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Andrew Lawrence 08-12-2011 19:00

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
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Originally Posted by LedLover96 (Post 1089553)
I see robot damage in our future...

Someone probably said the same when someone suggested trackballs in 2008! Imagine your robot getting hit with a football vs. a trackball.

Or worse, do what our robot did: Take a soccer ball straight to the hanging mechanism in 2010. :p

Bottom line is for the most part, if there's flying/moving objects, something CAN get damaged. Doesn't mean it will.

plnyyanks 08-12-2011 21:02

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 (Post 1089639)
Bottom line is for the most part, if there's flying/moving objects, something CAN get damaged. Doesn't mean it will.

But Murphy's Law says that you'll be one match from winning your Regional, when your robot WILL get damaged. Design with durability in mind. Plan for the worst, hope for the best (but, like our coach always says: "hope is not a strategy").

Andrew Lawrence 08-12-2011 21:05

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
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Originally Posted by plnyyanks (Post 1089683)
But Murphy's Law says that you'll be one match from winning your Regional, when your robot WILL get damaged. Design with durability in mind. Plan for the worst, hope for the best (but, like our coach always says: "hope is not a strategy").

Oh, how I LOVE Murphy's Law! :D Everything bad happening almost exactly when it is at the most inopportune (Vocab word, my English teacher will be so proud!) time.

Somewhere, in a grave far away, Murphy is laughing at us.

IndySam 08-12-2011 21:11

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by plnyyanks (Post 1089683)
But Murphy's Law says that you'll be one match from winning your Regional, when your robot WILL get damaged. Design with durability in mind. Plan for the worst, hope for the best (but, like our coach always says: "hope is not a strategy").

I'm going to disagree with your coach. Hope is a strategy, just not a very good one :)

Sean Raia 08-12-2011 21:42

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
This game hint has been pretty uninspiring so far :-(

Is there a reason for the 2 extra high speed counters? Why not just 250?
That seems like the last thing that is left to dissect on this hint.

Andrew Lawrence 08-12-2011 21:47

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
Dear GDC,
We've extensively scrutinized the game hint you gave us, and have so far extracted about 98% of the information available on it, current knowledge permitting. Therefore, we would appreciate it if you released the second game hint before we start getting bored, and the crowd starts dying down. It is for your best interest in which I say, "RELEASE ANOTHER GAME HINT!!!!".

Thanks!

Best regards,
Andrew Lawrence

P.S: Tell Dean I said Hi! :D

Sean Raia 08-12-2011 22:02

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That extra two must have been ordered to send us a message of some sort, it does not add up no matter how you slice it...

2 extra counters, its got to mean something.

OR
It's late and i am grasping at straws to revive the discussion on this hint.

EDIT: Two more teams on the field? Not likely, but that's the direction my thoughts are going.

WizenedEE 08-12-2011 22:51

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We may want to keep in mind that this might not be everything FIRST "ordered" since it's just the parts that Rockwell was gracious enough to donate. Maybe they needed 1000 of a part and Rockwell agreed to give them 250.

DavisC 08-12-2011 23:06

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Backups? Idk, a new game hint must be released tomorrow or else I will fall into depression over the weekend...

And actually, the blog never truly states that the List is THIS years parts. I guess it is possible this is actually a list from a year like Aim High (but I doubt this is the case)

plnyyanks 08-12-2011 23:12

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
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Originally Posted by DavisC (Post 1089709)
Backups? Idk, a new game hint must be released tomorrow or else I will fall into depression over the weekend...

Once upon a time, we could call on Super Dave to save the day, but alas, we are all now at the mercy of the GDC.

pfreivald 08-12-2011 23:51

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Speaking of donations, if any of y'all haven't taken advantage of Gates's offer, it's great! They're allowing ~20-ish products, and some of those sprockets are awfully darn expensive!

It's allowing us to prototype an octocanum modification we've been wanting to do for a while.

So, yeah. Not about the game hint, but I saw the word 'donations' and thought, "DOOOOOOOooooooo it!"

EricH 08-12-2011 23:51

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
Actually, back in my day, we waited for Lavery Claus to give us hints.

(Now it seems that jolly St. Bill has to fill in the gap :p...)

akoscielski3 09-12-2011 07:35

Re: First Official 2012 Game Hint
 
This may have already been said (as im am not going to read every single post, sorry). but i think that we are suppose to be looking more at the chart, rather than the parts in it. though with the high speed counting things it does seem to be something like an Aim High game (which would be awesome! i loved that game, maybe cause it was the first FRC game i saw live). for the chart idea it could mean something with stacking game pieces onto one another, but then where would the very fast counters be in play? maybe end game?

MattC9 09-12-2011 11:25

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Originally Posted by akoscielski3 (Post 1089731)
This may have already been said (as im am not going to read every single post, sorry). but i think that we are suppose to be looking more at the chart, rather than the parts in it. though with the high speed counting things it does seem to be something like an Aim High game (which would be awesome! i loved that game, maybe cause it was the first FRC game i saw live). for the chart idea it could mean something with stacking game pieces onto one another, but then where would the very fast counters be in play? maybe end game?

Can we find old documentation on the aim high fields?

plnyyanks 09-12-2011 11:46

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Originally Posted by MattC9 (Post 1089770)
Can we find old documentation on the aim high fields?

Aim High Game Documents

Official Field Drawings


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