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Re: Why the low Gear love
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Originally Posted by Fields
I'm seeing a lot of discussions on fuel delivery and scoring.
Some discussion on climbing
Very little on delivering gears quickly.
More worryingly, I keep seeing a misconception on the VALUE of gears.
Given that one gear is given to you, in teleop only, the wrong values are:
1st rotor = 40pts/gear
2nd rotor = 20pts/gear
3rd rotor = 10pts/gear
4th rotor = 6.7pts/gear
Many people are forgetting that the 4th rotor is actually:
6.7pts + 1/6 RP in qualifying, also remember that in the high goal 6.7pts take 20fuel
In playoffs these gears are 23.3pts each. 40+100pt bonus. That's 70 fuel in the high goal for each gear or 420 fuel just for the 4th rotor.
Time in two minutes:
worst case (one robot) = 10s/gear
best case (three robots) = 40s/gear
For all the emphasis everyone puts on fuel as the tiebreaker, not many alliances will get 4 rotors going, even in playoffs.
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These are also not correct point values for gears. You are stating the average value of gears for each rotor assuming the gear set is completed. The following are the exact values for each gear: - First gear: 40 points
- Second gear: 0 points
- Third gear: 40 points
- Fourth, fifth, and sixth gears: 0 points
- Seventh gear: 40 points
- Eighth through twelfth gears: 0 points
- Thirteenth gear: (40 points + 1 RP) or 140 points
I think fuel will become a particularly attractive scoring option if an alliance can score more than seven gears but fewer than thirteen gears (or who can accomplish the feat of scoring all 13 of their gears). It doesn't make sense to sink time into a scoring objective that won't yield any points*.
*edit: assuming that the primary objective is to win the match
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Last edited by Brian Maher : 17-01-2017 at 15:40.
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