[EricH]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

It's all about safety and fairness. FRC requires everyone to use the same base software so that the field can control your robot. This way everyone starts autonomous at the same time and such. Also, it gives the field the ability to e-stop the robot that jumps over the guardrail.

And there's another factor. It's a lot easier to troubleshoot 40+ "identical" systems (same basic layout, etc) than it is to troubleshoot 40+ non-identical systems. Even 1 and 39+ isn't as easy as 40+, because that one could cause all sorts of problems (potentially).


The last thing you want is for your robot to be having comm issues, everybody else not having them, and the CSA going "Why did you change X item? It wasn't supposed to be changed."