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Originally Posted by Chuck Glick
Why dump only 4?
Take 2x 3pt penalties and score the last two colored discs too. Still a net gain of 4 points.
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A strategy designed around intentionally taking penalties is a good way to get a red card. It's one thing to occasionally take a protected zone penalty or similar during a match and have it turn out to have a positive effect for your alliance (tubes in lanes in 2011 is a good example), but building a robot around doing so will violate the perennial "spirit of the game" rules.
Still, it's not a good idea to design a game where breaking the rules helps you. GDC should have written the rule so that each extra disc is penalized according to the maximum amount of points it could score. White discs cost 3 points, and coloured discs cost 5.