Secret Sauce: Shot to Human Player

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by marshall

How long does a 3 assist cycle take vs a 2 assist? And don't forget about a third robot dedicated to defense. It's a fun thought exercise to armchair on CD...

We ran the math on all of this right after kickoff and came up with a strategy that has paid off for us. I'm not going to claim it is 100% effective in all cases and I know it can be disrupted.

Fact is, it won us a regional and an engineering award and we have had a blast doing it. I'll take that any day.

Its hard to disagree with someone who won a regional with it but I still am going to (congrats to that by the way!) Winning is proof in itself that a strategy worked but the keyword here is worked. The thing that is blowing my mind is that in this game a quick 2 assist cycle strat could outweigh a quick 3 assist. I feel it would be poor game design to end up with a game that rewarded less work with more points. No offense to the GDC at all they are great guys and very innovative. This work:reward pay off could only be tested through live play and obviously the GDC doesn't have too much to work with when it comes to simulating a regional.