Re: Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?
 

Ken,


This is the first, and so far only, substantive argument I've heard in favor of two-stick tank drive. Congratulations!

For that maneuver, the one-side pivot, I would suggest setting the right and left bumper buttons on a controller to disable all output to one drive-train side, or prevent any reverse movement on one drive-train side (obviously correlated to the button's side). This should be trivially easy to implement in code and result in the control scheme that you desire.

In 2012 we used a similar type of control to align to the bridge, except instead of controller buttons we used two limit switches on our bridge-lowering mechanism to turn off one, or the other, drives.

Re: Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?
 

330 used single stick arcade from 1998-2004 and tank from 2005-2014. Regional winning percentage with arcade was 27%, and with tank it is 42%.

Re: Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?
 

I come from the old-school School of Tank Drive: Left Joystick is left, Right Joystick is right, but I just recently switched teams, and my new team is trying out the FPS style controls for the first time.

We are going with H-Drive this year, so our controls are as follows:
Left Thumbstick = forward, back, strafe L/R
Right Thumbstick: Left = turn left, Right = turn right
Directional buttons = precise directional movements (50% speed of Left Thumbstick)

This is an entirely different world than what I'm accustomed to (back when I drove a long time ago, using joysticks instead of videogame controllers), but the kids seem to work well with it, so that's all that matters to me.

Re: Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?
 

Why was this switch made?

Why do you (apparently) think that the change in control scheme resulted in more wins?