16-05-2009, 13:47
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
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Re: Did Lunacy really level the playing field?
217 certainly did shooters right. They basically maximized on all of the advantages of a shooter design while eliminating the disadvantages with sheer speed. And that "shoot over robot that is pinning us" trick was one of the things that made me go "man I wish I thought of that!".
at least we got the speed part down
Meanwhile, other well-built robots with high capacity that could only shoot 1-3 balls per second did not do as well, "giving shooters a bad name". The ones that could needed a pinning partner or extreme mobility to go in, get a few balls in at a time, then leave.
By the end of the season I just ended up calling all of the fast shooters "turreted dumpers", as that's really how they acted.
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