How could I Improve pt 2

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

Gasp! Alex Holt used a smiley!

[dinowarrior]

How could I Improve pt 2

Yes, Eleven was in Series 5...and it did move, just not very far.

Anyway, this whole walking/shuffling thing is stupid and confusing. If it has legs, its a walker as far as Im concerned. Im sticking with that.

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

I dont since shufflers are way too easy. Giving shufflers a weight advantage in robotwars is not fair.

[dinowarrior]

How could I Improve pt 2

Itd be OK if people would just make up their blooming minds! When you say shuffler, only two come to mind...Drillzilla and Ansgar. Those are definate shufflers in my mind. Everything else, frankly, isnt.

[joey_picus]

How could I Improve pt 2

Its a very technical issue, a concept which you seen to have continual difficulty in understanding

I think the final say in all this rests with the tournament writers, if they say its a shuffler then its a shuffler, their tournament, their rules (to an extent). This is going to come up all the time when walkers are discussed, and i think it would be prudent not to clog up the new improving thread with arguments just yet

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

You know what, its just too irritating.

Im ignoring all the n00bs and n00bish posts that come in Fanfic section for now, unless its directly involving me.

(Message edited by kodster on July 20, 200

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

And what brought this on Kody?

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

An MSN convo. What else? :P

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

Pretty simple, from the RW7 rules:

Walkers that employ a rotary camshaft to actuate feet will not qualify for the weight advantage (shufflebots). No walker must employ any device other than moveable legs to support its weight. No type of rolling or sliding mechanism will be allowed.

Note it doesnt say the camshafts are the feet (they arent most of the time) but if it uses a rotary camshaft to actuate feet. so no matter how much more elaborate you make the system, rotary camshaft == no walker bonus.

This is also the main reason you dont see many walkers. The weight bonus doesnt justify the complexity of the mechanism. KISS is always better so roboteers will always prefer standard wheels. The double the weight if you make it walk may look enticing but its not really. After all, a rotary camshaft is no more than a wonky wheel.

[knightrous]

How could I Improve pt 2

Leo is on the money...

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

Precisely one of the reasons why I dont make shufflebots. :P

[Guest]

How could I Improve pt 2

I need your opinion on this guys:

For RS!!3 I was planning to move up to 128 robots to do an RW7 style tourney, but after a bit of thought I have wondered whether Ill actually I get 16 people, and I have enjoyed doing the RW4 style tourney in Series 2, so I was wondering what you thought was better?

[knightrous]

How could I Improve pt 2

In perspective of tournament scales, I would rather see a smaller 8-16 robot tournament that will get finished quickly, allowing a follow up tournament shortly after. The big thing I dislike about the large tournaments is, they always take ages to be completed and a lot of them dont get finished. The other issue is, by the time they are completed, the version of your robot is about 3 version behind your current one.

I reckon someone punching out 8 or 10 small 8-16 bot tournaments a year is better then someone running a 48-72 bot tournament and taking a year to do it... smaller, frequent tournaments keeps the action high, and the designs current.

[kodster]

How could I Improve pt 2

So what youre saying is...majors suck?

[leorcc]

How could I Improve pt 2

I would agree that smaller tournaments are preferred in this case.