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Unread 12-04-2003, 21:27
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The playing feild has to be very basic and cheap, teams used to complain because fields cost too much and were impossible to be temporary. If you look at the past 4 years the fields have been about the same size, the perimiter railings very similar and the player stations virtually identicle. Having huge features is something avoided, like the hills they had a long time ago. 6 bots a a field would be fun but very crowded. This year looked crowded because the crates took up a good amount of room as well. I really can't see a big vs small aliiance because it would lead to enourmous damage to bots. The defender would just be a tank, the majority of teams would go modular and remove manipulators and add rams. Plus on a 3 vs 1 match one offenense could just pin the defender and the other 2 offense would have a field day.

The 3 on3 idea would be nice but you can still have some fun with it. What if you could 'tag' the third bot and take your bot out of play and put theres in. This could be as simple as 3 bots on the field for each team, 2 start activated a third is dead, every team is equiped with a 2001esk kill switch, when 1 of the active teams killed there bot the 3rd bot would activate. Or to make it more complex have an area dedicated to this 'tag'. This would give you the benefit of 6 bots but since only 4 could move it would be less 'busy' out there. Also if a bot were to throw a chain, tip over, or otherwise die you would have imediate backup (the reason alliance have always had the extra bot).

I enjoyed the freedome FIRST gave us there in the starting positions and hope its carried to next year. I'm not a fan of humans on the field to start, I prefer the oldschool human plays during the match.

As for fun thing to manipulate, noodles(the foam pool toys) would be great. Maybe road cones.

As for an obstacle, the rollers they have at factories and warehouses to slide boxes on. The passive ones not the powered. They would be fairly cheap and depending on there size also mobile. Plus they would be a major challange to get over.
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