Planet TR Contest Over: Bot has been named! : FPS / MMORPG / RTS Discussion

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 2:34 pm

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Planet TR Contest Over: Bot has been named!
Planet TR held a contest to name the Earth bots, given only the description below and a couple of screenshots. Human survivors on Earth have been fighting against the Bane to hold back the tide of destruction. Unfortunately, intense casualties...

Author: NCsoft Content Writer
Category: Latest News
Publish Date: 2008-11-10T19:56:02Z

Planet TR held a contest to name the Earth bots, given only the description below and a couple of screenshots.

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Human survivors on Earth have been fighting against the Bane to hold back the tide of destruction. Unfortunately, intense casualties have made it harder to rally the numbers necessary to fight back, forcing them to look for new military solutions.

In response, humanity has assembled a robotic fighting force out of the scrap, junk, and rusted remains of civilization. Although these robots are neither reliable nor especially powerful, they can be created quickly, cheaply, and in large numbers for military action against the Bane.

The humans have grown fond of their robotic allies, but openly acknowledge they are rusted pieces of junk.

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And the winner is....

B.O.B.

While the official military moniker (Basic Operational Ballistics) is a hold-over from their early prototype phase, they have since been renamed by troops in the field more "lovingly" (Bucket Of Bolts); either way, their acronym still remains the same B.O.B. ... and pronounced, makes a good description of their constant levitation stabilization routines.

Congratulations to Kaczmanchoy for suggesting the winning name!

The winning name will be applied to this mob in game when the AFS returns Earth in D15!

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