Team Update #7

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by Mr.G

Yet another major rules change 3 weeks in with the deletion of :

Once a GAME PIECE has been released by the POSSESSING ROBOT (even momentarily) and is HANGING (e.g. it is fully supported by the PEG), it is considered to be HANGING until the end of the match.

We had planned to just move around the game pieces by taking them on and off each peg. Using one of each game piece to do the whole rack. We think we could do one full rack this way with just our robot. Now our current design is not optimized for the new game design. Why can't they just leave the rules alone instead of constantly changing them.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the intent of that rule was to insure that pieces accidentally knocked off of pegs would still be considered scored. The GDC (I'm guessing again) probably changed the rule because of strategies like that which go against the intent of the game.

Our team found the same strategy, but didn't design around out: we figured the GDC would realize their mistake and fix it ASAP. No one wants to watch a game where a robot just places and replaces a logo piece.