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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas

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Originally Posted by F22Rapture View Post
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I'm interpreting this that you don't have to "climb" the first level, merely touch it. So maybe if you did a Robot-in-3-days-esque climber that barely lifts the robot at all, and that would be enough to "contact" the first level and continue on to the second.
I think the hard part is not re-contacting the floor once you've lifted yourself onto level one. A level-one chin-up will be difficult to turn into a level-two climb, methinks...

Those grippers that just don't slide when they grab a pipe might damage the powdercoat, and that might disqualify mechanisms from gameplay. (I'm not sure on that one, but it's worth considering.)
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