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Unread 02-03-2009, 08:21
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Re: Human players are costing points

While I agree for the most part with what everyone has been saying about the penalties being almost exclusively with the human players, in our case it was our human player that saved our bacon more than once! He was absolutely beastly with the super cells! Part of our strategy was to collect the empties and deliver them to the air-lock. Because of our reversible conveyor that was pretty effective. It worked even better when an alliance partner could run a pick for us to keep us from getting our trailer filled while we did it.
The only thing I found strange was how many penalties were incurred for throwing an empty cell over the wall, even on experienced teams! I guess in the excitement they are just grabbing the wrong one.
The Robo-Lions will be "roaring" again at Chesapeake. See you there!
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