User talk:RA2/Archive 5

Archive
Done, as promised.-- STORM  II   19:37, January 14, 2012 (UTC)

Replica tournament
Just out of curiosity, have you decided when you're going to start showing the battles yet? Christophee (talk) 20:42, January 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * One battle a day with the finale on the 17th is what people seem to want, so that means I'll start a few days before the first of the month (insurance against being unable to upload one every day). Do you think people will be ok with me doing them without music?  I haven't been able to make revenue on any video with the purportedly public domain music.

'''R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk )''' 00:06, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Will you keep the sound effects from the actual game or just have silence? I don't really mind what you do, it's totally your decision. Just to be totally clear, the anniversary is on the 18th. Maybe you knew that already and people want the final a day early, but I'm just making sure you know. Christophee (talk) 21:02, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh I mistyped then, I meant the 18th. I will of course keep the sound effects, but the revenue thing, I have very strong feelings about - I mean if iJustine can make millions off of footage of her playing Portal 2 (very incompetently, I might add), then I feel like I should get a slice of that from my videos that are technically video game footage but mostly a showacse of my artwork.  But to get to the point, I'll probably get a few done this weekend. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 23:19, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * I totally understand your point of view. If I had videos that were eligible for revenue, then I would want to claim it too. I look forward to seeing the opening battles. Christophee (talk) 15:08, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

Playlists
If you want any series of robot wars, look at my user page.Madlooney6 (talk)

Competition Records
Is it worthwhile having somebody create a list of the fixtures for the Wiki Wars 2, and then update each one as a result as you upload them, on the Wiki Wars 2 page? Datovidny (talk) 17:20, January 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "fixtures"? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 17:37, January 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's basically a UK expression for matches/match-ups. I know somebody set up an image of the tree last time, which was updated after each battle. Something like that would be quite good. Christophee (talk) 20:12, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

Splinter
Great work with the Splinter replica I sent you. I don't think it was half that good when I finished with it. Is there any chance you could send me the finished robot so I can use it on my game? Christophee (talk) 15:12, February 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Here, I've uploaded it for you. It's DSL compatible, I think, http://gametechmods.com/../uploads/files/splinter.zip R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 16:03, February 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I'll try it later and let you know whether it works. Christophee (talk) 16:10, February 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * I've downloaded the file and imported it into one of my teams, and it works great. However, I was wondering whether it would be possible to add it to one of the AI teams too so I can battle against it. Can that be done, and if so, how? Christophee (talk) 20:07, February 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I'm coming off as a pain here, but I wasn't sure whether you had noticed my previous message since you replied to other messages on this page and not that one. I tried to find an answer online but failed in my search. Christophee (talk) 20:08, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh right, that. it's a little much to explain here, but there's a useful Guide to AI'ing on the front page of gametechmods.com. The weapon type you want is "OmniMultiZone," which I forget if it comes standard with DSL.  You might as well get learned on general AI'ing while you're at it, it's hard to do just one without learnigng how to AI completely. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 20:33, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I managed to add the robot to the empty space in "Team RA2" and it moves as it should, but it doesn't fire its weapons. It still has the smartzones you set for it, so I don't understand the problem. Is the file you sent me all ready to work as an AI bot or do I need to do something to it? Also, I really don't understand all the information in the "Bindings.py" file, so I don't know whether I've set it up right. Any chance you could send me the line you used for that file? Christophee (talk) 16:02, February 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * list.append(("Splinter","OmniMultiZone",{'nose':math.pi,'range':99,'invertible':False,'radius':0.1,'topspeed':99,'throttle':100,'turn':50,'turnspeed':2.5, 'weapons':(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)}))


 * Get rid of any indents that may have carried overR A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 16:32, February 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * It turns out that OmniMultiZone doesn't come with DSL, so the game freezes if I try to use it. Do you know where I can get the file from? Christophee (talk) 14:39, February 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Here try this. The OmniMultiZone file goes in the AI folder: http://gametechmods.com/../uploads/files/Sonny_NW4.zip  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 14:54, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * It works! Thank you ever so much for all your help. Hopefully you didn't find all my questions too annoying. Christophee (talk) 15:10, February 12, 2012 (UTC)

