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Re: Are active intakes necessary to be competitive in Recycle Rush?

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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli View Post
If an active intake allows you to be quicker and more efficient than your passive intake, then it will make you more competitive.
I'm not trying to disagree with you specifically, this is just something I have seen on Chiefdelphi several times and I wanted to comment on it.
You can't simply say, "if an active intake makes you quicker it makes you more competitive". Because for any improvement to a robot you have an "opportunity cost" (or, what you gave up to get it). If making your intake active takes 3 more days then a passive intake, then your opportunity cost is whatever you could have done in those three days. (3 more days of driver practice?) The real question is, "Will making an active intake make me more competitive than anything else I could have spent my time doing?"
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