[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Nimmy

the backbot, on all our strategies collected balls all the time
but we had a few ideas for him
for example have the backbot pile up lots of balls infront of the corner goals
and pick up ALL balls from the field, arranging them according to the teams capabilities, also during the defensive period our HM's will throw balls continusly towards the bot for him to organize the balls

And what would keep another robot on offense to go behind the line with 5 seconds left in the period and either knock away all of the carefully arranged balls or simply scoop them up? It may be better to have a scooper that can spit them out into another robot's scooper... or just score everything it has.



My revision to having the backbot scoop up balls... sure, have your human players throw balls to the backup and have it ready to be scored, but also fill up a robot that is conveniently blocking a goal (assign a robot that has a hopper to do this task). with time remaining in the quarter, have both this robot and the backbot rush to the corner goals before the offensive team has time to block either, and dump all balls in inventory. Consider this like a fast break in basketball. nothing says your defensive robots have to be back there the entire time, you may have a 3 v 1 situation if you wish to catch them offgaurd. This would work especially well if you can tell that the offense is starting to run out of balls but would not be expecting to block a fast break.


One last comment, there is no reason to have to excuse your typos, thats what spell check is for