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Unread 17-01-2004, 17:47
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Re: Good strategy?

our team talked about this idea, catching all the balls as they fall, and we decided not to use it. Reasons being:

1. its all or nothing - if it fails to work you get none of them - if you are tying to get the balls in auton mode, and something goes wrong, the balls will be all over the field, and you will have no way to collect them.

2. its complex to build, would be vunerable to damage, and might be difficult to fix between matches

3. as the game is being played you need to keep the HP supplied with a steady stream of balls - this approach would dump all the balls on one human player all at once, and your bot would probabally have to stay there for a while - 18 balls wont fit in the corral all at one time, so your bot is not free to go do a different task. we decided it would be more time effecient to gather a few balls, deliver them, then gather a few more.... or go after the 2X ball in between gathering.