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Originally Posted by s-neff
But as soon as the PILOT starts another rotor with that gear, it's locked down... so why bother spending time turning the rotor and risking an out-of-order-rotors penalty if you go too far, if you'll still need to pull a gear off the lift to complete it later?
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I figure most of these questions relate primarily to top-tier autonomous routines. For instance, if you're expecting a 3-gear autonomous from your alliance, and two gears arrive first roughly at once, you'd probably prefer to put them in Rotor 2 and start rotating that set while gear 3 shows up. (This assumes Rotor 1's automatic start is relatively quick in comparison to Rotor 2.) The timespan you wait will almost certainly be less than 10 seconds in a 15 second total autonomous. However, if gear 3 subsequently fails (robot missing peg, etc), you'd still want to stop turning Rotor 2, remove a gear, and put it in Rotor 1 for the single autonomous bonus. This approach rests on the legality of rotating (not engaging) rotor cranks out of order and removing a gear after having rotated it (but not engaged it).
These are edge cases of course, but they could make a very big difference in a few teams' seasons. More teams will be working toward being those few, and the work to reach that point a huge upfront investment that benefits from understanding all these little details.