New Game Progress

[ebarker]

Somewhere in North America a water game is being examined.....





more information might be found here: a lot more photos

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

I think that we will have to cut down a tree with a herring...

you get terrain in a forest, and there are trees in forests. trees are generally cylindrical shaped.

there are streams and creeks that run through forests, streams and creeks have fish in them...and water, trees need water

so that means that we could have like 55gallon drums full of water stacked on top of each other in some sort of random order and the two alliances will have to separate them and stack them in the correct order, all while trying to keep from knocking them over on other robots and trying not to bust them as to spill water. then have to move the stacked barrels to certain locations on the playing field as marked by blue circles in the playing field carpet.
bonus points could then be awarded during the autonomous period for correctly moving to a stack of barrels with a certain shape on the bottom barrel such as a square, circle, or triangle...or a picture of a shrubbery

then again this could idea could be formulated from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and be completely wrong...but it's worth a shot

[hipsterjr]

Whatever the game is, I think it will be a big change from past games. It will be like "Triple Play" when alliences grew from 2 to 3 teams. I expect that kinda of change to acompany the new controllers this year.

[jax1488]

i just hope it has to do with climbing something, im tired of all this ground floor games lol

we need something like 04 or 03 again.

bring back the struggle on king of the hill, nothing made the crowd and game harder than yelling at your robot to push harder to get all four wheels on top in time.

also climbing on top of things is hard, brings a new level of thinking out a drive train and design.

i wouldnt mind a game where we have to climb over rubble, or something that moves, it would really put drivers to the test

[Dr Theta]

I think that they are really going to try and test the new system by increasing the number of robots on an alliance to 4, aiding this by decreasing the robot size limit. They will also probably try to put a premium on mobility by using multiple stationary field elements. I also think that they will continue with alliance game-pieces, band I think that they will use a similar scoring system to 2007 where multiple scores in a specific area had an exponential increase in score. It brought out an interesting strategic wrinkle when it came to offense as far as using your own pieces to maximize offensive output or use them to defensively limit your opponent. I am also personally leaning toward cubic game pieces. As far as the end game, who knows?

[dodar]

OMG! i just saw the video of th IRI people unveiling the control system and i just got a AMAZING IDEA!

since they really want to bring the camera back and their robot had LED's on all sides tha they might want us to drive in the dark using jut the camera and th crowd would use the robot LED lights to see the robots

[Sam2197]

Originally Posted by ebarker

Somewhere in North America a water game is being examined.....





more information might be found here: a lot more photos

would that be considered rack and row...