Re: 5th Gear
 

Just curious - do you guys keep working on 5th gear through competition season?

By the way, if anyone's bored, my high score is 48 so far.

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64 :)

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How do you score on the top row???

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Liftbot.

3 ubertubes up top, 4 squares up top, 2 mid, and a minibot.
The most I have gotten with logos is 62: 2 mid ubertubes, two mid logos, and a minibot.

I usually average 44-52.

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I got my score using the armbot and mid row logos. I have to spend the last second of the match jostling the circle into the very small position where the piece scores.

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We have the best of intentions, with bug fixes at the top of our to-do list; but life keeps getting in the way.

Taxes, business travel, putting on exhibits at Regionals, needing to buy a car, putting in overtime at work, vacations, etc. are all figuratively biting our ankles lately.

About the high scores, are you limiting yourselves to just scoring tubes? The minibot can quickly add 30 points to a score pretty easily.

Blake

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Nope. I also don't use Ubertubes (I don't think the "doubling" portion of an Ubertube score is implemented yet? Plus Ubertubes aren't really tubes that I scored...)

Scoring strategies are based on several constraints in this version of the software:

• The lifter cannot score a triangle.
• The armbot cannot reach the top row. The lifter can reach all but the center pegs in the top row.
• The circle is a very sensitive piece in terms of alignment; it often fluctuates between scored and not scored.

Given that, you can either go for scoring as many squares as possible with the lift, or making mid row logos with the arm.

Re: 5th Gear
 

Ive been wondering is there any computers you can set up also nice game we are thinking about doing a demo with this game:)

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This may be a silly question, but how do I play on the same computer that I'm hosting the server with? I just want to practice.
I see in the instructions is says "you should be able to give the Client instance that single computer’s Loop back IP address of 127.0.0.1" but I'm unsure of how this works/ changes.

Thanks for the help!

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I'm not sure what you are not sure about.

Start two separate copies of the software.

Give either copy the job of server.

Give the other copy the job of client. On the client's main menu, in the IP address field, put in "127.0.0.1". By default, In Windows, that IP address value allows two networking programs to communicate with each other through the operating system of the computer they are on. Their messages aren't sent to networks outside that one computer.

Try it, see what happens.

Blake

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I got it running! thanks, its way cool.

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A Cheesy Poof(s) is developing a 3D physics-based simulation to use with this season VRC Gateway game. Hooray for ambitious students!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=98115

http://www.vexforum.com/showthread.php?t=57829

Blake

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Errrrr... Logomotion game... How to pick up tubes? :confused:

It may be weird, but if Im bored I will usually fire up 5th gear and play the breakaway game ^^.

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It seems to be the most fun of the 4 games included. I actually play breakaway a few times a week.