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Re: 2014 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace View Post
FIRST could find some people like that in the FRC community, independent of the GDC, to try and break the game. I think Paul Copioli has already volunteered to do that for free.
I've thought for years that the GDC should release the game to a few groups with prior FRC experience to develop the same questions that all teams do in the first two or three days of meetings.

At least half the Q&A issues could be addressed prior to release that way, and teams could get the manual as it would normally stand after the first update or two. It just stuns me that they released this years game with wording that made it possible to do stuff like truss and catch your own ball. How was that ever not identified as something every single team would identify as a possible sneaky tactic?

I think the GDC is just too close to the game as they develop it and can't/don't think of all the ways that teams will come up with to break it.
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