2007 game field...

[Nica F.]

i think we should at least finish 2006's build season before we get into this subject. =]

[Joe O]

A mixture of terrain, including water traps. It will be the year when everyone will utilize the hovercraft (I wanted to use a hovercraft hybrid this year, but my team decided to go with wheels for the traction )

[Trousers]

Robot Cat duh!


other than that mail-boxes possibly JELLO

water game would be saweeet. but very dangerous i would guess

-Court-

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by CourtneyB

water game would be saweeet. but very dangerous i would guess

-Court-

Well yea, but of course if they make a game with water I'm pretty sure they will be alot more serious when the jeduges look at the robots and evaluate them making sure they are completely safe. There should be not a single chance of error with a game with water

[MC_Elroy]

We should have mailboxes so that the challenge could be to make the robots get the mail and bring it to the 'house'. Then after that the most successful robots can be patented, sold, and make loads of money for the builders!!!

I bet that would really bring the heat in competition and make very interesting!

[bk111]

Originally Posted by MC_Elroy

We should have mailboxes so that the challenge could be to make the robots get the mail and bring it to the 'house'. Then after that the most successful robots can be patented, sold, and make loads of money for the builders!!!

I bet that would really bring the heat in competition and make very interesting!

I think a security robot would be cool to develop. At Motorola we need escorts to and from the playing field. A security robot as an escort would make things loads more efficient.

[bk111]

I have something not listed in the poll: EM or audio spectrum based objectives. Like laser tag with robots! Imagine the savings with something like that. Instead of spending money on pieces like balls and tetras, you could build emitters and sensors. Though the items would cost more, you wouldn't need as many.

[gondorf]

i think that maybe they will have 2 playing fields of different shape to make teams have to make their autonomous modes adaptive to the field.

also having a field other than carpet would be interesting. perhaps cceramic tile slicked with oil? how about ice?

also working with bizarre materials like dry ice might be interesting

not jello but maybe pudding or pie filling

[DjAlamose]

Originally Posted by gondorf

i think that maybe they will have 2 playing fields of different shape to make teams have to make their autonomous modes adaptive to the field.

also having a field other than carpet would be interesting. perhaps cceramic tile slicked with oil? how about ice?

also working with bizarre materials like dry ice might be interesting

not jello but maybe pudding or pie filling

Think about safety hazards with dry ice. I’m gunna say no...
The mess pudding and jello and pie filling and oil would make is enormous. I’m gunna say no...
Ceramic tiles would break every now and then and would be a pain to set up. Again I’m gunna say no...

But i do like the idea of an oddly shaped field. Also a new surface to play on would be great, something more like wood panels, or diamond plate (they use enough of it already) or even HDPE for the entire field.

Also I would like to see another game where teams are al on the same alliance like in 2001, that would get rid of allot of this we need to be super defensive stuff.

[Donut]

How about a new field element? I say they go with a bridge, and change the height limit so that robots can fit underneath it. That would certainly throw off everyone being used to the standard 60" limit. There'd just be the problem of preventing one robot falling onto another...

A new field texture would be nice, but it would have to be something with similar conveniences to carpet (namely it can be rolled up for easy transportation, and would require little more assembly then the current sticking carpet to the ground needs). Plastic tile sheets might work, except for the problem of falling robots potentially cracking it.

[Rick TYler]

The bridge is intriguing, but why change the height limit? Give the teams some advantage in going under a 24-inch bridge, but including a scoring element that is eight feet high (or 20 feet high). The FIRST GDC needs to keep pushing us!

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

The bridge is intriguing, but why change the height limit? Give the teams some advantage in going under a 24-inch bridge, but including a scoring element that is eight feet high (or 20 feet high). The FIRST GDC needs to keep pushing us!

I really like that idea! There was one game like that...2002 maybe (I wasn't in it then) that they had a low bar (2-3 feet high) through the middle of the field. I do remember seeing a picture of a robot that collapsed all the way down, slid under and "decompressed" on the other side.

[bk111]

Originally Posted by gondorf

i think that maybe they will have 2 playing fields of different shape to make teams have to make their autonomous modes adaptive to the field.

also having a field other than carpet would be interesting. perhaps cceramic tile slicked with oil? how about ice?

also working with bizarre materials like dry ice might be interesting

not jello but maybe pudding or pie filling

Hmm, oil. Let's see, FIRE! The game would be a pyrofest.

[Cyberguy34000]

I think it would be cool to have marbles as game pieces. It would be unique because you'd pretty much have to treat it as a fluid and it would lead to some interesting concepts. Think about instead of scoring a large game piece, filling up an object with marbles and depending on how full it is that's what you are scored on? How would you collect something less than an inch off the ground?


Everything abot this idea is pretty cool but there's one reason why I can thing it won't happen... marbles are slippery... and they get everywhere... Imagine these little things getting all over the pits, and then at random you see people go airborne, carrying things... Yeah...

It would still be pretty cool though.