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| (...) OK, coming in late on this (and, I should add, being unable to currently stack up any blocks even *by hand* in my house due to a 9-month-old), you want to... ...encourage stacking but discourage piling... ...encourage some sorting... (...) How (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Wow that is a rare peice/colour.... (URL) may have a couple, I'll have to check... Jeff VW (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I agree. thats how we would have scored that scenario. (...) in theory YES. but what we found is that most people program the robots to "hoard" blocks for 2 min 30 seconds, then deploy the stack at the last min. thus protecting the stack from (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| And if anyone in this group has 'em, I would be willing to trade or pay. At least 6 1x3 yellow arches for a MOC for the train layout. Anyway, if anyone in rtl has 'em and is willing to part with 'em... I may not be at dinner tomorrow--sister's in (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Little incentive? That's still overstating the importance of sorting. But, I hate to repeat myself... (URL) So a valid strategy would be to pile up a heap of blocks and let the humans (...) That sounds like a Chris plan. It's not hard to count (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) So a valid strategy would be to pile up a heap of blocks and let the humans figure out what the stacks are? Add in some random driving around to knock down opponent stacks, and you know what, that could be entertaining! BTW, I agree there is (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Two block tower and a four block tower. At least, that's the way I see it... More importantly, the current scoring really doesn't give me a reason to sort--the +1 for each right block doesn't come close to justifying the effort to sort when (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| I know I'm getting incredibly picky now, but if my bot had a stack hopper that was 1x2 blocks, the following two scenarios could result (URL) So by the current scoring rules, (1) would count as two 4 block towers even though they touch, but what (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I forgot to put it in before, but in previous events, if two towers touched each other, that was acceptable. They still counted as two separate towers. Scoring applies as per normal, the rules page has been updated. Thanks Wayne and RobA for (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) My 2 cents: A tower is a tower is a tower. What should score is the hight, not the number of blocks that make up that hight. SO I'd score any three layer tower as a 3 blocks in the fabulous scoring sequence for hight points, even if each layer (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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