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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Do keep in mind that for the other robots' climbs to count, those robots have to contact the pyramid at each level in sequential order.
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So basically this design would have to be engineered to an extremely precise degree with a ton of power and a ton of foresight. I also don't see the team that accomplishes this putting a shooter on the robot- but if they did, I don't see them making any cycles, just three shots in auto.
It would still be an amazing bot to have on an alliance even without that, it would just have to rely on it's partners for it's disc score. And it's climb would have to be quite fast, otherwise you'd be losing out on a lot of disc points (i.e. if the climb takes 40 seconds, then all three bots are out of commission for 40 seconds- if you were against HOT, they could score all the discs in the feeder station during that time).
What if instead of carrying all three other bots up, it lowered down a bar to the 10 pt level from the 20 or 30 point level that it could retract to carry bots up the tower? That could work. It still faces the power issues, but it allows for more time to be spent on disc scoring.
In reality I think any of these designs are implausible, and we should just settle for a combo of 469 and 67 being the best robot this year is capable of.