2011 FRC Game Hint #2

[TheoBlacksmith]

Originally Posted by iblis432

say... back to the idea of taking things away, couldn't it be that the thing taken away is individuality? Before, it was suggested that you work with your alliance partner, but not really required, it was possible to win when your partner did not show up. But what if that was taken away? What if it was a train, on a track, the leader would be chosen at random, and the others have mechanisms that do the rest of the game. Such as activate turntables and such, or maybe have like ball cannons to fire into a center goal. The idea is, all three teams (or two) on an alliance have to work in perfect unison, or else it's all lost. In the case a robot does not come to the field, a blank board with the specificed track wheels is put in its place, and a different leader is chosen.

Don't imagine what I'm saying to be exact, I'm saying something similar could happen

something to ponder apon

[TheoBlacksmith]

is it just me or is this starting to get REAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL confusing

Originally Posted by ThirteenOfTwo

Some friends and I were talking over the game hints and we came up with the following idea: we think that hint one has been over-interpreted. The only commonality between the pictures is a link to a white, round object (the triangles to the circle in the FRC Logo/Little Eva to the pillar).

Our hypothesis is that each team will be linked to one immovable, white, round object in a zone of the field, one red robot and one blue robot per object.

Remember that in the past FRC has been trying to make it a good idea to have robots that don't try to do everything at once. By placing a physical limitation on where a robot can go, they would be strongly encouraging teams to specialize in one particular area on the field.

Yes, but then you'd be stuck if you were in an alliance where you all specialized in the same thing. I don't think FIRST would want that.

[iblis432]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

That would be interesting, but extremely hard, and there would be no way to go against another team, because you'd have to be on separate tracks, othwise you'd collide.

That's why you gotta build a cow catcher, although it'd be more like a robot catcher. 25 points if you derail your opponent.

Idk, you could still challenge the other alliance. Maybe the tracks are side by side, you could block for defense. Compete to grab the same items. Idk

Originally Posted by TheoBlacksmith

is it just me or is this starting to get REAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL confusing

Well it depends on what you are doing in this conversation. If you are making ideas, then you're almost out of luck, because we already have a pretty good idea of what's going on. I'm just looking at the ideas of game aspects that people post and look at the logistics of them. If it is unlikely to occur, then I say so, eliminating anything that could throw us offtrack!

[TheoBlacksmith]

ha! u used a pun " of track" anyway i think we defenitly agree that this will have something to do with trains. the details are just all up for grabs. theres no way to verify them till saturday

[EricH]

It is unlikely that any team will successfully guess the hint. (It's happened, on occasion, but nothing useful came out of it at the time.)

It is unlikely that any team will redirect balls from the ball return into their own goals. This is partially due to that being last year's game, but even then people said it was unlikely.

Originally Posted by TheoBlacksmith

ha! u used a pun " of track" anyway i think we defenitly agree that this will have something to do with trains. the details are just all up for grabs. theres no way to verify them till saturday

Now that we are 99% sue that it involves trains, we need to either find out what the trains can/will do, and if there are actual trains, or what the second hint means!

[TheoBlacksmith]

i guess the only good that can come from bickering is that someperson here will have bragging rights when the game is realeased. and be able to say I TOLD YOU SO lol

Originally Posted by TheoBlacksmith

i guess the only good that can come from bickering is that someperson here will have bragging rights when the game is realeased. and be able to say I TOLD YOU SO lol

But we can also get a good idea of the game and tell our team about it!

[iblis432]

Trains, steam engine. I got it...

It's a water game. The person who converts the most water into steam wins. I is smart.

[dag0620]

Alright well I feel we hit that the thread hit redunacy (a little bit ago actually but I was waiting for something to happen).

See you all on the big hint in 3 days!

Originally Posted by dag0620

Alright well I feel we hit that the thread hit redunacy (a little bit ago actually but I was waiting for something to happen).

See you all on the big hint in 3 days!

what do you mean? This is the best part yet!

[TheoBlacksmith]

Originally Posted by iblis432

Trains, steam engine. I got it...

It's a water game. The person who converts the most water into steam wins. I is smart.

you is smart!

Originally Posted by dag0620

Alright well I feel we hit that the thread hit redunacy (a little bit ago actually but I was waiting for something to happen).
See you all on the big hint in 3 days!

i agree but i have nothing better to do at this time

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

what do you mean? This is the best part yet!

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[iblis432]

same here, got nothing to do for the night, although I think its safe to say that the next hint will be "All your FIRST game are belong to us." We're going back to the old poetic quotes. XD

Do you think the low color index has anything to do with this second hint? There are only 4 color values in the whole picture. No slightly different colors to make shadow tints or anything.