How Will Logomotion Play Out and Develop?

[pfreivald]

In my analysis of the game, the offensive robot will be better able to use the tower as a pick than the defensive robot will, due to penalties for lane incursion. This in and of itself will limit (but not eliminate, of course) defensive effectiveness.

Have I missed something? Am I just flat wrong?

It's happened before. I hope it hasn't happened this time!

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

In my analysis of the game, the offensive robot will be better able to use the tower as a pick than the defensive robot will, due to penalties for lane incursion. This in and of itself will limit (but not eliminate, of course) defensive effectiveness.

Have I missed something? Am I just flat wrong?

It's happened before. I hope it hasn't happened this time!

I personally think that the offending robot would get the penalties, if there were to be any. (or at least in my interpretations of strategy). Now the robot DOING the ramming is getting the penalty I presume. What if my strategy just consists of getting in the way, driving perpendicular of the offending robot' velocity. Now work is not done by the defending robot in the collision, the offending bot is. Essentially it is a t bone crash.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

I personally think that the offending robot would get the penalties, if there were to be any. (or at least in my interpretations of strategy). Now the robot DOING the ramming is getting the penalty I presume. What if my strategy just consists of getting in the way, driving perpendicular of the offending robot' velocity. Now work is not done by the defending robot in the collision, the offending bot is. Essentially it is a t bone crash.

Robot contact has nothing to do with it... I don't think there are any penalties for such a thing in Logomotion.

The difference is that the offensive robot can move into/out of their lane without penalty, while even incidental incursion by a defensive robot will cause a penalty -- or a RED CARD if they touch the offensive robot. Thus, the defensive robot must be much more careful than the offensive robot, because there are two lanes of ingress/egress permitted to the lane.