Answered: Possession of buckyballs in skills

[roboraven91]

Hello,
I have read through the manual and did not find the answer,
when you are in skills, all balls are considered the same colour and for that reason, if you were to touch one of the 8 balls against the back wall and it were to move the ball on the other end of the line, you will have possessed 8 balls. How would this be ruled? how would this be avoided? it would be VERY difficult not to move other buckey balls while trying to only grab 3.
Thanks

[roboraven91]

oops, i said there are 8 buckey balls, meant 6. thanks in advance karthik!

[Karthik]

Hello,
I have read through the manual and did not find the answer,
when you are in skills, all balls are considered the same colour and for that reason, if you were to touch one of the 8 balls against the back wall and it were to move the ball on the other end of the line, you will have possessed 8 balls. How would this be ruled? how would this be avoided? it would be VERY difficult not to move other buckey balls while trying to only grab 3.
Thanks

Please carefully review the definition of Possession, which is quoted below for your convenience.

Possessing – A Robot is considered to be Possessing a BuckyBall if it actively controlling the BuckyBall. Examples of Possessing include:
• Carrying or holding BuckyBall(s) in the Robot
• Herding BuckyBalls, i.e. intentionally pushing or impelling BuckyBall(s) to a desired location or path
o Accidentally Herding BuckyBall(s) (i.e. driving through BuckyBall(s) in the path of the Robot) is not considered herding, and thus not considered Possessing
• Trapping BuckyBall(s), i.e. intentionally pressing BuckyBall(s) up against a field object

What you have described would not be considered Possession. It would be an example of accidental herding.