[tindleroot]

Stronghold is so great that there is not much that I can say about what would need to be changed. After a bit of reflection, there are only two "flaws" in the game:

1. Due to the amount of low robots and the high limits for bumpers, it is easy for robots to end up on top of each other, or other sorts of bad situations like that.

2. Some of the defenses can get balls trapped on them effectively blocking off the defense. Namely, boulders can get stuck in the moat, under the cheval-de-frise, and in the cloth of the low goal (and if two boulders or more get stuck on the low goal, which is easy with the HP lane right there, it is nearly impossible to go through the low bar without getting penalized)

The game has very few flaws, and those it does have are from sources that are hard to find compromise from. If I were the GDC, I would try to design games that are different in challenge, but similar in nature, of Stronghold.