ETC08 Extreme

To be honest with Kody, Im very reluctant to do so, so I deleted everything again, started again, and NOW it should be fine. If it isnt fine, Ill forget toning it up or down, and just settle with Knyfe.

...I may be being slow here, but whats changed?

Like I said before, you are not getting four LEMs and Hardox armour in a wheeled robot unless it hasnt got a weapon.

(Message edited by joeychevron on June 08, 2008)

Thtas true Paul. Danny has Crimson Thunder, which I think has 5mm hardox, 4 LEMs at 36v and weighs in at 100kg. Add a full pressure nitrogen flipper and that would be overweight

But Crimson Thunder was MUCH bigger than Nitro ever was.
And Nitro-Gene 4.0 had much of whats in it now, but what Ive done to make sure is its as lightweight as possible, so Ive made it smaller in width and height than any of the previous versions, and so its lighter than before, and there arent massive changes. The shock-proofing is also being used to hold the armour to the chassis as well as shock-proof (an idea used by Kody on his new machine, The Zodiac) and Ive gone back to 6 wheels, and Ive taken off 2kg of Nitrogen, so I now have 4kg on board. The armour is the same, the weapon is improved slightly, and its got 6 wheels, so its in weight.

If its too much trouble I may as well scrap 5.0 and just settle for a 4th version.

The problem is you cant have 4 LEMs AND a flipper of that calibre

Paul, I take the definition of a monocoque as being the bodyshell also serves as the chassis, not too sure what yours is.

I also dont particuarly see how four LEMs, Hardox and a full pressure Nitrogen flipper can ever be in weight, especially since youve now increased the wheels. Four motors driving six wheels equals lots of chains to make sure all six recieve the power, which increases the weight...I dont honestly see the need for four motors here anyway.
Like Ive kept saying, it will be closer to being in weight if you lose two motors and use chains to transmit the power (this is actually better than having four for a coule of reasons, which I wont go into here)

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so its in weight

Even though I didnt do a weight check on the current Nitro-Gene 5.0, your post contains no arguments whatsoever to back up this statement. When I weight checked the previous 5.0 I used a calculater and an encyclopedia to do so, and it was clearly overweight.

If you could post a weight break down to back up above quote thatd be cool :)

Im sorry to say this everybody, but since Ive decided to discontinue ETC for good, this will be cancelled. I hope never to have to do this again.....................
But since the All-Stars draw was done, I have done a hypothetical for that, I will post it in a minute.

Wait.......WHAT?!?!?!

What are you doing?!

You better give a damn good explanation as to why youre doing this!

Eliminators:

Wedginator Devilution v Nidhogg v Bigger Brother v Pussycat

Wedginator Devilution pitted Nidhogg after a long and hard tussle, and Bigger Brother flipped Pussycat OOTA, but was then pitted by Wedginator.

SOR X v Wedge Devolution v Supreme Glory Omega v Razer

Wedge Devolution was pitted by Supreme Glory Omega, whos link was knocked out by SOR X, who then trashed Razer and ripped out drive motors.

Nitro-Gene 4.0 v Cat with Wheels v Firestorm V v Chaos 2

Chaos 2 ran out of gas to self-right after it was flipped around by Cat with Wheels, and Nitro-Gene 4.0 flipped Firestorm V OOTA. Cat with Wheels then flipped Nitro-Gene into the pit.

Achilles v Liar 2 v Tornado v Dantomkia

Tornado pitted Liar 2, and Achilles flipped Dantomkia OOTA, but was then pitted by Tornado in a major shock.

Semi-Finals:

Wedginator Devilution took damage from SOR X, but came back and pitted it to win through.

Cat with Wheels flipped Tornado into the pit after a hard-fought battle.

Play-off:

SOR X flipped Tornado OOTA with no real problem.

Final:

Wedginator Devilution beat Cat with Wheels on an extremely close judges decision.

WINNER: WEDGINATOR DEVILUTION