could get in and nullify the spinner by preventing it from turning fast enough.
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Torque Dirty 2 Me- 2-0
Ayame- 1-0
Dead on Arrival- 1-0
Barley Picker- 1-0
Lethal Injection 3- 1-0

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I'll probably remake Poison with a better disc and better stats. Otherwise idk what I'll do for future bots honestly. Just make something cool I guess, maybe horizontal clamp for kix.
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Entering these guys might be worth a thought. :v:
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"I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets."

Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0)
Swiftsure- 2-0
Torque Dirty 2 Me- 2-0
Ayame- 1-0
Dead on Arrival- 1-0
Barley Picker- 1-0
Lethal Injection 3- 1-0

Robot Bastards 2 (5-5)
Apathy & Lethargy- 2-1
Trump ex Machina- 0-3
Rainbow in the Dark- 3-1 (6-3)

Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8)
Ayame- 6-1
Marauder- 6-1
Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4
Lethal Injection 3- 5-2

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Wins: 347
Losses: 230
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Mind you, of those eight, Metal Man would definitely be good to have- even if only for being able to cut opponents down with a hail of Metal Blades. :P

"Metal Man will rock your shit, you're hit, don't you forget it bitch- throw a Sawblade into your face. Let's face it, YOU WILL TASTE MY RAZOR BLADEZ."
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"I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets."

Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0)
Swiftsure- 2-0
Torque Dirty 2 Me- 2-0
Ayame- 1-0
Dead on Arrival- 1-0
Barley Picker- 1-0
Lethal Injection 3- 1-0

Robot Bastards 2 (5-5)
Apathy & Lethargy- 2-1
Trump ex Machina- 0-3
Rainbow in the Dark- 3-1 (6-3)

Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8)
Ayame- 6-1
Marauder- 6-1
Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4
Lethal Injection 3- 5-2

ALL-TIME RECORD
Wins: 347
Losses: 230
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