Help Needed With RARs
Just out of interest, how do you extract RAR files with 7zip? I've a RAR for the computer but I don't know how to extract the file. The help pages and website were both as useful as a chocolate teapot. Is it actually possible or do I need to look elsewhere?-- STORM  II   20:38, February 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's OK, I worked out how.-- STORM  II   22:35, February 9, 2012 (UTC)

Said Comments
Hi, I read what you said on the list of comments on my request for promotion. I'll admit, MOST of your comments were fair, but I would like to justify myself, in the hopes that I can redeem myself slightly in your eyes.

Firstly, the whole Contributions list thing, I originally started that when I could fit my contributions into one small little section of my userpage, just to prove that I was doing something, but then one thing lead to another and it became quite a list, I just chose not to get rid of it at first. Mind you, you were right, and I have deleted all of the stuff on that Contributions page, but since I don't know how, as an admin, you're going to have to delete the page properly now. I'm sorry if me having that Contributions page has been a bit of a "slap in the face" to you and any other admins here.

Secondly, the badges thing, yes, maybe my edits weren't SUPREME for every single one, and maybe my Badges list is quite long, but then, it wasn't me that gave myself all those badges, I mean yes I specifically asked Christophee, TG and Matt for badges on many occasions, but I did say after each ask, "if I need to add anything, then I will", but they still gave me the badges most of the time. So really, I don't see why or how you can have a go at ME for that.

Thirdly, the "fluff" was just me trying to give articles a bit of bulk. Yes, maybe they weren't necessary, but almost all of the time I have tried to put a lot of useful stuff on there. But when there's little I can think of to put on an article, and clearly nobody else can, if the article is given a bit of body, then it doesn't look so pathetic when the unauthorised users are browsing through the articles. But then again, if it is a style of editing that you disaprove of, then I'll try and cut those sorts of edits down to a minimum.

Finally, with all due respect, I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit by and let you talk about how a lot of what I do here is utter ****! From the day I have been on this wiki, I have worked incredibly hard and have tried my best to make the wiki the best it can be like the rest of you! I've been on here almost every day since September 2010 making sure of that!! Claiming that my edits haven't been "equitable" to yours all of the time is to be fair self-centred and ignorant, perhaps one or two, but I have made many articles much more impressive than they were, maybe you've been here longer than me, but I've still been here a while, and I've seen dozens of articles at their worst, and without trying to be full of myself, they'd still be in that state if it wasn't for some of my "Essay Edits"!!! I assure you, I'm not a gloryhound! I've sat by and let users and admins walk all over me at times, but I don't complain!

I'm genuinely sorry if I've come off as rude here, but I think it's fair if I get THIS off MY chest! User:Datovidny (talk) 15:47, February 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * You have nothing to "redeem" yourself for, my intent was just to help you as you moved further. But you have the right to speak your piece, and I will listen. I hope you will recopricate and allow me to respond/clarify to you.  I'll go one paragraph at a time.


 * I woudn't call it a "slap in the face" to anybody, it just came across like a peacock bearing its feathers.


 * I only brought it up because you used it as a qualifier.


 * That's exactly what I was talking about with the whole "less is more" thing. An article doesn't come across as pathetic just because it's compact or succinct. Redundant information is redundant - it's not necessary to always put the series, heat number, and link to the opponent's page in the battle summary when all of that already exists in the infobox.  And trivia too was getting unnecessarily saturated; the trivia section is for facts that aren't already in the article, and/or can't be easily inferred (exapmles of easily inferred would be that a robot who never appeared on TV never got flipped, or that a robot who was the only to do something was also the first and last)  It wasn't simply that there was large amount of content, it's because you sometimes didn't pay attention to surrounding pieces - I've seen sentences with three "however" clauses as a result of being "bulked."


