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Re: Canburglar Safety

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Originally Posted by Bennett548 View Post
Seeing more safe canburglars at Bedford has eased my concern a little bit.

My guess is that can burglars will get about 20% faster by the end of the season, and I think this can be accomplished with little to no stored energy, making them much safer than the giant hair-trigger mousetraps I was worried about before.
How fast the fastest canburglars get will be determined largely by how quickly they can release massive amounts of stored energy.

This is a dangerous challenge. The GDC designed it to be an incredibly dangerous challenge. (I ask myself again, why?) Teams that intend to go head-to-head on Einstein have exactly zero reason to stop at ~20% faster, and they certainly have no reason not to store energy. This is essentially an arms race; the public time to beat is already like 0.25s. Beyond that, it's mostly a hidden war, but I've inspected (and reffed next to) several stored energy grabbers thus far.
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