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[neontetra23]

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Fine All Info Here:

ULTO II
Shape: a bowler hat with the rim being a 360 wedge
Colour: Blue for the body, Green for the 360 wedge and orange for the teeth and flipper
Speed: ?MPH
Weight: 200KG
Armour: 5MM Hardox
Drive
Power 10 NiCad Battlepacks @ 36V
Locomotion: A Small Mechadon Like walking mechanism
Ground clearance: 3MM
Turning circle: 0M
Size: 100x100x35 the wedge is 5CM tall and protrudes 7CM
Weaponry: 1) The outer shell spins and is powered by a Perm132, it has 8 2cm teeth on the body and 16 1cm teeth on the 360 wedge
2) 2 Identical lifting arm protrude 120cm from a small Tazbot style turret the top of the robot and go down to the floor at right angles, they are powered by a 140X180MM pneumatic ram
Each is powered by dual 5KG Co2 bottles, it has 14 attachments:
1) A Hardox Forklift Arm which is 15X5X3
2) A Small Hardox Wedge which is 20X15X5
3) A Curved Hardox Wedge which covers 45 degrees and is 10X25X3
4) A Curved Hardox Wedge which covers 90 degrees and is 10X50X3
5) A Curved Hardox Wedge which covers 180 degrees and is 10X100X3
6) A Circular Hardox Wedge which is 13X15X5
7) A Hardox Scoop which is 20X20X30
The Other 7 attatchments dont use the original arm they are connected to the turret and all arms are 120 cm long (without attatchments)
A Tazbot Style Lifting Arm
9) A Tazbot Style Lifting Arm with Panic Attack Style Forks at the bottm which are 35X20X1
10) A Mortis Style Lifting Arm
11) An Atomic Style Lifting Arm that narrows at the top and the wedge is 5X25X5
12) A T-minus Style Lifting Arm
13) A Techno Destructo Lifting Arm
14) A Toro/Ceros Style Lifting Arm
Srimech: The Flippers
Strengths: Powerful Spinner, Powerful flippers, Weapons synergy
Weaknesses Heavy, Quite slow

There, Phew!

[alex_holt]

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A lot of tournaments will have limits on the number of setups you can use, generally around five.

Also, is there a purpose fo all these different arms - realistically are all of them necessary? Obviously its very tempting to use multiple setups but quite often youll probably never use 2/3 of them. Id personally try and take it down to one of the wedges and the scoop and one or two of the lifting arms and explain WHY you would use that weapon.

For example on Achilles I have the pnuematic setup and the hydraulic setup - the pnuemnatics is used for most things, but the hydraulics are used for facing rammers because it means I can get them off the floor to remove their traction, but hydraulics arent really suited to fighting anything else as much as the pnuematics are.

Theres no point havign weapon setups just because you can (something I learnt with Slammer) because if you have redundant setups and you arent winning then its just wasted.

[neontetra23]

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i can do what i want

[leorcc]

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That answer is so wrong in so many ways Ben, you should really rethink that last statement.

[joey_picus]

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Ben, precisely what situations are you planning for with all those attachments? Can you give me a list of why you need each one, an opponent (real or vapour) they would be good against, and why with that particular opponent you cant use any of the other similar arms?

I suggest you rethink the design completely, as it looks considerably overweight even with the walker weight bonus.

[dinowarrior]

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Ben half of those set-ups are identical to one another. Why you need a T-Minus style lifting arm AND a Toro style lifting arm, when they are ESSENTIALLY the same thing, is beyond me. Likewise, why you need two Tazbot type arms, I dont know. You need to think this over.

My vapourbot, Cyclone Force, had 5 interchangable weapons. But since having a rethink, Ive narrowed it down to three.

[neontetra23]

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I can Have 14 It is MY! vapour
I just choose which 5 I want for each tournament
Fine it is a SHW 300KG!!

[joey_picus]

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You didnt answer my question - why do you need 14, and what is special about each of them that there are opponents that only that arm is good against?

[neontetra23]

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Because!
Variety is the spice of life

(Message edited by neontetra23 on July 18, 200

[dinowarrior]

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Thats NOT a good enough reason, nor is your reason for having 14 of them when you barely need half of those. Stop making such rediculous excuses and try creating a PROPER vapourbot.

Frankly, Im beginning to lose my patience with you.

[alex_holt]

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You can of course do it, but the longer you make your stats the more likely writers are to a) not read it all or b)not take it all in, or equally the fact you have so many setups which havent really thought them out much will subconciously count against you in the eyes of the writer, particularly as the difference between them all seems negligible.

Id not trying to offend you here but bear in mind I have had about seven years more experience than you so I have a good idea of what Im talking about. Especially considering that I designed slammer, which suffered a lot from overzealous interchangeable designs on my part.

[neontetra23]

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ok but i am adding one more:
15) An Axios like lifting arm

[dinowarrior]

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Axios doesnt have a lifting arm. Instant fail.

And instead of adding one, try removing 8. Itll work so much better.

[leorcc]

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Ben, are you now deliberately starting to troll?

People with years of experience are trying to help you out and all the response they get from you is arrogance and evading posts. In one of them you do the exact opposite of what the other suggest youd do.

For your own sake, look at your robot more carefully and scrap a dozen or so of your attachements.

@All the others: Do not feed...

[neontetra23]

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i am not being arrogant, i just think i should be free to make my own mistakes