Next Year's Game?

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

Cool Idea - Maybe just a hoop supported by a single rope. It starts stationary, but once it gets hit...

Like the spider rack in 2007. It was completely motionless until the robots started bumping it. That adds a nice random factor to the game. You know the rack is there, and isn't moving positions, but the actual pieces still wobbled.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by youngWilliam14

does anyone else cringe at this? it's a good idea, but i'd hate to find my robots frame seriously damaged

Back in 2004, 330 fell off a 10' high bar with no damage. The damage happened the next match, when someone ran the lift while it was locked...

Build the robots strong enough, you don't have to worry too much about damage from things like defense and falling and getting hit by game objects.

[buildmaster5000]

what if there was a ramp for each robot, different slopes worth different points and changing slopes scoring bonus points, and with 30 secs or so remaining, the field was floded with 4-6 inches of water. the winner being the bot highest on its ramp. adding a challenge, make a way for the robot to attach itself to a cable and winch itself up the ramp...but we would need to have power to undo the cables...

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

It'd be a seriously cool challenge. Robust robots at their best.

I'd be so down for this. But only if there is a traffic cone

-RC

[kamocat]

Whatever the game is, I'd like the autonomous at the end of the match.

[XXShadowXX]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Whatever the game is, I'd like the autonomous at the end of the match.

amen to that brother

[demosthenes2k8]

That'd be quite fun

[youngWilliam14]

double the field size, add a green alliance

[ttldomination]

I quite like the idea of the Purple alliance...

[delsaner]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

I quite like the idea of the Purple alliance...

Hmmm... A game with more than 2 alliances does sound interesting...

[youngWilliam14]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

I quite like the idea of the Purple alliance...

but then the chant doesn't work

"RED AL-LIANCE!"
"BLUE AL-LIANCE!"

[EricH]

Originally Posted by delsaner

Hmmm... A game with more than 2 alliances does sound interesting...

I think that you need to read up on the games in the late 1990's... Especially before 1999. Then extrapolate...

[delsaner]

Originally Posted by EricH

I think that you need to read up on the games in the late 1990's... Especially before 1999. Then extrapolate...

I'll check them out. Now that I think about it, it could see some problems with a 3+ alliance system. Sorry for bringing back the idea...

[Stephen of REX]

You know what would be frustrating? If there was a bar or overpass object on the field lower than the maximum robot height. Teams would have to innovate to make their robots able to scrunch down.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Stephen of REX

You know what would be frustrating? If there was a bar or overpass object on the field lower than the maximum robot height. Teams would have to innovate to make their robots able to scrunch down.

Or expand... See 2000, 2001, 2003. Frustrating? Only if you planned to use the ramp in a traffic jam.