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Re: Team Update #1

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Originally Posted by Swampdude View Post
I'm surprised nobody seems upset about the descoring issue. I've wasted 2 unpaid days heading in that direction.. Where do I send the bill? I don't see how this game is affected much by the robots. The human players will have the trailers half full by the end of autonomous. So now we're trying to fight over a few supercells and a few moonrocks the whole match? not to mention if we want a decent drive system, we're left with barely any room (within the bumper perimiter) to pick up balls. It seems like they want a tie every match regardless of effort. Sorry but I'm really dissapointed with this one...
Have you built a trailer and tried to get orbit balls in? It's hard. Really freakin' hard. I'm not much of a basketball player, but I couldn't get them in when the goal was 10 feet away, yet alone moving all over the place! Up until this point I think we've really really over-estimated the human players ability to score. You've got to hit an area marginally larger than the ball itself. Sure, if a robot sits still in autonomous, there most of the 20 will make it in. If a robot dies near the other alliances Human Player, most of the 20 will go in. Barring that, the humans will be really really ineffective.
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