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Originally Posted by Shadow503
The game creators intended to reduce pinning.
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Then why didn't they simply outlaw it? Reduce <> prohibit.
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I have a counter pinning strategy: high speed ramming.
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So to counteract a strategy that is not prohibited in the rules, you will employ a strategy that deliberately breaks the rules. And you're questioning the other team's GP?
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Originally Posted by Shadow503
A yellow card is just a warning, and it also disappears once the finals start.
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But a second yellow card results in a DQ. And each and every one after that results in a DQ. You won't be racking up many wins in qualifying matches that way. And who would choose a robot in an alliance that might get the whole alliance DQ'd in the eliminations?
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135 degree angles on the walls. A right angle would be much more easily manufactured, but the GDC still chose to use 135 angles (which make it more difficult to pin).
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And it would be easier to hurdle if the overpass was only 4.5 feet tall, not 6.5. I guess that means the GDC didn't intend us to hurdle, else they wouldn't have made it so difficult.
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If you also look at the other rules, they discourage defensive play this year.
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Some kinds of defense are outlawed. How do you jump to the conclusion that this discourages all defense?
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I'm pretty sure the GDC doesn't want four bots to park themselves in the corners pinning balls while the other two remaining bots run laps. That leads to very dry gameplay.
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If they had not wanted that, why didn't they say so in the rules? There's been no Team Updates since Week 2. Don't you think they would have changed the rule if that's what they really wanted?