
09-01-2017, 07:09
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 893
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Re: Fuel Seems Undercosted
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Originally Posted by StevenB
I think this is unlikely. I don't know how the GDC tests the game, but I'm willing to bet they've evaluated the point values pretty carefully, and picked these values because they're confident it will make the game play well.
There are lots of reasons to care about the fuel balls, which have been discussed in this thread. Don't underestimate it just because it has a low point value.
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I don't know if they still do this, but back in the day, there were a few teams that played a prototype game in the fall. Changes get made based on learning and then the game gets released. Two of my classmates in college were on fall teams in high school.
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Student FRC23 (1996-1999), Mentor FRC246 (2000), Mentor FRC1318 (2007-2009), Mentor FRC93 (2011), Mentor FRC2151 (2012), Mentor FRC23 (2013), Mentor FRC4761 (2014-2017)
1998 - National Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers Award (FRC23, Mike Bastoni ) | 2007 - PNW SF (488, 1595) | 2008 - Oregon RCA - Seattle #2 Seed, SF (488, 1696) | 2009 - Oregon #1 Seed, Winners (1983, 2635) - Seattle SF (945, 2865) - Galileo #2 Seed, SF (973, 25) | 2012 Midwest F (111, 71) | 2014 RIDE Winners (78, 125), Inspector - NEU #24, QF (3479, 3958) - NECMP #35 | 2015 Reading #11, SF (1058, 190), Inspector - RIDE #17, QF(4055, 5494), Inspector - NECMP #57 | 2016 Reading #4, SF (133, 4474), DCA, Inspector - Ride #22, SF (1735, 2067), Creativity, Inspector - NECMP #48, RCA - Archimedes
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