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Originally Posted by ChrisH
Bumping somebody's robot, while it might interfere with a robot's autonomous program, is part of the game. It is possible to anticipate this and if you are really good, work around it using sensors. If you are indeed using guidance, rather than dead reckoning (gee I wonder why they call it that?  ) then a bump will be no more than an inconvienience.
But doing something deliberate to cause another's robot to see something that isn't there, is an entirely different matter. The nice term is "spoofing". It means making a something appear that isn't really there. The not so nice term is "lying". When you do this you are deliberately causing the sensor to tell the robot's RC an untruth. Lying is never GP.
If the rules specifically allowed this sort of thing and we were expected to cope, then that would be a different thing.
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I'll just say that I don't agree with this interpretation of GP. I'm of the opinion that it is futile and silly to try to apply GP to the entire game. If my plan was lying to a robot, then removing tetras from under a goal is stealing. Pushing another robot is assault. Actually breaking another robot is commiting grievous bodily harm, even if accidental. I could go on, but I think my point is clear. The game is the game, and robots are robots. Anthropomorphizing the robots and their actions is just silly and leads to some very odd conclusions.
I've been in the position of having a robot blocked and effectively immobilized so that we could do nothing against our opponent to win the match. I never once thought that they weren't playing fair or were being unGP by preventing us from doing anything. I was highly frustrated, but accepted the fact that they'd out-thought us and had a better designed robot. Or used their robot more effectively.