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Re: Value of a Gear Ground Pickup

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
...if you want to maximize any process, you overlap the steps that can be overlapped to shave time. For gears this means the HP gets the gear as far out the slot as possible (frisbee gears will happen). Your robot does not slow down and start herding the gear. in the distance between where you get it and the lift, you have time to get it up off the floor and into position. While driving back to get the next gear you start moving that device back down into place...
ditto...and if you are designing to be both a gear and fuel handler, you can apply this method and make a ground only gear handler that can place on peg and run and leave the overhead real estate for a high capacity fuel tank and/or climber. It also sets you up to be a great street sweeper in the (hopefully unlikely) event that an opposing alliance triggers a chaos defense and litters the field with fuel and gears, or a clutch player when your alliance is falling behind in either kPA or Rotor potential.
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