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Re: new game/rule help
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:17:44 GMT
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Exactly what I was proposing, and would accept. Connect em with a
space hose to start with. I will even galdly stipulate the space
hose if you forgot to bring it. Basically, I want all your bots
to start within a 2 foot square. Heck, I mean, lots of robots I've
seen would break into 4 pieces if you picked them up wrong; why
should we hold the swarms to a higher standard? :D
Jeff
Calum Tsang wrote:
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> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno writes:
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> > to me this means you can build a "robot" that is really 2 or more bots
> > that each go about their thing.
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> Yes.
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> > If someone is entering 4 robots as ONE player, should the robot have to
> > be one robot to start and break into 4 robots, OR should all the entered
> > robots just have to fit in the square??
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> > I'd like it to be the break a part bot, but Calum says it makes it too
> > complex.
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> One thing I notice is a perverse requirement to make things mechanically
> complex, when there are other strategic, programming or organizational
> solutions which can solve problems in other ways. It's sort of like the
> difference between Cray supercomputers (complex, expensive and elegant) vs
> MPP clusters (simple, cheap but ugly).
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> If you want to impose a requirement to make them all one unit, someone who
> enters four bots will simply join them with a little Space hose.
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> Calum
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| FINE, with much discussion off list I can begrudgingly accept non attached multiple robots. (...) Because the risk of a break-a-way bot NOT working levels the play field for the new comer who only has a single bot/ My consolation prize then would be (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Yes. (...) One thing I notice is a perverse requirement to make things mechanically complex, when there are other strategic, programming or organizational solutions which can solve problems in other ways. It's sort of like the difference (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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