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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
I never try to guess what the GDC is thinking...
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Oh, but you should try it, Jane! It's fun, like jigsaw puzzles or murder mysteries!
Seriously, I believe the GDC has two overarching objectives:
(1) they want the game to visually promote FIRST's core values -- two robots from opposing alliances striving cooperatively to balance the center bridge is a powerful image. (EDIT: see Taylor's example below.) And,
(2) they want us to think until it hurts. Introducing game-theory based ideas (Prisoner's Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium, etc.) with tangible and immediate results forces a kind of thinking that conventional sports do not. That thinking experience has real-life value -- life is more complex than sport.
I love the coopertition bridge. And I love that it has forced the top-tier teams to build robots for both qualifying and elimination strategies. I commented in the 67 pit at Waterford that, because of their strategy, losing a qualifying match to them is like winning, and defeating them in a qualifying match is like winning twice. So every team should want to see HOT in as many qualifying matches as possible, whether as an opponent or an ally. How
cool HOT is that?
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)