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Originally Posted by dradel
Again responsibility for ones actions.
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I'm all for this.
Here is the problem as I see it though:
The penalty is not proportional to the danger level/strategic gain, it is in extreme excess of it. For all of you that are saying the points awarded for a technical foul is fine, why is the number 50 so perfect for you? If the human players really are in such extreme danger when they cross the line by 1/8", why not make it a 100 point penalty? Or a yellow card? The reason that this is ridiculous is because the entire game would then be defined by the one little mistake instead of what the game is actually about. What I believe is that the 50-point technical foul for this penalty
is already defining the game. Just look at the statistics on the percentage of matches decided by penalties to see what I mean. The punishment for breaking a rule should be proportional to the danger level or strategic gain that results from breaking this rule. There is almost no strategic advantage to crossing the line a little bit, and the dangers are basically nonexistent (since G41 covers all of the dangerous interaction). If the penalty for crossing the line were increased to 100 points, does anyone think that it would occur less often? I don't think it would, since the teams that know and understand this rule are already doing everything they can to stop it from happening, and the teams that don't know this rule still wouldn't know it after the change. In contrast, if the penalty were reduced to 20 points, does anyone realistically think that this would somehow encourage breaking this rule? I certainly don't. The HP that gets this penalty is going to feel terrible after the match either way. If she doesn't, then having a 50 point instead of a 20 point penalty will not make her feel worse.
Let's play a game that is defined by robots, not a game that is defined by somewhat arbitrary imaginary planes.