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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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yes, the problem with making rules for such an inventive bunch of people though is thats its hard to predict just how far they will go with it.
Simple rules saying explosives are banned is easy to interpret. but if you then allow "internal combustion engines", someone will no doubt argue that a bullet is a form of internal combustions since the explosion is contained in the shell.. just like the cylinder of an engine.
create a weight bonus for whatever reason and while the original proponent of the bonus might be fair and use it for the mechanism they had in mind, but someone else more competitive will immediately start figuring out how to turn it to their advantage by improving their defense or offence with the additional weight.
I think the innovation levels have slowed a little bit presently, with people efforts mainly going into making "A better rammer" or "a more powerful spinner" or whatever, and while thats not a bad thing to refine the existing engineering for a while, I love to see new and unusual designs as well which only pop up occasionally.. mainly because they are hard to make work as well as the proven designs. and as I have said before, I'm planning on introducing a little bit of terrain variability over time to encourage another burst of innovation from people hopefully..
If anyone can think of any rules that could be relaxed without compromising safety significantly, I'd like to hear from you. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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