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Originally Posted by sanddrag
The difficulty in design for this is a big step up for us. I like it, but it's scary.
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Couldn't agree more. Goes back to one of FIRST's mottos: "Its the hardest fun you'll ever have"
This season is different from last year. Maybe its because its my 2nd year now and I know how things go, but I definitely have a lot more stress than I did last year. I feel like this game is a lot less definite. The season more unknown. Last year, you could pretty well predict how well you were going to do. We could tip the bridge very well and shoot ok, so I figured we'd have an ok year, and we did. This year, Im seeing a lot less teams that build these all-in-one bots that are very successful at every area of the game. Sure, they'll be there, but not like in previous years. And because the aim of the season is no longer to do everything well, how do I exactly qualify at what point of functionality our robot will be successful?
If we go for the 30 points, I could see that making us a pretty good team, giving a guaranteed 30 points + some more every time. Or we could show up and everyone can get to the third level, and all of a sudden we're just a average bot that gets 30 points in a gave where 60+ points is the norm.
Its just a different gameplay, and I cant decide if is more or less fun than before
