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Originally Posted by wo-bot 141
NO MORE BUMPERS where did the tough metal on metal go? the bumpers make the robots look like bumper cars. i want to see damage, this way we can see how a team can make repairs in time before the next match. make a robot that can take a good hit. that's what i want to see in next years game. i understand that in 2008 if you didn't have bumpers you weren't going to last long in this game. Bumpers can go.
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I would settle for optional bumpers. Give teams the option of protecting their robot (enabling some of the cool construction methods we've seen in the past couple years - there was a reason you didn't see many monocoque or sheet metal robots around in 2003), but also give them the option of eschewing bumpers for aesthetic or gameplay purposes.
However, please keep wedges illegal and restrict contact to the bumper zone (even if there are no bumpers). Otherwise you will see a proliferation of wedge bots because anyone who doesn't have one will be at a huge disadvantage (in most games anyhow).