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Originally Posted by wilderbuchanan
Do you guys really think that that many Totes will be stacked. I mean the 30 at the feeder station plus 28 in the landfill. Thats 60 totes by itself. The time spent stacking all of those could be spent on stacking up to 7 recycling bins resulting in many more point. Also throw in the coopertition and i think that stacking 60 totes, unless a team develops some huge machine that can stack a tote a second etc, will be unlikely at most of the regional events. I do think that going in getting the recycling bins in autonomous could be very beneficial.
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There is a maximum possibillity of up to 40 Totes for each (one side steals or captures the whole shelf, though rarely will that occur I would think), side in the landfill and 30 outside of the field (=70 possible total Grey Totes for 1 side, which would leave the other only 58 Tote Max., or some combination thereof) + a maximum of 7 RC's at the beginning of the game.
(Stealing or Capturing from the shelf all of both RC's and all the Grey Totes), is the smartest thing to attempt to do. 3 Robots building 6 high capped stacks will be fairly fast as many can stack locally in different areas, and deliver far more than 1 tote per trip. (One consistant tightly packed scoring platform wall 6 High w/ every other 6 High stack capped w/ an RC =at least 60 Totes+5 RC's+5 Litter for just 1 wall. There is another scoring platform to fill yet.
You just did not account for the other 12 Grey contested Totes also on the shelf, in your formula above. As more and more practice progresses, stacking will become second nature. And working together will become first nature. Stack, deliver stacks, someone backs into and packs the wall towards the backstop, cap the stack. Off to stack more. Tight locked in walls will be the big very stable winners!
There will be plenty of bots that can stack 3~5 high w/ an RC cap and deliver them to cap the shorter built tight packed stacks. A 1~2 high Tote Stack w/ an RC+Litter cap is very stable. Easy to cap an existing 4~5 high tight packed Tote stack on the platform without having to grapple that last
3" of the bottom of the RC and lift into place last. Lifting a short stack without driving anywhere will allow others from the other side to bottom feed in easily. There are many ways to work together to build those walls. Those that do work together well, will be rewarded highly.
Building a tight wall will require you to cap every other stack maximum though, not every stack, as the RC's are much wider at the tops than the bottoms.