 * I did not use that word. I'm not arguing that you haven't made the wiki the best it can be, nor that you haven't worked hard.  When I said your edits weren't equitable to mine, I meant only the pages where we both received badges (Supernova, Behemoth, Stinger are the ones I can remeber off the top of my head).  I doubt you're going to agree with me on that front, but I won't speak anymore of it if you won't.  I apologize if what I said came across as that harsh, I do not agree with those put-downs you assigned to yourself in that last paragraph.  I gave you my support, I told you it wouldn't impede your promotion, that should tell you how much faith I have in you when all is said and done - a quick look through the request archives will show you that I don't approve of just anyone. What I'm offering is simply advice and observations, it is yours to accept or reject.  Pre-emptive congrats by the way, you're unlikely to fail your promotion with an admin and a beauraucrat's support. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 18:31, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for being so understanding, I can see how I may have reacted a bit hastily to some good constructive criticism. It's just that I have had admins make accusations towards me in the past a lot, that I never really expressed my anger for, which is why I felt a lot better when I vented all of that out on you, which wasn't really fair, since you were offering support. So once again, sorry and thank you. User:Datovidny (talk) 11:27, February 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Do not not worry about it. In hindsight, I can see that I came across as very heavy-handed and for that I am truly sorry.  I am glad that the content spoke louder than the tone in the end. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 14:46, February 11, 2012 (UTC)

Bureaucrat
Hello RA2, when you ran for Bureaucrat in October, TG recommended that, if you still wanted to, to reopen your RfB in six months time, which would take us to this April. I'm considering opening a Bureaucrat request in the near future, and wanted to screen it past you first. I'm sure that we could both agree that three active 'crats on a wiki the size of ours seems like overkill, and I would not want to tread on your toes, being as you are a much more experienced contributor. If you want to run again I will choose not to. Thank you for your time. Matt Talk to me  15:56, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reminding me. I see no reason that we can't both run.  Last time we had people vote for whom they thought was more eligible, how about the same thing here? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 16:07, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * If you are OK with that. In truth, I see even no reason to make a competition out of it, if the people want both of us, why not? I shall open my run in the near future Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  16:12, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Cool. I only suggested it because you said that three might be overkill, but in truth I'm cool with have three beauraucrats (no ties in voting is certainly a plus) R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 16:22, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Great then, should we open our runs now while we're both online? Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  16:25, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 16:28, February 13, 2012 (UTC)

Thyrus
Hi RA2. Sorry to bug you like this but I'm questioning my Spawn Again replica statboard where it says Thyrus is the captain. A little bird told me he's a friend of yours so can you confirm what's going on in the least moaniest way possible. Cheers. --StormProof 21:43, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Well it's like this, I promised that replica to both of you without realizing it and posted it as one entry instead of two. It's a shame neither of us caught this sooner.  I can change the startboard to make you co-captains, does that sound fair (and not moany)? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 21:52, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, don't worry. As someone said "Even the greats can mess up". You have my strong support for bureaucratic election as my thanks for responding so quickly. --StormProof 21:59, February 13, 2012 (UTC)

Q&A
I will log all that was said. You confused me for a second, as my name is also Gutteridge (no relation) :D Matt  Talk to me  23:12, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry you couldn't make it to the Q&A. The log of the session is now available here. Christophee (talk) 15:07, February 19, 2012 (UTC)

UK vs The Netherlands
I noticed your response to Matt regarding the "UK vs The Netherlands" tournament, and I noticed you stated you didn't want any robots from Belgium. I can understand the points to that, but by that same reasoning, don't you think we should disclude robots from the Republic of Ireland (so Diotoir would be a no-no), for fairnessy reasons if nothing else? CrashBash (talk) 22:27, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * I took the United Kingdom to include England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Norhtern Ireland. Is that inaccurate? History was my worst subject in school, You'll be dismayed to learn that the US curriculum barely touches upon your country except for the War of independence. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 23:11, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but the UK is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland only (well...I say only, but it's the majority). The rest of Ireland (the Republic of) is its own country. Hence why Diotoir (and indeed Top Bot) fought seperately from the rest of the British robots even when they fought as one. CrashBash (talk) 23:14, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah I thought it was just for filler. Ok, I suppose in that case we can let them in, just because ther's so few of them that they're unlikely to get their own fantasy tourney. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 23:20, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * When's the tournament starting?  Mad looney 6

