Should we have Arena Items |
No, I want an empty box with just the two Robots in it |
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8% |
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I like having a couple of small movable items around |
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39% |
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I would prefer some fixed obstacles to drive around but cant be moved |
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13% |
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Yes, Barrels, Pallets, and terrain are great. Lots of fun |
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39% |
[ 9 ] |
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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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While I like the arena-obstacles idea, I think Kill-Saws, Pulverisers etc are a bad-idea..
As Gary put it, the bots are there to fight each other, not the Arena.
a 20 litre drum sitting there cant do much damage, a starter-motor powered wrecking saw definitely would.
It would put things *too* much on the advantage of the pushy-bots side.
Why bother to put a weapon on your bot, when there's a much bigger, more powerful one than you have the weight to do sitting just over in the corner for you to use ?
That encourages people to build bots like New-Cruelty, which while having 1 or 2 of them in a comp is good for variety, having powerful arena-hazards would encourage them too much I think.
My feeling is that for optimum 'bot evolution, the environment (arena) should be
interesting
(variable terrain, obstacles etc), but
passive
(no weapons).
Perhaps a pit
that only opens during the last minute of the match *IF* activated by a bot-pressed trigger
, but thats about as far as I'd go in making the environment hostile.
Arena hazards are good for spectacular shows, but bad for fair competition. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:37 pm |
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