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Unread 09-01-2017, 13:35
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Re: G28 Clarification - Air Powered Shooter

Because the rule allowed for using air on fuel in your bot's volume rather than ban air moving fuel entirely, it is reasonable to assume that the GDC had a reason to make this distinction. I can think of three reasons to use air to move fuel inside your volume

1) A system similar to a drive-up bank tube, to move fuel through a path in your robot, presumably to your shooter.
2) To agitate fuel in hopper to help it find its way to the shooter intake (like a lottery ball machine)
3) To actually shoot the fuel. If this was their intent, they didn't consider the final residual effect of air on the fuel after it left the volume, but perhaps that was an oversight.

Hoping they address this in the first update, rather than have to wait for the A to a Q.
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