Overdrive <G22> poll: yea or nay?

[deshirider430]

I believe the rule should only be called if a robot completely enters the quadrant previous to the one it is currently in.

1. This is a hard penalty to call, if you barely touch the line after crossing the line it could induce a penalty. Also traffic builds up around the turns. If your robot has already crossed the line it can't maneuver to get to the open lane, it has to wait till the spot it is in clears up.

2. This is hard for drivers, the rumors you hear about positions 1 and 3 are true, you can't see very well on the other end of the field. Personally I can't even tell if we are playing 2 robots or three robots at the beginning of the game let alone judge where my teams robot is on the field.


If the rule was changed like this, the amount of penalty's would drop significantly and there would be less games decided on penalty's.

[DarkFlame145]

I agree that part of your bot should be able to cross the line, but not the whole bot. Personally I dont like it when penalties make or break a match, but on a better note, I dont think 145 got a line violation at FLR.

[Racer26]

I think this rule could use a tweak so as to better follow the INTENT of the rule, since thats what the GDC seems to be all about this year (in some cases even going so far as to say do what we meant, not what we said). Some way to allow small portions of the robot (ie. the corner of a steering skid steer bot) to break the plane without inducing a penalty

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by deshirider430

I believe the rule should only be called if a robot completely enters the quadrant previous to the one it is currently in.

exactly my view

-Vivek