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Originally Posted by Boomer
Me too. I understand trying to have more human involvement during the game, but seriously, it seems that they have cut the actual robots role down to just about nothing. It will be interesting to see what people do to overcome this, but with the human scoring option, it will not have a high priority on teams schedules, and if they really do much it will be something minor right before shipping.
Also, another thing I don't like is the fact they changed some of the rules so much. Especially the expansion rule, and the fix-it window rule. What do they expect us to do, compete with robots that has something seriously wrong with it that does absolutely nothing much anyway?
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Human scoring is nothing new, my rookie year humans did all the scoring with the exception of hanging and a 2x multiplier. I would not agree that the robots won't be doing much, humans can't retrieve the balls themselves. Plus, pulling a trailer on ice is not fun. Heck, driving on ice is not fun trust me, I just had a real fun experience getting out of a friend's driveway 3 hours ago. Adding a trailer on makes life even worse, I think that building a trailer and practicing a TON will make or break teams this year. Driving elegantly will be simply amazing if any team can pull it off.
Fix it windows, I know that when I publish a change to a customer at work and have it break I dont have a week to go back to my code, I have a couple hours while things are broken and I have to fix things with the errors flying in. Eliminating fix it windows is, in my opinion ok. The only exception would be for Michigan teams, recall, we no longer have Thursday as a practice day so most of our matches are real matches. And frankly, if you build a machine that has something seriously wrong with it why should you get to copy the machines that are not wrong? Go play poker by that logic, "Oh, well, I shouldn't have put this much money on my hand because your hand is better, let me deal hands again so I can win."
Expansion, it is limiting, do I like it? No, but I will live with it and design around it. It could be fun to try to design a smaller robot with the larger control system. Think of it as a challenge not a limitation.
Ive said it before, I'll say it again, this game is growing on me. It is going to prove to be an interesting game to say the least.