I need votes from Middle Eye, plus rankings from everyone who hasn't done so yet. '''R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk )''' 18:06, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * By the way, I listed my picks in order of preference when I submitted them. Christophee (talk) 19:11, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * So did I, I've specified that on the page now. Datovidny (talk) 19:13, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Great. Can you think of anyone besides Middle Eye who still needs to cast votes? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 19:25, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Samster? Snowdog140 20:06, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * The Samster has done his list of competitors, just Middle Eye now.  Mad looney 6
 * Won't be long then I wouldn't imagine, could be started by the weekend. Charlie M  12:18, February 29, 2012 (UTC)

Quick one
Hey RA2, remember that week-long break from chat which is supposed to expire tomorrow? I don't suppose you'd be able to set a more precise time for expiry for fear of jumping on too early and getting punished for doing it unwittingly. The only reason I'm asking this is because it expires tomorrow, but the exact time could be 02:00 your time for all I know (apologies if the answer is somewhere I can see it) so I would appreciate a more accurate time.  STORM  II   18:44, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a fair question, I didn't plan it down to the second. I'll call it 06:00 AM GMT.  Sound good?  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 21:22, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Thanks for your cooperation.  STORM  II   21:32, March 9, 2012 (UTC)

Trivia Quiz
I understand that you showed interest in my idea of a Trivia Quiz on the chat feature, when I initially posted the idea on my blog. If you are still interested in attending, I plan on hosting it on 31st March at 3pm GMT. If this is going to cause problems for you, please contact me as soon as possible. Datovidny (talk) 22:16, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I will not be able to make that - on that day I could only do 6:30 GMT or later. But if that time works for the majority of users, then you should hold it at that time.  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 02:59, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

Ricky Roby
Hey! New Wiki user here - just rediscovering my long dormant love of Robot Wars, love watching your replica battle on YouTube. I had no idea Robot Arena 2 existed with all this potential, I'm going to start looking into it!

Great work!

--Ricky Roby 13:54, March 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Great to hear!  I'm always glad to learn that I've inspired someone.  I recommend you check out the gametechmods.com forum, that's where everyone who's interested in Robot Arena 2 hangs out. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 13:57, March 13, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks - just signed up there as well. This whole thing looks pretty complicated, I'm still trying to find out how the wiki works. I can't wait for everyone to laugh at me for being such a newbie :P

Let's hope I can figure out this RA2 thing...--Ricky Roby 16:06, March 13, 2012 (UTC)

Dominator 2
I'm very sure that Dominator 2 would be seeded above Bigger Brother. The Seeding article states that Dominator 2 was going to be seeded 5th for Series 7, and this was back when they listed Razer as the 2nd Seed. When Razer dropped out of Series 7, it would have become #4. Think about this; Dominator 2 beat Bigger Brother in Series 6. If you don't mind, I shall be changing Ming to match this. Toast Ultimatum  20:58, March 21, 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.js
As you may have noticed, I've been filling up Recent Changes a bit with edits to templates, in an effort to make them collapse. I never figured out what the problem was, but I asked for help, and now I know what's wrong. Unfortunately, for the issue to be fixed, an admin must paste some data into MediaWiki:Common.js.

The data that needs adding can be found here:

Appreciate the help. -- Toast  Ultimatum  17:46, March 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Did it paste as you needed it? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 22:25, March 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm pretty sure all that would have been necessary to make templates collapsible, but I still can't figure out how to do it. All this has gone beyond me, and I know quite well what I'm doing with Wikis. It's a shame, because the Series (No.) Competing Robots templates are pretty tall, and if an article such as Demolition Man needed two Series Templates, it would take up loads of room. Thanks for the help anyway.  Toast  Ultimatum  22:57, March 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * The collapsible templates is a good idea, and I hope you can get it working. I've never been any good at dealing with wiki codes. Christophee (talk) 12:30, March 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure whether somebody got it working before I did this, but I added an extra line of code to the Common.js page and the collapsible tables are working. Christophee (talk) 12:26, March 30, 2012 (UTC)

