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Re: Abandon Ship

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Originally Posted by Boltman View Post
Excellent point:

1 is a given in airship
2 is fairly achievable crossing , acquiring placing crossing, acquiring placing in first :30
4 is grand achievement in next :90...woo hoo so much effort
6 more??? is sort of crazy....... for one bot and let alone even two not certain and not likely .

If you start on the the 6 and do not finish, you just wasted a tone of time you miss the climb climbing time you just shot 50 pts

Conversely FUEL is abundant and recycled on your own end... every 3 or 9 fuels is a point everthing counts no threshold and fuel everywhere.

I think teams will figure it out after first two weeks , what seems easy is pretty hard. Not to mention terrible vision.
Missing the climb in favor of a failed attempt at rotor 4 is a major mistake that does not make sense to attribute sweepingly at all much less to teams that would potentially end up in 4-rotor territory. It'll happen (stuff happens), but very few teams who've just scored 4+ gears in a match (depending on the allies' preloads) would fail to bail out of gears 7-11 in order to climb, if they're capable. I'm all for fuel strategies, but marking 'missing the climb in favor of a gear' as a point in favor of fuel is unreasonable. Similarly with saying fuel recycles to your side without mentioning that it recycles to your opponent on your side first. Both of these ostensible advantages rely on the other guy making a mistake; the real advantages of fuel are the ceilingless and linear scoring and the bulk availability. The most appealing aspect is likely the feasibility of guaranteeing yourself an extra RP (in auton!), though with the caveat that this relative advantage crashes in elims.
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