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Re: Loose Balls

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Originally Posted by iCurtis

If 1 robot per alliance can pick them up and transfer them to an open hopper quickly, as Paul suggested, I would say your okay, but that brings up the question, if they can hold up your ball collector, can they starve you of balls?
That is an awesome strategy. This game allows for such awesome strategy, its amazing. Wouldn't making a ball collecting/shooting robot be too complex it may break down too easily or just plain not work?

Should shooter bots incorporate a hopper that allows alliance gatherers to unload in their bots? Should gathering robots have a mechanism to unload balls into shooting robots?

Advantages: Gatherers do their thing, shooter's don't have to load themselves or run back to the alliance ball corrals.

Disadvantages: BIGGEST: with one but not the other, this strategy fails. Easily defended.

Verdict: A nice idea, but unrealistic.

Do you think that most robots will be:

Gatherers/Unloaders or Shooters but not both?
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