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What would roboguts do, anyways?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 04, 2014, 07:02:37 pm

"I'd like to see what you can look like if you did try."

"Really? Um... I'd need lots of time to prepare."

"How much?"

Noam goes off in search of adventure! Or a reply from Calvin.

He follows.

She has skittered off. Do you want to collect the webbing?

Yes.

...Isn't he in a chemically induced coma anyways?))

Once Jim wanders away and lets the nurses put him under again, yup.

More I was commenting on the fact the OOC thread has comments on stuff from all the other threads, so it's harder to keep things straight in my mind.

Ah.

As far as the profile, if you have weapons with drop, a flat but short target is harder to hit than a tall but thin target.  You wouldn't have to have it fly above it's target, and even if you did, a large percentage of it's area is visible sky from below.  It's really hard to shoot the rotors themselves without a continuous laser, so you'd have to target the central box, which is a far smaller target.

Alright, let's start at the top.
1. How is a wide target easier to hit with a dropping weapon than a narrow one?
2. If you don't have it flying fairly high, what are you hoping to gain above a running combot?
3. How can any of its area be open sky?
4. Um...lasers and such are pretty common. And explosive anything would be devastating. And even normal bullets would have a pretty good chance of hitting the rotors because of how fast they spin.

As far as erratic flight patterns, one advantage of the four blades is that the quadcopter has complete control over it's movements.  Assuming you have a good targeting CPU, it can completely predict what movements it'll make and compensate.  But even an animal with a fairly regular gait like a horse can't predict it's own movements so well because the ground varies.  It's not a big problem if you're running in a steel corridor where the floor is regular, but it's a big problem in uneven terrain.

Factor in winds and that isn't such a big benefit. To say nothing of your inability to respond to my actual question, or how most of the roughness would be "absorbed" into the legs (how much does your torso jerk up and down when, say, walking up a staircase or walking across rough ground?).

@Sean
As far as losing a limb, I'm told a quadcopter is vulnerable to it, but that it would mostly lose lifting power and manueverability.

How so? You never really explained this. The rotors, I can see your (incorrect) logic, but the arms holding the rotors don't have any easy explanation.

<And what's wrong with Kyle?>

<Want an itemized list?>

Kyle shrugs.
"Have you thought of faking your death and then moving to a castle in France with your dragon girlfriend and then living in the tower as the princess? Or just the first part."

"..."

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 03, 2014, 09:39:44 pm

Hm...M'Ber will get Soul Resonance, to enhance his leadery role.

Pretty useless if other people don't have it.

Really? It sounded like it didn't matter if the others had it, that you'd be channeling the others.

That's drug innuendo.

It is?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 04, 2014, 06:10:32 pm

Aren't we walking on that?

...You bastard.

Mwa ha ha? The song's that bad?

Aren't we walking on that?