2011 Game Hint #1

[FlyingD662]

Off-topic: THIS IS THE REASON WHY I LOVE FIRST!

Anyway, either way you spin it, it's looking like an interesting season for the drive train teams! Looks like team 662 will finally get rid of the tank drive this year!

What if the alliances had to retrieve small carts or train pieces from various levels of the field and put a train together? Certain colors were certain points? Just fueling the fire here people... Although it's quite the bonfire now

[r2davis2]

What if the game is like snake, where the point is to attach all the game pieces in a large train and trail them behind you. Though that ignores many other clues.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by dodar

Now this is gonna be my 5th year in FIRST but 1st as a mentor, but I dont really remember many game hints but whats the average time period between game hints being released?

Prior to 2003: zero hints.
2003-2007: 1 hint per season.
2008: 3 hints, 1st mailed to teams, 2nd a couple weeks later, 3rd a couple weeks after that.
2009: 2 hints, probably about 1-2 weeks apart.
2010: 2 hints, same timespan.

[alicen]

We also have to keep in mind that the GDC has to create a game that everyone can play. That means rookies can play too, which probably means that "no wheels" is not an option (I saw that mentioned earlier in the thread).

[Team#2057-Vegas]

I think I may have to block chief delphi on my computer for the day.. so many thoughts are going to drive me bonkers .. nvm. I give up.. I'll keep thinking!

18 days til kickoff guys!

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by FlyingD662

Anyway, either way you spin it, it's looking like an interesting season for the drive train teams! Looks like team 662 will finally get rid of the tank drive this year!

I wouldn't rule out tank drive yet - we still don't know what the terrain is or how the robots have to interact for each other. Save that speculation for after kickoff!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by alicen

We also have to keep in mind that the GDC has to create a game that everyone can play. That means rookies can play too, which probably means that "no wheels" is not an option (I saw that mentioned earlier in the thread).

We've played without wheels in BEST before. It was a stationary robot. I liked some of the elements of the game but we were all happy to see wheels again.

And - I would never ever underestimate a rookie. Ever.

Jane

[dodar]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

We've played without wheels in BEST before. It was a stationary robot. I liked some of the elements of the game but we were all happy to see wheels again.

And - I would never ever underestimate a rookie. Ever.

Jane

I'll give you 2 perfect examples: 2056 and 3357

[pandamonium]

so if you do not use wheels you start with an additional 5 points

or every game piece you score counts for 2 points instead of 1

or an endgame bonus: Robots not supported by wheels, other robots or field elements get an additional 20 points.

The kit could be a simple walking design kind of like a hex bug

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Team#2057-Vegas

Now all we need is for Dave to come in and change our thoughts

Who? Me?





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[EricH]

Dave, don't you have an animation to be working on?

pandamonium, I don't think there was ever a bonus for using the RCX over the NXT.

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Who? Me?


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Of course, you! Who else is so fiendishly evil to twist our poor little minds like you so love to do?

[FlyingD662]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Who? Me?





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Ohhh boy here we go... Take it away Dave!

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Who? Me?





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Yes, you! Dave stole the cookies from the cookie jar...or, rather, the KKs from the box sitting on the table.

[pandamonium]

maybe we shouldn't blame Dave anymore. It seems to me that Bill has taken over as the new mastermind, dropping hints about stairs and the view at 3000ft. Other than a tennis ball Dave hasn't been too diabolical recently.

-I may regret saying this though-