Thread: Fuel Vs. Gears
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Re: Fuel Vs. Gears

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
I wonder if we'll see a Gear ferrying strategy develop. I think it's obvious that receiving a Gear and carrying it to your alliance's Airship is an easier task than actually placing a Gear on the peg. So it might beneficial for alliances to have two robots ferrying Gears to a robot picking up those Gears and placing them on the Lifts. I know this introduces quite a few points of possible error, most notably the passing of the Gear from ferry bot to placing bot, but it might be a useful strategy for Quals when you have a bit of an underdog alliance.
I feel that most teams would be designing their gear manipulator to work with the feeder station. But, if a team did design a robot where they pick gears up from the floor, it would create an interesting dynamic. One team to get the gears, another to place them, and a third team to shoot or play defense.
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