Active Weapon Proposal

[geeza]

What I posted above is not an opinion it is a fact, although at the time I was not a governing body member I was at the meeting. So wether or not I am a GB member it is still true.

If the issue of us posting on personal accounts concerns others please say I can bring it up on Saturday, im sure its not difficult to have two accounts (Kane - would we need to have a second email address to register a second account?)

[cliveb]

Hi Paul,there already is a list of the Governing Body.If you check the FRA front page and click on the contact section at the top the full list is there.
Clive

[m2xt]

Thanks Clive, now I'm wiser as to who is on the Governing Body or more to the point who is not as it is quite a long list!

[cliveb]

No probs Paul, I wonder though how many users of the forum aren't aware of what is on the front page and just use the forum ( myself included i must add )

[kodster]

tbh I like seeing good rammers slam robots around; a box/wedge smashing another robot at 25mph into a wall and seeing them fly from the impact is good enough. Storm II made enough noise with Steel Avenger, Firestorm, Tornado and Typhoon 2. And it hardly used its actual weapon it equipped. Heck, Tornado itself with its 10mph was quite the good one. Proof that rammers can be just as exciting as other robots.

(though I also like good spinners, axes, flippers, crushers, etc. )

That aside, can we not be varied, people? If a roboteer wants to make their robot the way they want it, even if it's a passive rammer, you shouldn't have the right to reject it from a tournament it wants to enter. Let the audience decide how popular they should be instead of taking matters out of the roboteers' hands.

[anukhet]

Personal post or GB post? I DO give the credit to the membership for having the savyy to see the difference.

[m2xt]

As long as you can but I cannot always. We have been here before and seen the confusion that can occur during debates with official and personal statements. Perhaps I am completely void of any savvy?

[anukhet]

People on the GB are also roboteers and for various reasons they tend to disagree with each other on this and many other issues however, jointly, as Ed has already correctly stated, the proposal was dismissed some time ago (a couple of years ago off the top of my head) primarily for being unconstitutional and secondly the likes of Pillow Torque and Small Torque were strangely exempted from the 'boring' list hence my Owellian comment of 'some robots are more equal than others'.

[kodster]

I was just stating my opinion, really...