RobotWars101

Day 694: The entire surface of the earth is now covered in penguins. My friends and I are one of the last surviving cells of human resistance. We're hiding underground in what used to be the basement of my childhood home. We're in contact with a few other local groups of survivors, but supplies are ...

Agree

Gary; a lot has changed in a year. A year ago Nanos weren't very popular and the components to make them easily weren't as well known as they are now. Things change .

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Good post Dave. Few thoughts from me: I agree with the 2 minute time limit, as I've previously stated. Although I agree with you (barring instances such as what Joey mentioned above), I can't find the rule regarding parts not being shared. Which one is it? Clusters: I'm fed up (and have been for a w...

Thanks Harry! The speed at which you gets these up always impresses me.

I feel the need to point out that Vacuum, Succulant, and any other robot that worked by evacuating a sealed chamber underneath the robot in order to gain downforce are massively different to those using an EDF. Vacuums have a specific, exploitable weakness that EDFs do not have, which is that if you...

Yeah Dave, I realise that, but as we've already been looking at changing arena designs to balance things out (which I think has been successful, although we could still go further) I didn't want to include that in this discussion. We've only seen EDFs in pushers so far, but there's no reason you cou...

If people disagree with me on this, that is honestly fine. I didn't make this thread so I could say "BAN ALL EDFS BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THEM". I made the thread to start a discussion. My issue is that people seem to either be misunderstanding or ignoring the points that I actually raise, an...

My issue is that I don't feel like you should ever feel that you have to have a specific bot just to beat a specific other type of bot, which is exactly what is happening here. That said I do of course enjoy innovation and as such I look forward to seeing what you come up with.