2010 Game Hint #2

[ChuckDickerson]

It doesn't matter if it is carpet or not. Last year there was still carpet under the Regolith. Just because it isn't in the picture doesn't mean it isn't there. They can always put Regolith or something else on top of the carpet. For all that picture shows it could just be concrete with the carpet or whatever playing surface left out.

[FRC1612]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

It doesn't matter if it is carpet or not. Last year there was still carpet under the Regolith. Just because it isn't in the picture doesn't mean it isn't there. They can always put Regolith or something else on top of the carpet. For all that picture shows it could just be concrete with the carpet or whatever playing surface left out.

Looking at the game hint ... they probably rotated the image at an angle to show as much carpet(flooring) as possible without showing the game elements or anything else on the field.

Really measuring to the amount of carpet left outside the field im gonna have to say this is at least half the field in the clue... So unless the corners of the field are a different material. Im gonna have to say the whole field is carpet(or whatever flooring is in the picture).

Something new i noticed is that the ramp unlike past years extends into the field when up... Not sure if this was just a mistake on the computer or not? it should be back a little so the bend is outside the field.

[Kimmeh]

We agreed that this year there won't be any robots this year. It will be all on the human player! We'll spend the next six weeks learning how to do the Robot dance.

[EricH]

I'm with Art on the side paneling. I distinctly remember a robot in AZ 2003 running on practice day, and something went haywire in automode. The robot went up the ramp, over the top, took a left on the other side, and right between the top and bottom rails of the field. It ended up under the bleachers before someone got to the E-Stop. Fortunately, nobody was hit.

Every year since then, there has been a shield of some form (wire or plastic) to prevent that. It isn't always shown on the drawings, though.

The amount of carpet outside the field is irrelevant, and even so, there isn't half the field shown. Usually there's no more than about a yard outside on either side, left from putting two rolls side-by-side and centering the field on them. That's no more than about a 3-4-yard section there total, at an unknown area of the field. It may in fact be the corners, or it may be the middle. Just as a note, those support pillars can (technically) go into just about any joint on the field border that isn't on the ends. And I think your angle is skewed; the ramp doesn't go into the field. Rather, there is a cutout in the lower part of the field border which can give that perception.

The key element is this: there is a gate in the side of the field. Next to that gate is clear of obstructions at the time shown in this CAD. Somewhere else on the field is the item in Hint #1. That is all we know at this time;usually, the rest of the hints come out on Saturday during Kickoff right before the curtain comes down.

[jerry w]

OK. Lets look at what is not there!
The track from hint #1 is not in hint #2.
so where is it? Well if the field is symmetrical then we can multiply the hint#2 view by 4. we are now seeing almost 1/3 of the total field surface. The area we cannot see is the middle and the two ends.
The track from hint #1 seemed to want to be attached to other pipe. Thus the long pair of pipe must be somewhere we cannot see. I suggest it be against the ends of the field. Because the lexan frame that holds the pipe would need to be mounted to some support.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by jerry w

OK. Lets look at what is not there!
The track from hint #1 is not in hint #2.
so where is it? Well if the field is symmetrical then we can multiply the hint#2 view by 4. we are now seeing almost 1/3 of the total field surface. The area we cannot see is the middle and the two ends.
The track from hint #1 seemed to want to be attached to other pipe. Thus the long pair of pipe must be somewhere we cannot see. I suggest it be against the ends of the field. Because the lexan frame that holds the pipe would need to be mounted to some support.

Your forgetting a third dimension.

[Rion Atkinson]

Originally Posted by jerry w

OK. Lets look at what is not there!
The track from hint #1 is not in hint #2.
so where is it? Well if the field is symmetrical then we can multiply the hint#2 view by 4. we are now seeing almost 1/3 of the total field surface. The area we cannot see is the middle and the two ends.
The track from hint #1 seemed to want to be attached to other pipe. Thus the long pair of pipe must be somewhere we cannot see. I suggest it be against the ends of the field. Because the lexan frame that holds the pipe would need to be mounted to some support.

What if we are thinking of the Clue #1 as small... What if is was huge, and spanned the field. And the robots have to hand game pieces in the holes, while being able to drive under it! Pure evil! Small holes, low clearance.

[Ripper]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

What if we are thinking of the Clue #1 as small... What if is was huge, and spanned the field.

I think personally that clue #1 was a piece that is inserted inside the two guard rail and has a goal or something attached to it. I don't know if this was said before but yeah that is my idea on the relationship between these two clues.

[Thuvishan.R]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

What if we are thinking of the Clue #1 as small... What if is was huge, and spanned the field. And the robots have to hand game pieces in the holes, while being able to drive under it! Pure evil! Small holes, low clearance.

hmm * thinks of overdrive year *

[JKWarrior]

Originally Posted by Thuvishan.R

hmm * thinks of overdrive year *

Overdrive was dumb, and it lacked creativity. I mean come on NASCAR? I understand that the silly sport is really helpful in the design and technology of new cars, including efficiency and aerodynamics, but i almost died of shame that First couldn't come up with a more creative game.

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by JKWarrior

Overdrive was dumb, and it lacked creativity. I mean come on NASCAR? I understand that the silly sport is really helpful in the design and technology of new cars, including efficiency and aerodynamics, but i almost died of shame that First couldn't come up with a more creative game.

What if they weren't thinking "NASCAR" and were thinking "Toad's Turnpike"?

I think its kinda lame that you're bashing them like that. I've been on a GDC for a mentor challenge. Every once in a while you get an outstanding game idea and refine it till it's fantastic. But if that doesn't happen, its INCREDIBLY HARD to make up a new game to play.

+$.02

[JKWarrior]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

What if they weren't thinking "NASCAR" and were thinking "Toad's Turnpike"?

I think its kinda lame that you're bashing them like that. I've been on a GDC for a mentor challenge. Every once in a while you get an outstanding game idea and refine it till it's fantastic. But if that doesn't happen, its INCREDIBLY HARD to make up a new game to play.

+$.02

im sure you are right and im sorry that im a liitle un familiar with Toads Turnpike, unless you are sayimg mario cart 64, in which i give you mad props. i guess im just a NASCAR hater

[infinitydex]

-finnaly school is over wat up people

-any ideas on the field floor
-and the first hint was as some of my team members said was a object holder

-any ideas on the objecs that will be used
-on another skript page i herd something about shooting objects threw holes in a wall that separates the field.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by infinitydex

-finnaly school is over wat up people

-any ideas on the field floor
-and the first hint was as some of my team members said was a object holder

-any ideas on the objecs that will be used
-on another skript page i herd something about shooting objects threw holes in a wall that separates the field.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=78869

[jamie_1930]

Originally Posted by JKWarrior

Overdrive was dumb, and it lacked creativity. I mean come on NASCAR? I understand that the silly sport is really helpful in the design and technology of new cars, including efficiency and aerodynamics, but i almost died of shame that First couldn't come up with a more creative game.

In my opinion overdrive was fine, it had a lot more to do with coming up with ways to capture, move, and hurdle the tracks balls, then it had to do with NASCAR. It seems to have lacked creativity when you think of it at first, but it made for an interesting game, have you ever seen so many robots tip over before?