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Re: Realistic high goal scoring rate

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
especially with a fast ground pickup. Shoot two hoppers of balls, pickup your misses for cycle 3.

I think really effective shooters will either have figured out the distance, speed, accuracy problem, or will shoot layups massively quickly with open top hoppers to recycle the misses. If it takes you 5 seconds to empty your hotter, your first misses are already back in it by the end.
I consulted a very, very intelligent aero friend of mine and called in a favor. His model indicates an optimistic 7 bps directly in front of the goal from a single stream shooter. Coincidentally the tube below the funnel will accommodate 3 fuel with 1/4" between game pieces and between game pieces and the wall. I'm seeing something on the order of 18-21 fuel per second in our future potentially. I will go on record as saying that you need some kind of metering ahead of your shooter and that interface will be EXTREMELY critical if you're aiming for this kind of Lunacy™.
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