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Originally Posted by Nemo

This is perhaps partly true, but I think the overall effect is to give teams a new choice. If you want to wait until you know more to be sure you can use the stuff you choose, you can wait until the game is released. If you want to stock up to save a bit of time during the season, you can select generally useful stuff before the season.

For our part, I think we'll take advantage of the early $450 AndyMark voucher to buy some drive parts to have ready on day 1. Then if the game dictates a completely different drive than the one we gambled on, we'll either a) make it work anyway or b) eat the extra cost to build a different drive.

Overall I like the ability to pre-buy to reduce our exposure to a potential early supply crunch / backorder delay at AndyMark on certain parts.

We have the same sentiment. 167 has really liked using mecanum drivetrains the past few seasons and there's a high probability we will use one again this year. We might as well order the parts for it ahead of time so we aren't waiting until week 3 to have parts for a drive base. Is there a chance it will be a suboptimal choice for the game? Yes, in which case we'll make due. But the advantage of being able to build and iterate quicker if we do use the system seems worth it to me.