Safety Zone on Playing Field

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Not for an on-board sensor.

Jason

Hmmmm unless you are projecting your sensor in front of you... I think you would be in violation if your sensor "saw" the line..

I guess that would be possible.. I have just never done it...usually straight up and down has worked with ours...

[fox46]

What happens if a robot attempts to block you from entering the safe zone and you push them in on your way to score?

[45Auto]

What happens if a robot attempts to block you from entering the safe zone and you push them in on your way to score?

<G61> The actions of an ALLIANCE shall not cause an opposing ALLIANCE to violate a rule and thus incur PENALTIES. Any rule violations committed by the affected ALLIANCE shall be excused, and no PENALTIES will be assigned.

[fox46]

Hmm- don't like that one... So as long as you get your opponent to push you into their scoring area you can harass them all you want?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by fox46

Hmm- don't like that one... So as long as you get your opponent to push you into their scoring area you can harass them all you want?

Not anymore. See Team Update #6

[sircedric4]

And it looks like by my fellow mentor bringing up the flaw in the "safe zone", the taking a 3 point penalty to stop a 36 point logo score, the GDC has taken notice. Team Update 6 makes it a death knell to enter the safe zone to block an opposing team score. The penalty is even greater than the pinning penalty. Automatic yellow card, and if you contact another robot it's a red card.

On one hand I am happy to see this change in the rules, because if it happens to us we have a specific ruling to pull out. We have been planning all along to be sitting in our safe zone scoring, so any discussion we had was in fear of the worst happening to us. This update pretty much makes the safe zones inviolate.

On the other hand, it is obvious that the GDC is making this game have shades of Overdrive with all the contact penalties and protected zones. I personally hated that aspect of Overdrive with the penalties more often than not deciding the matches. This almost makes defensive bots useless, which is a shame since a basic kitbot can't really do any scoring. This year is gonna be especially hard on the rookies I guess.

To stay on topic if you are completely inside your safe zone then you appear to be completely untouchable upon pain of lost game.