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I added some make believe ticker symbols to the news scroll er, I thought it might be fun if each user had a stock symbol and could see how there stock is doing.

Respond below with some information about your company and I will add your ticker symbol. I've already set up one for me, Lazy, and Ryan.

Information should include:
Ticker Symbol
Company Name
Starting stock price
Yearly Growth Potential

and a little bit about your company.

I keep fairly good company myself.

Epiphanot:


An idea that at first seems like an amazing insight (at least to the conceiver) but later turns out to be pointless, mundane, stupid, or incorrect, and often is the root cause of bad decisions. Mostly occurs under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Dark Jaguar Wrote:I keep fairly good company myself.

Epiphanot:


An idea that at first seems like an amazing insight (at least to the conceiver) but later turns out to be pointless, mundane, stupid, or incorrect, and often is the root cause of bad decisions. Mostly occurs under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

I'm going to create a ticker for you that splits every five minutes.
FUN KILLER*!**!*

(EDNM)Team Eden Combat Robotics $133.70 down .42

Now there's a blast from the past :D

Poor Battlebots... it died...

Yes, yes...as I understand some competitions do still take place, but the sport itself is spiraling quickly downward.

Really I think the main problem is the robots never really actually destroyed each other that often, and there's only so much damageless hammering one can watch before it gets boring. I mean they did end up having to resort to "damage points" for each ineffective tap with a hammer. The announcers were pretty funny though, because the only way they made it cool was basically saying "if that hit you you'd be walking funny for a while". Yay, but I can do hypothetical robot v human battles in my head on my own time :D.

I'm sure it'll be much more popular when the tech reaches the point where crazy damage and lightning speed become the norm. I just got bored of a buzz saw just sorta bouncing off the opponent a long time ago.

That said, EM, I know that sometimes some real damage was done, but I can count the number of times I saw a robot actually destroyed on one hand.

Once we get robotically controlled mechs, it'll be a big hit. :)

Mech Assault style mechs never sat well with me. What's so great about the human form, in terms of battle I mean? There are far more efficient designs than a walking humanoid robot. Also, it just seems really stupid if the robot is just going to shoot people to actually give it a hand for the sole purpose of putting a really big gun IN that hand. There's also the issue of scale. Since 2D forces in construction vs 3D forces don't scale at the same rate, it takes a lot to get that working. Blowing up a gun just wouldn't do the job. The bullet would never leave the chamber! Look at cannons and the difficulty, historically, of increasing their size (these days scaling down is important though).

I expect giant robots to resemble bugs more than people. Those are good designs, though again the issue is scale. An ant 100x the size will not have efficient blood pumping and, on top of collapsing under it's own weight, it might just cave in on itself, which would be really gross and take a while to clean up. (There's a reason bugs only get so big on our surface world, whereas boyancy underwater allows for much bigger bugs, also known as king crabs and such.)

Pit them against condemned criminals, a la the Roman Gladiator sport.

I believe that's cruel and unusual.

Besides that, those robots are sort of a mixed bag when it comes to how much damage they could do to a human. Anyone that's quick on their feet really is more than able to handle a robot running around (far superior mobility and a good boot to the top of one should pin it pretty well). Only a person that trips up at some point is going to get shredded.

EdenMaster Wrote:(EDNM)Team Eden Combat Robotics $133.70 down .42

Now there's a blast from the past :D

I add your stock but I screwed up the entry in the engine so I had to change your symbol slighly to keep from reseting everyones numbers.

Your opening price (delayed):
(EDNMA) Team Eden Combat Robotics $134.07 $0.37

EDIT:
I had to reset the engine anyway because of a bug.. So your ticker symbol is correct now..

Opening Price:
(BJAC) The Return of Bo Jackson M. Fund for Orphand Tosters $13.7 $0

Quote:Mech Assault style mechs never sat well with me. What's so great about the human form, in terms of battle I mean? There are far more efficient designs than a walking humanoid robot. Also, it just seems really stupid if the robot is just going to shoot people to actually give it a hand for the sole purpose of putting a really big gun IN that hand. There's also the issue of scale. Since 2D forces in construction vs 3D forces don't scale at the same rate, it takes a lot to get that working. Blowing up a gun just wouldn't do the job. The bullet would never leave the chamber! Look at cannons and the difficulty, historically, of increasing their size (these days scaling down is important though).

Never played MechAssualt, but MechWarrior and MechCommander on PC were awesome... (those would be a mech sim and strategy game, not an action game like MechAssault on Xbox) Mechs are cool. Are there more efficient forms of vehicles? Yes, sure. I don't think that's really the point though, the fact that they look cool is. :)

As for guns... why must you question these things? It just works, darnit! :D

Well in a video game sure, but I think the subject was about those things actually being made in the real world :D.

Dark Jaguar Wrote:That said, EM, I know that sometimes some real damage was done, but I can count the number of times I saw a robot actually destroyed on one hand.

That's because you didn't watch as much as I have :D. I remember Mechavore rending through Vlad The Impaler's inch-thick armor as though it were cardboard, nearly cutting it in half. I remember Minion striking Toro so directly that its blade cut into and ruptured one of Toro's internal CO2 tanks, basically blowing the top off of the machine. I remember Son of Whyachi mercilessly tossing the 300 pound Nightmare across the arena floor, decimating its entire drive assembly, without skipping a beat. Backlash versus Alpha Raptor, Ziggo versus Shrike, and lest I forget about Hazard, and the piles of destruction it left in its wake, winning 3 out of 5 Middleweight titles...

There was destruction, to be certain. Much more that didn't make it on the air, footage that had to be sought out by more intrepid means. Fun stuff, but I don't expect you to appreciate it as much as I do (or did) :D.

Dark Jaguar Wrote:I believe that's cruel and unusual.

Besides that, those robots are sort of a mixed bag when it comes to how much damage they could do to a human. Anyone that's quick on their feet really is more than able to handle a robot running around (far superior mobility and a good boot to the top of one should pin it pretty well). Only a person that trips up at some point is going to get shredded.

Not if the robot had rocket launchers, and 3 foot thick armor, on tank treds.. :)

Well sure, if we're talking human vs remote control tank, tank wins. I thought Weltall over there was talking normal battle bots.

Quote:Well in a video game sure, but I think the subject was about those things actually being made in the real world .

My point was that a lot of people think mechs are cool, so no matter whether they actually make sense or not, they're going to be made in the real world in some form or another. :)

These may not go anywhere, bet eventually it'll happen. Whether it catches on or not, though... who knows. Maybe not.
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