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Re: ARC vs FRA, Battle of the Ages
Well yeah, they are really an American community that also builds fantasy robots on their own forums. There are several big differences.
1. They mainly have singly big tournaments with several writers and pauzes in between, rather than what we have, smaller tournaments made by individuals. One tournament has 4 robots per person of 4 different weightclasses (so they are actually 4 tournaments in 1, lol). Their battles appear on a weekly base and are genrally a lot shorter and less detailed than hours.
2. You have to role play every week, aka provide a big amount of text explaining your tactics in the fight. The quality of your roleplay has a huge influence on the outcome, unlike here where tactics are merely a bonus.
3. Their robots are explained in a different manner than ours. I like to see it so that at the FRA, we act as if we are real robot builders, where we have to think of building a very real and lifelike robot with real motors, real batteries... you get the idea, we have to explain exactly what our robot is like. ARC treats this more like a video game, where you can just name a weapon, an amount of wheels etc and then give a number of points to catogeries like Weapon Power, Speed, Traction and Armour. Advantage seems to be that it takes alot less research.
I like both methods in their own way and like the idea that us vapourboteers can enter both types of events. I hope that following this tournament by Mark 1 or 2 ARCrs may stick around and enter some FRA style events, just like several FRArs entered ARC tournaments in the past (w00t for my current SHW trophy!)
Well yeah, they are really an American community that also builds fantasy robots on their own forums. There are several big differences.
1. They mainly have singly big tournaments with several writers and pauzes in between, rather than what we have, smaller tournaments made by individuals. One tournament has 4 robots per person of 4 different weightclasses (so they are actually 4 tournaments in 1, lol). Their battles appear on a weekly base and are genrally a lot shorter and less detailed than hours.
2. You have to role play every week, aka provide a big amount of text explaining your tactics in the fight. The quality of your roleplay has a huge influence on the outcome, unlike here where tactics are merely a bonus.
3. Their robots are explained in a different manner than ours. I like to see it so that at the FRA, we act as if we are real robot builders, where we have to think of building a very real and lifelike robot with real motors, real batteries... you get the idea, we have to explain exactly what our robot is like. ARC treats this more like a video game, where you can just name a weapon, an amount of wheels etc and then give a number of points to catogeries like Weapon Power, Speed, Traction and Armour. Advantage seems to be that it takes alot less research.
I like both methods in their own way and like the idea that us vapourboteers can enter both types of events. I hope that following this tournament by Mark 1 or 2 ARCrs may stick around and enter some FRA style events, just like several FRArs entered ARC tournaments in the past (w00t for my current SHW trophy!)
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