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Re: How can you help GDC make this game better?

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Originally Posted by Ken Patton View Post
It was sadly comical to watch how overloaded the hard-working refs were at Southfield, with keeping the iPad stands from tipping over, handing balls to human players, getting out of the way of reset workers, occasionally ducking from errant shots, watching the action, communicating to each other, and entering input into their iPads. It made for inconsistent calls because many infractions were unobserved, while other infractions were observed and called. Solution: scorekeepers with iPads set back from the field.
Ken, I WISH those touchscreens were iPads! Then we might not have to deal with lag, and maybe the pedestal issues would be resolved.

I also think that two more refs would be very handy, focusing on human actions, but that might just be me.
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