Revenge of the Rejects
I have a suggestion for a future tournament if your interested. Revenge of the Rejects. The concept would be a certain number of robots that never got a chance to compete in the main competition, such as Haardervark, G-Man, Dominator 1, Killertron 2, Malfunktion, Draven and so on. Trying to think at how many there were if there was enough for a big tourney or not but i wanted to know what you thought first. BizarroKing 18:07, April 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's certainly an interesting idea, I might end up doing it as a side event of Series 2. How many of the bots in question have good pictures of their completed forms?  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 18:59, April 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Anyway I can email you or at least send the list I came up with? Then you can decide how you wanna do it and/or who you wanna use anyway you see fit --BizarroKing 16:05, April 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * I appreciate any help you're willing to give. What would be most helpful is a list of just the ones that we have good pictures of. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 16:10, April 22, 2012 (UTC)

Well here's who has decent enough pictures to work with or better yet have appeared in side competitions: Dominator 1, Crusader 1, Eye of Newt, Six Pac, R.O.C.S II, The General, Gnasher (soccer), Alien (soccer), Malfunktion, Spectre, Demolition Demon 2, Niterider, Panzer Wraith, Pressure, Piranha, Spirit of Knightmare, Shear Kahn, Cataclysmic Variabot (C.V.), Banana R Armour, Big Pants (a recolor of Hot Pants), Cayenne, Draven, Forklift, G-Man, Haardervark (possibly?), Hell's Teeth, Judge Mech, Killertron 2 (again possibly?), Merlin, More Panda Modium, TX-108, Tanto, Thorak, and Series 4 Typhoon. There's others but these robots have a decent pic set; most have appeared in side events on tv such as pinball and soccer too.--BizarroKing 20:12, April 29, 2012 (UTC)

Tournament
I'm enjoying the Tournament that your doing at the moment on youtube, it is very good. I'm a fan of your videos as the replicas are very realistic.  Mad looney 6 13:50, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks mate. I always love to hear things like that. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 17:24, April 29, 2012 (UTC)

2012 Summer Trivia Quiz
Hello, as you are a regular user to this wiki, I want to inform you that the 2012 Summer Trivia Quiz will be hosted on the chat feature of the wiki by me on the 23rd June at 3pm (British Time). I wish to tell you in advance so that you can try and set aside some time for it, it is estimated to go on for about an hour. If you wish to learn more about this, look on my blog for more details. If you know you can't make it, please let me know, I should remind you about this again nearer to the time. Datovidny (talk) 18:56, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invite, but that time is no good for me. Don't change it if it works for everyone else though. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 18:00, April 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * The chatbox isn't working for me; I can't see wht anyone's saying. Is anyone else having this problem? R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 19:55, May 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * It works for me, perhaps Wikia is acting up on your computer again? We do know that recently you've been restricted by Wikia hating your computer, and I feel sorry about that. Hopefully it grows out soon.  STORM  II   19:59, May 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * A lot of people get this problem, such as Madlooney and even myself. If you refresh, you can see what people have written, but ultimately, that would be a massive handicap for competing in a Trivia Quiz, and it also looks visually disruptive for other users. Toast  Ultimatum  20:42, May 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * Can I say, I've been having this problem too, ever since the chat was given a new format. I can't post anything on the chat and I can't see who is present. How about a group of us set a date and time to just go on chat to see if we are having a problem. Datovidny (talk) 23:29, May 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * NVM, it's working now, for me anyway. I'm starting to think the problem is my work computer, not the time of day.  Unfortunately I'm at my work computer for most of the daylight hours in England; on weekdays I'm effectively indisposed until 7PM EST. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 02:47, May 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * As I said, it works fine for me, my only handicaps are a) slow typing and b) dithery computer. Can't wait to chuck it.  STORM  II   09:39, May 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind, it's fine for me now, sorry about that. Datovidny (talk) 18:32, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Your new list
Since you commented on mine, I might as well do so on yours too. It looks interesting so far, and I'm curious to discover the rest of the episodes. I bet the UK vs Germany special of Series 6 will be somewhere on that list, because (in my mind) amongst all the things wrong with this episode was that they pretty much set it up for the UK to trash Germany...and it STILL backfired. So I look forward to learning if it is there, and what else occurs.

