User blog comment:Jimlaad43/Ragnabot 3 preparation/@comment-27162079-20190604010513

Do you have a list of robots that are not currently in the potential lineup? I'm very happy with the format itself, so what I want to avoid is dud battles. By that, I don't mean battles which are bad - I mean battles which we can't even judge, because the votes for or against certain machines would be fuelled purely by speculation.

That's why I would want to remove as many of the could-win-battles-purely-through-guessing bots as possible. Bots like Max Damage, I'm fine keeping. They didn't move, but they're also pretty rubbish. They aren't going to win many fights if any. But as unpopular as this may be, I want to get rid of a machine like Crank-E. I liked the idea of thinking how to vote for it in the past, but that novelty has worn off. In reality, we literally have no idea about what it can do. how fast it is, how good its weapon is (heck, we act like this weapon could cause damage and do a good job, but it literally didn't even spin, let alone touch an opponent!), how good its armour really is, and so on.

If we don't want to eliminate Crank-E specifically, then alright I get it. But there are still more machines that fall into this category that I believe are a burden to the overall competition and that I think is in our best interests to limit to an extent if possible.