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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Obviously, every game is different, but I would put a lot of caution into intentionally designing as a "niche" or "support" robot in a district structure. Generally speaking, you're taking away your ability to "control your own destiny" when it comes to district ranking and reach the district CMP and subsequently the CMP. In some areas, a large enough portion of the population will reach DCMP that you may be willing take that risk and hope you end up on a successful DCMP alliance. In others, you may end up watching from home.
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This is definitely one of our biggest design requirements - we want to be able to control our own destiny by aiming for the number one seed. This drives the design of our robot.
We knew we wanted to get that autonomous tote stack ourselves, because the likeliness of three individual robots getting that stack together was approximately 0%.
There's a bit of gut feeling involved as well; we figured a robot that could build an entire stack within itself and then score it (the bottom-up stacking style) would be more efficient than one that made stacks on the platform one at a time.
I'll probably edit in more things later.