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I just had a thought on scoring. You mentioned that you wanted to make the
course tough enough so a perfect score (no penalties) would be nearly
impossible. How about giving a penalty every time someone backed up? I can't
remember a single run where we didn't have to back up at least once.
John
| | | | | | | | | | | | | At 09:09 AM 1/2/07, John Brost wrote:
> I just had a thought on scoring. You mentioned that you wanted to make the
> course tough enough so a perfect score (no penalties) would be nearly
> impossible. How about giving a penalty every time someone backed up? I can't
> remember a single run where we didn't have to back up at least once.
That's how they do it in "real" rock crawling. It will be a little
different for us, because you don't actually have to "put it into
reverse". I think having a penalty for backing up may be good.
In the "real" event, there is also a penalty for using rear-steer,
but I think we should encourage "complexity in the robot/truck".
Maybe we could also offer some points for the actual design of the
robot. Like you get ?? points (to improve your score) if the truck
has rear-steer, 4 wheel drive, a working suspension...
Steve
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