New Game Progress

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Manoel

Wafer-thin game objects?

That would be The Logical Conclusion to a Night of Bingeing (thank you Mr. Creosote!)

-dave


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[JohnBoucher]

"Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho, heh?" FZ

[MiniNerd24]

I kinda hope me have a little more room to move in this year's game. last year was fine and dandy, but (as experience from last year's game) when we fell over we blocked the whole path. If they have it more like 06 with most of the field free and have the target in the center I think that'd be helpful. And my guess is that they're going to raise the weight limits to 125 or something because of that new control system. Maybe the game itself should be capture the flag or for those here who love the concept of a water game. Water Polo.

[johnr]

Foosball. Playing field runs across the short distance of field. auto would be to lock onto handles or to push other handles out to mess with other teams auto. Endgame--I have no idea.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Red Herrings

Originally Posted by dlavery

And so it begins....



-dave



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Oh Noes!~!!!

What have I done

[Rich Kressly]

It has been reported that there were several late summer sightings of Mr. Lavery working on two rather large shark fin replicas in his garage late into the Virginia evening. Coincidence? I think not.

Hey Cory, ever see that episode of Bugs Bunny?
"How you makeum snowball in summer?"

[Taylor]

You do understand that members of the GDC do patrol the CD fora, check out game design ideas, and are rather careful not to use an exact idea already posted here.
That being said....
FLL and FTC have done a science/technology theme for a while now. I haven't seen this from FRC yet - at least not the whole game (I know the hybrid mode was supposed to allude to the Mars expedition). I think FRC will be thematic and topical. Perhaps highlighting environmental concerns (game pieces could be aluminum cans, plastic bottles, magazines, etc), perhaps incorporating more obstacles a la the FTC game.
Personally, I'd like to see a politically themed game - we'd call our robot Hanging Chad.

[AndyB]

This'll be what, the 18th year of FIRST? I could see a second coming of FIRST Frenzy coming in a few years. (Combining the ideas of previous games). But probably not this year. They'd do it for the 20th.

Personally, I had a blast with Triple Play and Rack n' Roll. Overdrive really didn't hold as strategy as high as games like these. (Especially triple play). I love games that force alliance cooperation. Overdrive didn't have much of that after the first 20 seconds of the game. I loved in 2007 when teams had to coordinate the usage of ring robots and ramp robots.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by AndyB

Personally, I had a blast with Triple Play and Rack n' Roll. Overdrive really didn't hold as strategy as high as games like these. (Especially triple play). I love games that force alliance cooperation. Overdrive didn't have much of that after the first 20 seconds of the game. I loved in 2007 when teams had to coordinate the usage of ring robots and ramp robots.

Here Here. Those two were definitely my favorites. I would especially like Triple play now that the camera stuff has been figured out better. If the Vision Tetras had green lights on them, that could be truly spectacular.

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by Damien1247

Ok now for some randomness:
at every regional we will have a webserver our robots will have to open a tcp/ip connection to. Will have to traverse the file structure and find a file. Open the file and it will contain the location to drive to (randomly generated on a per robot basis) at that location we have to place an object and repeat the process. And thats just auton.

Ok that was a fun joke.

Now if you gave the same location to opposing robots (3 total locations unless you are thinking 4v4), and they had to autonomously play king of the hill in that spot then we might have something exciting.

Originally Posted by boiler

Personally, I'd like to see a politically themed game - we'd call our robot Hanging Chad.

The name has been done before. In 2004, Team 1218, The CHAbots, named their robot the Hanging CHA. All it did was hang, but with big tri-wheels for climbing it was hard to stop (they literally rolled over bots). They were Einstein Finalist that year with Las Guerillas.

[jgannon]

I'm predicting that, for the first time since 2005, there won't be any penalties based solely on where your robot is or where it's going. The GDC finally realized that these rules have had a disproportionately negative impact on teams with less skilled drivers and malfunction-prone robots... no one benefits when a team feels like they'd have been a better help to their alliance by not showing up at all.

(I can dream, right?)

[yodameister]

I took this picture, zoomed in on various parts and discovered some very interesting things. If you carefully look at the white patch behind the eye, you will see what looks like a torch. Now I have no idea what that means, maybe an Olympics style pentathalon or something like that. Then, If you look at the dorsal fin, about 1/3 the way back, there is a faint image of a meatball in a bowl of spaghetti. I'm guessing that FIRST will be providing lunch to all teams during the Thursday lunch time since the image is located on the first third of the fin, and since competitions are over 3 days, it makes sense that the meal will be provided on Thursday. The last thing I noticed is that I have far too much time on my hands typing this fantasy up, and I will just have to wait for kickoff to see what this year's game actually is.

Cheers

Originally Posted by dlavery

And so it begins....



-dave



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[Libby K]

Originally Posted by yodameister

I took this picture, zoomed in on various parts and discovered some very interesting things. If you carefully look at the white patch behind the eye, you will see what looks like a torch. Now I have no idea what that means, maybe an Olympics style pentathalon or something like that. Then, If you look at the dorsal fin, about 1/3 the way back, there is a faint image of a meatball in a bowl of spaghetti. I'm guessing that FIRST will be providing lunch to all teams during the Thursday lunch time since the image is located on the first third of the fin, and since competitions are over 3 days, it makes sense that the meal will be provided on Thursday. The last thing I noticed is that I have far too much time on my hands typing this fantasy up, and I will just have to wait for kickoff to see what this year's game actually is.

Cheers

WAIT WAIT, I GOT IT!!!!

What if....

it's just a picture of a fish.

[team1203 4life]

Originally Posted by Libby K

WAIT WAIT, I GOT IT!!!!

What if....

it's just a picture of a fish.

Agreed u guys read way to much into this i mean i can hardly wait the 1 month 21 days 15 hours 19 min 37 sec until the game is announced but honestly we are never going to guess what first is going to give us thats the point

[Enigma's puzzle]

3 robots per alliance, two on your own side of a 2 foot wall and one on your opponents side, the other alliance has the the opposite, two on thier side and one on yours. There is a bucket of some sort on each end.
There are 10 to 20 nerf balls around the arena. you have to put the balls in the bucket on your opponets side and or just on there side. you score 3 for each ball in the bucket, and 1 for each one just on the opponents side.