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Re: Just where are vision "bonus" tetras placed?

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Originally Posted by dlavery
A RED vision tetra placed on the center goal will result in a RED bonus tetra being placed on each of the corner goals on the RED end of the field. A RED vision tetra place on the "middle column" goal on the edge of the field will result in a RED bonus tetra being place on the corner goal on the RED end of the field on the same field edge.

The animation shown during the kick-off is correct (there is no "animation artists' license"). RED places one vision tetra on the center goal, and one vision tetra on the edge goal, resulting in one bonus tetra in one RED corner, and two bonus tetras in the other RED corner. The "Human-bot" demonstrations were also correct.

The caption under the illustration in the manual is incorrect. It was written for a prior version of the artwork. During a revision in the artwork, the field image was flipped end-for-end, and the caption was not updated accordingly (we were really, really tired and missed it). This will be corrected in an update.

No criticism intended in the "artistic license" comment, I just didn't see the RED robot cap the center goal near the edge during autonomous mode. I did see both RED vision tetras under the control of RED robots, but the robot carrying the vision tetra "upside-down" drives out of view in the animation. Later in the animation there are indeed two RED vision tetras on center column goals.

I think your animation is totally awesome. It's incredible that you have enough energy to produce this when you're away from your day job of exploring the entire solar system .

This will be a great game to prepare for, play and watch. Kudo's to the game design team...

And thanks for clearing up the ambiguity with regards to the figure caption.
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