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Unread 04-01-2009, 03:04
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Re: robot design question

A neat design, nice drafting in the short time since kickoff.

My $0.02 is that with such a design, and the way it effectively eats your entire size envelope, you cant hopper up the balls to bring them to your human players more effectively, and you can't really fit a launcher in there either, meaning two key ways of scoring are severely hindered... not sure if its a net gain or not.

EDIT: also, the CoG being off center like that could make you easily tippable/have problems with moving on this already difficult to move on surface.

Furthermore, strategies like this will just make the human players go for your teammates goals, since they're wide open they're more likely to score there, rendering the protection they give more or less redundant.

Last edited by Racer26 : 04-01-2009 at 03:07.