Rules for a casual pick-up robotics game

[kenfox]

Originally Posted by EricH

Just as a suggestion, I would have a diameter or radius measurement on the circle

Good idea. We've been using a 100' electrical cord laid on the ground. If we were using chalk it would make sense to sweep it out on a string.

I would also have some minor questions on items that--for some reason--get stuck in between the two circles, if neither human nor robot can enter them. Simply: How do they re-enter play?

The github project has some safety and miscellaneous rules, but loopholes are something I'm worried about so I didn't include them here. Right now we allow human players to briefly enter the safety zone to retrieve an item. I like your idea to push them back in with a broom or something, although human players with poles might be less safe than just picking them up?

And one final item: If an alliance happens to drop one or more of their flags into the goal, is the flag in question considered as cleared or in that alliance's sector? Just a *bit* of a loophole that I can see pretty clearly, could have an impact on gameplay.

I think we'd consider the flag outside the field, so the team putting the flag into the goal would not be able to put any more balls into play since a human player would not be able to put the flag back into play.