[Ginger Power]

4607 is currently at 24 in our "quick load" hopper, and another 60 or so in our primary hopper*. We might eat into our primary hopper a little bit more as we continue mounting things but we've optimized for hopper volume from the beginning.

Is there even a benefit to having an extremely large hopper? How long can you reasonably expect to sit in the key shooting before somebody on the opposing alliance decides their time is more valuable playing defense on you? 5 seconds? 10 seconds? 20 seconds? If you have an extremely large hopper it'll take you a longer amount of time to empty it.

Now obviously you could just stop emptying your hopper and continue cycling gears when defense takes notice, but then why design your robot with such a big hopper? Presumably that volume could be used to improve the functionality of other mechanisms.

Another question is how much Fuel can you reasonably expect to acquire before it makes sense to start emptying your hopper? Catching 50 from a field hopper is a good start, but then how much Fuel will you intake while running Gear cycles?


*Calculations done assuming a random packing factor for spheres of 64%