I have came to the realization that that year there are going to be many wall bots (a bot that acts like a wall to defend you or your teammates from scoring.) I don’t know if there is way around them but if so please give examples!

Wow, I hadn’t seen that video before - looks like a 5" climbing bogie drive is very feasible from the drive perspective. My concern is about the stack of cubes such a robot would need to carry. How much clamping force would you need to exert on the cubes to keep them together with that big of a jolt…

Related: Woohoo, wallbots remain legal and un-nerfed in the new manual update! Looks like there won’t be any help stopping wallbots from the GDC :stuck_out_tongue:

if you’re going to the length of building a bogie drive just to try to get over a wallbot’s wall, then who’s really won, the wallbot or you…? I genuinely find it unlikely that wallbots will be common enough to force teams to take measures against them. Now, I can really see offensive robots with p…

If you build a bogie drive you’ve already beat the wallbot, even if you don’t play against it.

how so? If a design is such a threat to you that you go to such lengths to try to overcome it, that design has done exactly what it was supposed to do.

But once you overcome it, it’s no longer a threat to you.

let me elaborate: I meant the wallbot has still won because you’re attempting to overcome it with some advanced drive system, which honestly I see as a win for the wallbot, even if they lose the match. idk, I just think the point of a wallbot is less to win the match, as it is to strike fear into th…

But once you have gone the lengths to defeat it, the fear disappears, thus meaning they lose both ways.

I could continue this, but I feel it would go nowhere. I just tend to agree with the mentality that [image] 2019 NorCal RI3D Reveal if the fear of losing to a wallbot is so high that teams design custom mechanical solutions into their robots, then I think that’s actually a point for Team WALL-E…

True, you’ll be using time to develop that bogie drive, but I don’t see how a bogie drive is so disadvantageous if you have the time

How to stop wall bots?

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Xenon27 August 17, 2019, 1:11am 123

I could continue this, but I feel it would go nowhere.
I just tend to agree with the mentality that