Oh, and BTW, I would have had my money on Black Hole to beat Razer in the European Championship playoff. CrashBash (talk) 16:45, May 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed, it's all well written. If I were to wage my bets, University Challenge and Minor Meltdown will probably end up there. I personally liked the University Challenge, but not Minor Meltdown. Toast  Ultimatum  17:06, May 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * If I may also throw another opinion in, 13 Black's fight with Dominator 2 was by no means a carbon copy of Dominator's fight with Hypno-Disc. In Hypno-Disc vs. Dominator 2, Hypno-Disc struck Dominator with the flywheel 3 times, and that was it for five minutes. 13 Black vs. Dominator 2, on the other hand, was action packed throughout, with so many near-pittings, they didn't have enough airtime to show them all. Dominator 2 sunk its axe straight through a roulette wheel, and Matilda also chucked Dominator 2 far away with her own flywheel. The fight was very close, and certainly unlike Hypno-Disc vs. Dominator 2. I recommend you watch it again, it's good fun. But those are just my own two cents. Toast  Ultimatum  22:36, May 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll grant, it was the weakest part of my argument, what I was more trying to convey was that Dominator had already shown it couldn't contend with that type of weapon, so the result was predictable. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 22:50, May 16, 2012 (UTC)

Well, the list has been finished, and overall, it was a good read. I'm glad the University Challenge didn't rank, like I expected it to, I rather liked it. If I was making a list like that, the Minor Meltdown would top mine. In every episode, there's supposed to be two favourites to meet in the heat final. The second favourite here was Killer Carrot. And I agree with you on Bulldog Breed, if a flipper's going to reach the Top 8, it should get an OotA along the way. So, yeah, nice job. Toast Ultimatum  00:05, May 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all your feedback. The Minor Meltdown didn't make my list because I loved the way Saw Point and Tetanus looked,  Bigger Brother deserved to win something (and get vengeance on Rick), and surprisingly none of the kids were annoying.  Glad you liked it.  I actually have an idea for another piece, so look forward to that. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 00:13, May 17, 2012 (UTC)

Wow...it was a great read, but it really surprised me that the UK vs Germany special wasn't there. It was pretty much flawed from start to finish. For one, out of the four German competitors, only two were actually German (with one being a loanerbot driven by a German team and the other being a Dutch robot/team with a German name). Secondly, not once was there actually UK vs Germany until the final came along (and even then it wasn't UK vs Germany). Thirdly, the imbalance (three extremely powerful spinners against some of the weakest weapons possible) only says to me that they were handing the UK victory on a plate. And fourthly (and this is the best one), when handing the UK victory on a plate completely backfired (when Fluffy's weaponary broke) they STILL wouldn't give it the loss.

Well, I'm sure you have your reasons as to why you didn't include it. Good work nonetheless. CrashBash (talk) 06:58, May 17, 2012 (UTC)

Hard Cheese/VIPER 01
After the information given by Andrew Norton of the team, would it be a good idea to change the Series Records for both of these robots, putting in the Series 4 section that VIPER withdrew and Hard Cheese failed to qualify? Datovidny (talk) 08:59, May 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, that's not entirely accurate, because Hard Cheese wouldn't have been admitted into the Wars in any case, being a middleweight and all. I think I've phrased it clear enough as it is, that Hard Cheese was just a proxy for VIPER (it was more or less a smaller version of VIPER after all). R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 13:24, May 31, 2012 (UTC)

Datovidny Requires Duplicates
Hi RA2,

Sorry I haven't been on in a while but my brother has been hogging the keyboard.

