A few queries

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:19 pm

would you say you could fight without causing much damage and that your robot is safe without a battlebox?

Lol, yea I would. There is no fear what-so-ever of it causing any damage. It just spins so its harder to get hold of.

Raizor · Post by **Raizor** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:53 pm

In my opinion its not safe to run any spinner (offensive or defensive) without a battlebox, It can catch an edge on anything and throw its self or another object which could be dangerous. Also what happends if the disc seperates from the shaft?

Remote-Controlled Dave · Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:11 pm

Its really not an issue with mine. It only spins off a servo, not a motor. It is really slow and spins the entire shell, purely so that it is harder to get hold of.
I can make it interchangeable so it doesnt spin anyway, so I'll show up to an event with it in both states and then a judgement can be made by people. I'm happy eitha way.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:04 pm

Bin puzzling me this, what is the 4" cube rule actually for? Cause it restricts design a lot. Is it simply so all ants can be contained in the same arenas? If so, why cant there be 2 different divisions, ones that fit in the cube, and ones that dont, and different competitions for both.

Bigshot team capt · Post by **Bigshot team capt** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:34 pm

It doesn't matter if it doesn't fit properly... AS long as teh entire robot can be shoved in somehow. It's basically to stop any1 turning up with an Ant as big as teh arena... (see Tornado, the time it won RW after cheating it's way past Razer in the final-not quite the same, but u get teh general idea...)

Raizor · Post by **Raizor** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:53 pm

Bigshot team capt wrote:It doesn't matter if it doesn't fit properly... AS long as teh entire robot can be shoved in somehow. It's basically to stop any1 turning up with an Ant as big as teh arena... (see Tornado, the time it won RW after cheating it's way past Razer in the final-not quite the same, but u get teh general idea...)

Choose your words carefully. It did not cheet, it was perfectly within the rules to do what they did.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:30 pm

but why not have a seperate, bigger arena for tournements for non-cube ants? or is it just too inappropriate to build and transport one?

Bigshot team capt · Post by **Bigshot team capt** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:56 pm

Sorry, I'm a Razer fan. Changing weapons, fair enough, but altering the entire shape of the robot is not on in my opinion. Plus it didn't fit in teh pit...

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:11 pm

What a great argument that continues to be over the years, but I'm a Tornado fan so you can guess what I think.

Well I don't know what the original idea was behind the 4 inch rule (and I wish it was 10cm. Say four inches to small kids and you have to explain what an inch is) but it's what we've got, and I don't think anyone's going to build a theoretically infinite battlebox to safely encompass a theoretically infinite antweight. Also rule 3a specifies the size of the arena.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:29 pm

Actually, while we're talking about the rules, I've just looked over them again, and I've noticed the following (perhaps worthy of consideration for V3.1 sometime.

Rules 2a + 2b should be merged with 2x +2y (weights and clusterbot weights).

rules 2 q + r (continuous to more than one plane) still don't make sense to me. Also they are not specific to armour or weapons, as I think had previously been mentioned. Perhaps if we had a really detailed discussion about it we could get to the bottom of what is wanted and meant here, and then we could specify the the rule in a clear and unambiguous way.

rule 4i states a maximum crystal change time for a clusterbot, but there is no maximum crystal change time for an ordinary robot. What was the thinking here?

Rule 5a states that scales must be accurate to 1g, but what it actually means (I think) is precise. i.e that it displays each gram and not only changes of two grams, for example.

Rule 5i "No spitting or swearing or punching" I still don't like it. It makes us sound exactly like what some people think we are, and I know we're not, if you see what I mean.