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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
"five 'bots tangling with pasta"
I think of pasta as meatballs and spaghetti. I think a great game would involve the human players having balls (like 2000)
and the spaghetti being a new game object similar to a pool noodle. The pool noodles would be randomly placed around the field.
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Interesting thought. The pool noodles are not used for scoring, but are impediments to picking up balls, or for some robots moving about the field.
If that's so, then it really doesn't matter how much the noodles get destroyed at a regional, because they would get recycled (hopefully) after it is over. You'd have a constant consumable cost for each regional. Probably replacing the noodles periodically during quals and moreso during playoffs.
If the game is designed properly, these obstacles could put the kibosh on high speed ramming. Thereby, eliminating one of the rants people have about the referee's "judgement calls" concerning intent.
(I know, I know, build a better game, and the world isn't going to beat a path to your door, someone will just build a better "bash bot".)