3 quick queries; 1) Had you decided to do 1 on 1 battles in this Replica series with the intention of using clusterbots?

2) Is it possible to download any AI-controlled replicas for our Robot Arena 2? We've next-to-no intention of posting videos online like you do, (we don't even know how to...), but if not, is there a place where we can download components to build replicas? I've exhausted gametechmods of components and i'm still having trouble.

3)Could you explain again how to turn player-controlled bots into AI-controlled bots? (I can't find our old conversation on this)

Cheers

Datovidny 14:36, June 11, 2012 (UTC)

I've Just Found It, Sorry

Datovidny 14:39, June 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure which ones you still need answered, for now I'll do 1 and 2...


 * 1) Yeah, 1-on-1 is the only format I can use that will accommodate a clusterbot properly. I'll probably end up retiring both of the clusterbots after this so that I can bring back 3 or 4 way battles.

2) You might try the Beetlebros' components here:  Lu-Tze, D1/D2, and the Beetlebros' pack have the most helpful components sets for building replicas.  Darkrat has some ok ones too, but the majority of them are too weird to be helpful 99% of the time.  A lot of it is ingenuity, adapting components through reskinning.  Teach yourself how to duplicate components rather than drawing over existing ones - it'll save you a lot of trouble down the line.  Get Paint.net so you can work with TGA's, and Notepad++ for component and bot flies - both of those are free downloadable programs. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 17:19, June 11, 2012 (UTC)

Cheers for the help, I'll be trying my first AI'ing tonight then, won't bother with a replica yet though

Datovidny (talk) 18:40, June 11, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Wars
Will there be another Wiki Wars next year? Sam (BAZINGA) 16:11, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible
Is it possible to make a cluster bot in RA2? I'd love to see it. Oh, and this is Chocolate Bunny Man, I forgot mah password....
 * Only with the Team Match thing. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 04:50, June 16, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, didn't wanna wast my time trying to make one lol. Oh and great videos.

Techno Games Wiki
The Techno Games wiki has not been edited for quite a while, do you think it is a good idea for this wiki to take over? The users of this wiki could expand the articles on the Techno Games wiki as on this very wiki, there is a fair bit about Techno Games competitors. If it is a bad idea, tell me, but as the wiki this program is for is the brother show of the poor abandoned Techno Games wiki, I think it is a good idea. Sam (BAZINGA) 20:40, June 16, 2012 (UTC) PS, I'm enjoying your current tournament on youtube.
 * Awesome, glad you're enjoying the tournament. I'm happy with the footnote mentions of Techno Games competitiors as we have them now.  If you personally are interested in expanding the Techno Games Wiki, why not just take it over?  There's a process for requesting a an adoption of a wiki, and if your request gets approved, you become beaureaucrat.  Here's the info: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Adoption_requests R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 21:06, June 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Filled out a adoption form and here it is, I hope I will be successful. Sam (BAZINGA) 21:21, June 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmm, ok. I didn't realize you only had 16 edits.  hey usually like to see a triple-digit number before they let you adopt. Good luck all the same. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 21:32, June 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * There's only 12 pages on the wiki altogether. Sam (BAZINGA) 21:48, June 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * Then you should create more pages - they like to see a commitment to the wiki before they dole out the administrative powers. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 00:59, June 17, 2012 (UTC)

Regarding Birthday Request....
Yes, it's fine if you need to use the S7 versions of Twister and/or Tartarus. I must apologise, but I don't really frequent YouTube anymore...I still watch your videos, of course, but that's it. CrashBash (talk) 19:25, June 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * I should have made it more obvious that it was my birthday yesterday >_> Toast  Ultimatum  19:43, June 20, 2012 (UTC)

Tournament
I've got a tournament idea for you. A animal tag team terror (psycho chicken and robochicken, mad cow and mad cow bot, cerberus and bulldog breed, pussycat and kat 3 are few examples). If you don't like the idea, that's fine, I just thought this up. Sam (BAZINGA) 14:14, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

