New Game Criticism

[LavastormSW]

Originally Posted by StephLee

I miss autonomous period scoring bonuses. They made autonomous period actions so exciting for the team whose robot successfully does what it's intended to do after so many hours spent making it listen...

I agree. I think a lot of the rookie teams won't try to make an autonomous program, seeing as there's no bonus. Hopefully they do anyways, though.

[Dad1279]

There is a bonus, ......

Overall, I like it.

[SteveGPage]

The autonomous period bonus is definitely there! I would expect this to be a relatively low scoring game (as compared to other years). During the autonomous period, you are given the opportunity to score without any defense by the opposing alliance. Also, the fact that the balls should be returned to the playing field before the autonomous period ends, means that when Tele Op begins, you still have the same number of balls available to be used in game play.

Likes: Easy to understand game for spectators, simple scoring methodology, wide variety of types of bots that can play this game, the yellow/red card (during qualification rounds) only effects the offending team - not the whole alliance.

Unsure: Match seeding points ... still need to think that one over (But easy enought to track from a scouting perspective.

Dislikes: Not a big fan of the towers - it will probably block some shots, as they bounce off them (and wonder how many will build a 7 foot tall bot for that), number of penalties.

Best regards,

Steve

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by LavastormSW

I agree. I think a lot of the rookie teams won't try to make an autonomous program, seeing as there's no bonus. Hopefully they do anyways, though.

Failure to move the 3 balls out of the far zone in autonomous leaves those 3 balls right next to the opponent's scoring goals. Seems like incentive enough to me.

[ICntIHaveRbtics]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Failure to move the 3 balls out of the far zone in autonomous leaves those 3 balls right next to the opponent's scoring goals. Seems like incentive enough to me.

Agreed. People are going to definitely want to get the balls back into their own turf as quickly as possible. I feel like though once they score and start rolling back into the middle of the field though, there's going to be some duking it out between robots going on in the center, thus making this game exciting!