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  Re: rtlToronto, the Road Ahead/VM Questions
 
At a model engineer show in the US called "NAMES" they give out tokens, I think 5, to everyone that enters. The tokens are used by people to vote on the best models. Does this idea help in any way? DOC (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: rtlToronto, the Road Ahead/VM Questions
 
You know, this is getting to be a bad habit, BUT, I agree with Chris. Overly complex rules and limits tend to stifle creativity and if there was one contest that calls for creativity, it's this one. We don't need to create rules to curb cheating, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: rtlToronto, the Road Ahead/VM Questions
 
----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Magno <cmagno@rogers.com> (...) So, it's best capitalist AND robot designer? It seems like using money as the ONLY criteria to decide the winner will really only determine the best capitalist, not the best (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: rtlToronto, the Road Ahead/VM Questions
 
(...) <snip> (...) All good ideas. But if we want to make $$ a scoring condition, we could eliminate a lot of cheesy approaches by scoring on *profit*. After all, you don't get anywhere in real life by vending product that costs more than you (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: rtlToronto, the Road Ahead/VM Questions
 
(...) BOTH!! every game we do is more than just building a robot. there is some strategy involved. With project X I made the choice to scan the board first then solve. others had to solve on the fly. This game should offer those same challenges. as (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)


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