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Re: [Official 2008 Game Design] OK, so YOU design the 2009 game...

PVC pipe works too.

As soon as you allow robots outside their vertical dimension, then you are going to be adding penalty rules for harsh contact, deliberately toppling over, etc.. I'd like to have a simple set of rules where there are no penalty rules except for exceptional actions, and no penalties for things that are likely to happen in every game - that's a sign of poor game design and confuses the spectators.

Scoring from inside the vertical dimension makes it quite challenging and the robot will have to launch the pipe or get real close and drop it through the lower holes. There's plenty of opportunity there for teams to be creative in pipe capture, handling, aiming and shooting.


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Originally Posted by Bob Steele View Post
Or even capped 4" PVC ....

I am not sure whether I like the idea of the robot having to stay in its vertical dimension...