Defensive Strategy - cornering opponents ball

[Shadow503]

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

Alex, I'll be honest with you. Your argument reminds me of one you would hear from a spoiled rich kid with a sports car who gets pulled over for speeding.

Geez, has our discussion really regressed to personal attacks? I care little for how you interpret my arguments.

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

Defense is a valid strategy, and as an offensive robot, you must play through it or lose. Also, if defense-oriented robots were so weak and flimsy, you should have no trouble dealing with them unless your robot is similarly weak or flimsy; all you have to do is push them out of the way. In addition, a strategy that has severely damaging or destroying opposing robots as one of its main goals has no place in this game, and I would hope the refs would DQ any team trying such a foul strategy.

You're sending mixed messages. At first you say that offensive bots should have no problem dealing with defense bots if they are weak. Then immediately after that you condemn damaging opposing robots. I'm not sure I understand exactly what you propose offensive bots do.

I'll clarify my previous statement. The goal of my strategy is to simply dislodge the ball. The last thing I want to do is to destroy another teams robot. Herodotus suggested pushing, and I agree with him. This will allow competitive bots with a good drive train to move the pinning bot. Yes, my suggestion for high speed ramming may have been blunt. Pushing is a more reasonable solution.

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

A side note, calling other robots "half-finished" or "defective" is just bad manners, and is very rude.

I'm only using words that were used by supporters of pinning in the past few pages. Is it really rude if I haven't actually named any robots? Please consider your own personal attacks when you wish to point fingers about being rude.