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Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:25:02 GMT
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Calum Tsang wrote:
> 1. Tower Height: Points are awarded by height of tower.
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> Number of blocks tall 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> Points 0 2 3 5 8 13 21 34
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> -Towers can touch each other, but the robot cannot touch the tower
Can towers touch the sides of the arena?
> 2. Tower Colour: You build the tower out of your start square colour. If a
> tower has a block of the opponent's colour, the tower is limited to the height
> of the home colour underneath.
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> Example: You have build an 8 tall tower of mostly black, your home colour The
> sixth block is white though. You are awarded 8 points for a five tall tower.
Although I proposed this rule, the problem with it is it forces anyone
who builds towers to also sort. Since we were discussing allowing
different levels of participation to complete, this seems a little
restrictive.
I would like to suggest we reward the construction of a tower in your
home colour, rather then penalize one that's not. That way a pure tower
builder can compete and not have to worry about sorting.
> 3. Home Towers: Towers are rewarded a 50 percent increase* in points when built
> in the home square.
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> * This is the one I need help setting.
I think we should play a few scenarios based on past performances and
try and work a balance. While keeping it simple too.
That activities I see are:
-Sorting - return blocks of your colour to your home.
-Tower Building - build a tower of blocks
-Home Colour Tower Building - build a tower out of blocks of your home
colour.
-Home Colour Tower Building at Home - build a tower out of blocks of
your home colour on your home square.
The great thing is if you can pull off the last one you get points from
each of the catagories. Each block in the tower counts for sorting, you
built a tower, the tower is in your home colour and of course you build
a tower in your home colour at home.
However the complexity of achieving that last one could lead to a lot of
failures. A simple sort the blocks or build a tower robot could do
quite well.
Derek
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 | | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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| (...) I can't see why not...I don't think this ever came up. (...) Isn't that just six or half of one dozen? (...) Can you though? The only person to have really found home consistently was JeffE back in rtl3/4. (...) So, you want to give people (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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| (...) You mean by counting ALL the blocks of your home colo[u]r? It seems like only counting up to the wrong color would offer a big penalty for non-sorting robots. If two non-sorting robots compete, the winner will be the lucky one, who is last to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Onwards to rtlToronto18...
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| (...) Well, how's this for a set of rules: 1. Tower Height: Points are awarded by height of tower. Number of blocks tall 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points 0 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 -Towers can touch each other, but the robot cannot touch the tower 2. Tower Colour: (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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