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Re: lamancy in the games

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
Pucks in hockey.
One aspect of the games I would like to see change is the interaction between robots, and 3 on 3 robot hockey would be a good example.

In recent years, most alliances have worked together in an individual manner. (Team XXX plays defense against Team ZZZ, and Team YYY will fend off defender WWW while shooting at the goal.) The robots have not been challenged to act harmoniously to achieve a goal. I know many folks did not like the 2001 game, because of its' indirect competitiveness, but the robots that year were forced to work together as a unit, not individually to achieve the alliance goals.

There have been posts this year talking about "feeder robots", and that may have happened, but to a very small degree overall. Otherwise, robots have acted on their own to accomplish their part of the alliance goal.

A hockey type game though would force the robots to work together and set up passing plays. (i.e., the robot who carries the puck across the "blue" line cannot be the robot who scores, unless the puck is passed to a partner and returned to the original robot, or stolen by an opponent and stolen back) I would love to see more interaction in this manner, rather than the manner in which current games are designed. This is just an example, there are many quirky rules that would need to be hammered out, but the idea of having alliances interact with each other to win is the key point.
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