[Dranyam]

the "xxxx" that collmando removed from the conversation is me.

Let me explain. I knew that he understood so i didn't articulate it very well in the conversation.

The baseball analogy doesn't fit, because in sports the only "device" you have on the playing field is a human. Now of course there is a measure of natural variation in the human species, but it is MUCH less than the variation in the size and shapes of robots. Since the variation in humans is so low, pretty much any rule you make is going to affect everyone the same way, and therefore be a fair rule, more or less.

When your players are robots which run the gamut in terms of length, width, height, drivetrain, grasping mechanisms, etc, a rule such as the one that they've passed will affect the different robots in wildly different ways.

That was my point, anyway.

as it is, i think this rule would've been fine if it had been released a reasonable amount of time BEFORE ship... But this late in the game is definitely NOT the time to be changing the rules so significantly.