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| | | (...) OK, but what if I have a bot that gets to the top in the first 10 seconds, and just drives around looking.. then 2 min 30 sec later your robot decides to makes its great move... thats a GREAT strategy, but boring to watch. this scenario nulls (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | (...) I have no idea what you mean by the latter sentence. BOTH robot owners have to agree to give up together. If you have the robot with something at 2:30, obviously you don't agree to draw. Boring? I suppose so. (...) Not at four days away from (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Chris Magno
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| | | | | | NEVER mind... Calum and i just had a heated discussion and he talked me down from the edge. he suggested that 4 days before an event is too late to make ANY changes. he agrees that we could have a boredom problem if 2 robots use the same time delay (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | (...) Well, part of the game is dealing with a 3 minute game time. Your suggestion is to be able to "fast forward" this game time if no one uses it as as strategy option is commendable, but confusing for a change this late in the game. Calum (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | (...) Maybe a better way to put it is, I don't want this thing to become like Calvin-Ball: (URL) three minutes only if you need them all. But you'll have to declare it at the start of the day by standing on a chair and singing "Copacabana" by Barry (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Iain Hendry
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| | | | | | "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:HBJy4E.1JC@lugnet.com... (...) Iain (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Richard Noeckel
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| | | | | | (...) That’s o.k. Ian, nuttin’ wrong with that... It’s no worse that still having imaginary-friends at 22 yrs old! An’ I'm proud to have a giant invisible *Koala named ‘Friz-bee’ --==Richard==-- *Well, if you had a woolly arboreal marsupial you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Bruce Sheridan
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| | | | | | I'm pleased to say that my robot is complete from a building point of view. All that's left is programming and a wee bit of testing. Then I'll have to spend another few days adjusting the program to account for 2 or 3 minute contests. Dave, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Chris Magno
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| | | | | | (...) Bruce I've seen your code.... I understand why you need to take a few days to program in these changes... if you need help e-mail off list I'll do my best to show you what variable needs to be changed. t = 180 t = 120 t = 60 Chris (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Bruce Sheridan
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| | | | | | (...) Gee, thanks for the offer. BTW, I haven't been watching CNN lately...Did HELL FREEZE OVER? Bruce (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Chris Magno
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| | | | | | (...) funny you should mention this... the day i posted that i did a search on google news and found this link: (URL) can call me after 6 pm to help you with your unruly code. Chris Why do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: king-o-da-hill —Derek Raycraft
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| | | | 1. Don't we run these contest for ourselves not the audience? 2. Just because TV has given kids an attention span of less then 3ns doesn't mean we should cater to it. 3. There is no point 3! 4. If people can watch Formula One for 2 hours and nothing (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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