Originally Posted by
Traab
Even extended flame time doesnt seem to ever do much. I mean, there was that one fight where complete control had, well, complete control over his opponent and basically bathed him in flame for 30 seconds straight, and aside from some minor smoke/steam or whatever, it still didnt do any good. It just looked awesome and scored judge points. And yeah, drones suck. Minibots suck too. They just arent powerful enough to do anything but give free points to your opponent when they inevitably get smashed or crash or otherwise break. As for bots like tombstone or toro, I compare it to the spear. Simple design that does its job so well that they remained in use for thousands upon thousands of years. Thats what we have here. Two basic designs that dont really need embellishment because they already do the exact job they are meant to do.
In fact, embellishments often get in the way. Remember the earlier qualifying match with, I think minotaur and blacksmith? Mino had the drum weapon that tore blacksmith apart, but he also had these two stupid spikes on either side of his drum weapon that meant he could only land a hit if he connected in exactly the right direction. Adding that bit of extra flair gained him nothing, but dragged out the length of the battle because it took him that much longer to land a solid shot. There have been several bots with amazing looking complicated weaponry, but the problem with that weaponry is it gave too many points of failure. Having a scorpion tail with a buzz saw blade attached is really cool to look at, but now you have about a half dozen ways that weapon can become useless with a single hit. Whereas someone like tombstone has realistically only one point of failure, hitting you so damn hard it breaks his own weapon as well as your entire bot. KISS is the order of the day if you want to win.