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Originally Posted by Ginger Power
TL;DR: Designing your robot to handle solely Gears is risky because you're dependent upon alliance partners to achieve a Rotor advantage vs. the opposing alliance.
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The tricky thing with comparison, and you mentioned it, is autonomous. Gear specialists can (probably)
count on 3 easy gears (plus the spare). Non-specialists can't, unless they find SWAP for a gear ground intake.
You make a good point though. It seems like the MCC for a gear specialist is a reliable auton and then at least 3 full-field gear cycles under even the heaviest of defense (2v1). Other than that, I'm not sold that it's riskier than over-extending a team's capabilities by doing more mechanisms and dividing attention during an event. This bias is based upon my team's history of over-extending.
With an all-gear Quals alliance as you described, I'd probably start the match with an understanding that we would attempt 4 rotors and adapt from there with preset milestones and knowing who would play what defense if a call was made to abort. The gameplay strategies (and a little luck in execution) are the secret sauce for making 4 rotors work in that situation, so I won't reveal too much

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