AIing RA2 robots
Hey mate I want to know how can you AI robots on RA2, because I want to start a youtube series and I don't know how to do that stuff so can you help me? RWfan 23:59, July 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * This explains it better than I can: R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 04:04, July 3, 2012 (UTC)

Video
If anyone hasn't seen Sonny himself, follow this link. Sam (BAZINGA) 17:52, July 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * Eheheh, that silly old thing. They didn't end up using my footage, I assume it was because they were looking for stuff about "day in the life" reality shows (eg Jersey Shore, Teen Moms, etc) and my jokes were about reality competition shows. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 18:02, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

http://www.robotcombat.com/sale1.html
 * Cheers for the link. Sadly I'm "a day late and a dollar short" to buy that.  More accurately, a very large exponent of that.  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 18:54, October 5, 2012 (UTC)

RfP
Are you not going to vote in this? Or are you undecided?  STORM  II   21:05, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Didn't notice it before, my bad. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 21:10, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * Nae bother, just looking for more input as the votes fizzled out.  STORM  II   21:23, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * The only active admin left to vote is ManUCrazy, and he's not around that much these days, so I think we can probably close the request. I'll leave it open for the closing remarks though, as you said on the page. Christophee (talk) 22:04, November 6, 2012 (UTC)

Convenient Times
I'm preparing a date and time for the upcoming 2012 Winter Trivia Quiz to be hosted on chat, and I remember that you in particular can never make it due to the time difference, since I always set it for sort of 3pm British Time. If you have an interest in taking part this time, what sort of time (British Time) would be convenient enough for you? Datovidny (talk) 12:15, December 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, since I haven't had a response from you, I'm not going to bother to try and judge a convenient time, and I don't want to risk causing bother for many more users, so the quiz is going to be on the 29th December at 3pm (British Time), I hope you can make it, but I understand if it means getting up at 2am in the morning or something. Datovidny (talk) 17:04, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about me, I know that I'm the most difficult to accommodate with the time differences, so you have it whenever and I'll be there if I can make it. R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk ) 17:33, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

A meesage tomy fellow editors
Couldn't think of a better place to put this, since it addresses several people, but I don't want to go it too publicly. I am very unhappy with the way you all talked to Debs Cook. I would have thought we'd learnt the right way to talk to people by now. Was it so hard to make his edits sound better instead of deleting them? That's what you ended up doing in the end, so it was a rather foolish thing to do, no? And you love playing the Creative Commons card don't you? Do you have no soul? Can't we revoke some of our rights for the purposes of decency? And acting like you know more than him about his own robot, how pompous can you be? Since no one else seems to have been arsed to, I'll clean up his edits, frankly they don't look that damn difficult to clean up. I'm tempted to say that no one but me should be allowed to talk to IRL roboteers that show up, but that seems too harsh, even if it's apparently the only way to keep the peace. '''R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk )''' 00:32, December 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Having re-read my comment, it was more negative than I originally wished for it to be, as I did see good merit in the original edit, even though it needed odd ends sorting out. I was as surprised as you when the entire edit was simply rollbacked, even before we knew the edit was made by the Chompalot team, as even back then, I saw the merit to it, and in general that would be an inappropriate usage of a tool designed for fighting vandalism. However, while the wiki can hold a sense of deceny, the reason I played "the Creative Commons card" was because the team were threatening to have the whole article taken down. A simple rewrite of the article would be a fair enough ask, but having the entire article removed would create a huge hole in the wiki, epecially with a robot that won an entire episode, and I wasn't going to let that happen, hence why I provided legal reasoning as to why we wouldn't have to comply with a command. Again, decency is fine, but if you ask me, having the whole article removed would be indeceny on Chompalot's part. Toast  Ultimatum  01:05, December 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * That was such an idle threat though, that it's not even worth getting riled up about. From my point of view, exerting the Creative Commons is a sign that we have to resort to aggression because peaceful conversation has failed.  R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas.  ( My Talk ) 01:45, December 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right RA2, simple as that.--Nononsensecapeesh (talk) 10:16, December 17, 2012 (UTC)