05-03-2014, 13:37
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
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Re: Game Manual - Team UPDATE - 2014-03-04
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Originally Posted by Rynocorn
When reading through the manual on kickoff day, our team strongly considered building "flaps" to extend outward and assist in catching the ball but we ended up deciding not to pursue it a strong part because of the penalty for extending outside the field. Now that this is changed, we are going to attatch a blocker/catcher because we do not have to worry as much about this any more. A little unfortunate for us as we could have worked on it during the season seeing as we thought it through but it's all good!!
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If I understand correctly, it is still against the rules to intentionally extend outside the field. The human player penalty just changes if it occurs inadvertently.
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