Venko
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| Rank | Forum Member | |
| Political Stance | Forum Arsonist, Drama Queen, Informationalist, Innovationalist | |
| Grudge / Ally Status | ||
| Allies With | Madiaba, Trovaner, Gigafrost and others | |
| Grudges With | Mostly Pyscolone and InfiniteInertia | |
| Fear Rating |  15/100
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| Respect Rating | 20/100
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Overview
Venko has been a member of the forums for nearly a year, though is hardly there now. He still appears from time to time.
During the few months after his arrival, he learned quickly and was one of the most active bot builders on the Gametechmods forums, before his departure near the middle of September 2008. He claims he can build any type of bot, but he likes to build ultra powerful SuperHeavyWeights or freak bots just for fun, that is why he claims he is a "bot artist". He is the only Bulgarian on the forum.
He is very good at glitches and excellent in stacking (Perhaps because of his glitchy game. The real reason of this is unknown) which has caused some members to accuse him of cheating (notably AAM) , but he made a video as proof against this accusation. Several members didn't find it very convincing, but some other members testified several of Venko's claims, like stacking crossed black batteries.
His showcase, which was a major Flame war thread but calmed eventually, is the basis for the Venko Effect, named so by Naryar. (All the flaming, and hence a page of Venko's history, was deleted by Clickbeetle some time ago)
Venko is one of the few builders that don't build in DSL. He just doesn't have enough time to learn and experiment with all the new parts in DSL.
Venko tried to decompile the RA2 .EXE back to C++[Assembler] so that someone that can program in C++[Assembler] could edit it, potentially changing the game's deepest features, but he did not succeeded and it seems impossible to edit the .exe. With this, his dreams of a .GIF chassis paintjob (animated paintjob) or a .TGA chassis paintjob (transparent paintjob) disappeared too.
Venko is currently hosting his Stock Freak Bot design contest A.D.D.I.C.T.. He released the video (which shows how the bots work) for it, as well as the bot pictures for those who don't want to get the near 80-MB video; votes are nearly finished and Venko will probably come back soon, to reveal the winner.
He finished his .TGA Alpha Channel Tutorial that aims to help others edit or create all the .TGA (transparent) decals, component skins, UIs, and arena skins for RA2. He is also contributing (bots, skins, UI's) to some of the many AI packs being created on the gametechmods forums, most of which have not been released yet.
Also entered Mace in da face (36-mace HS) in BBEANS5 and Anti-pacman (6-mace HS) in Robo Zone.
Notable Bots:
SHW-The Infinite, Venko's first SHW bot:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/945/theinfinitehu8.gif
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6135/theinfinite2kx7.gif
