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Originally Posted by Jay Burnett
I think hockey would be a fun game to design for,(receiving the puck and shooting it out again) and it would also be very fun to watch. Because i know the unspeakable year 2009 has scarred many of you for life with the regolith feilds, hkey could be played without changing the floor material by adding rollers onto the bottom of the pucks. If the game is played like real hokey, there would be lots of contact and fighting for control of the puck, so defending the opposing alliance's robot away from the puck would be a valuable skill. It's also something that the BLTs and rookies could focus on and still be a valuable alliance partner. That said, the veterans and really good rookies (hopefully us this season) would focus on puck handling and scoring.
To keep play going after a score, one robot on the alliance that just got scored on would load a puck from the human player and then play would resume. The rules would be set so that members of the scoring alliance must be in their zone within 5 seconds of a goal happening, and can return to the other side after the puck is brought into the field of play.
Autonomous mode could be each robot shooting a preloaded puck into their goal. Robots would be lined up across from each other like this ~_~_~_. The end game is a little difficult, i can't come up with anything right now..... maybee the end game would be dropped because scoring would take such a long time with any passable defence.
That's my opinion, I hope the guys on the GDC read cd and pick this one up  |
I am a huge hockey fan (I love my St. Louis Blues!) and would love to see a hockey FRC game. Unfortunately, I don't think that it could be played like a real hockey game.
I think if it were hockey the regaloth would be a must. In hockey the ice is a major component on the game, and taking it out by using rollers wouldn't be much of a comparison.
Defense and checking is a huge variable in hockey, but being able to make a fight in FRC? that would be hard, when no one can get a 5 minute penalty or break a jaw. And everytime there is an incident will the refs stop the game? I doubt it.
Also, with the standard format of a 2 and 1/2 ish minute long game, it would be hard for much scoring to really occur using only one puck.
As much as I wish real hockey could be played, I just don't think the current situation is a very good fit. Now, if they played it Rebound Rumble style, this would be a great game.
