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Re: Will The GDC Change Climb Points?!?

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Originally Posted by akoscielski3 View Post
I guarantee you that if the 30 pt climb was worth more then 30pts more teams would have designed and built a robot to do the 30pt climb, however since the pts weren't as high, less teams did so. It would be very upsetting to a lot of team if they were to change the amount of pts awarded to a level 3 climb.
I agree completely. Many teams develop a strategy based around how the game is scored. They look at things like transit time, loading time, climbing time, and shooting time to evaluate trade-offs in different avenues of design.

Changing one of those metrics by 25%, or by about the amount you'd get with a transit of the field and a volley of 4 frisbees would drastically alter the model of the game, and invalidate a lot of the planning that went on to design the robots.
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