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Re: Team Update 6

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Originally Posted by s-neff View Post
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?
Pretty sure there's no such thing as an out of order rotor penalty.

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Originally Posted by rich2202 View Post
If Rotors only start if Gears are installed in Rotor Order (section 3.4.2), do "turns" out of sequence count? Does turning gears for Rotor 3 do any good if Rotor 2 has not yet been started?
I think this is covered by the new text in the update. "If a GEAR set corresponding to the next sequential unengaged ROTOR..." implies that any rotor past the next sequential unengaged rotor isn't going to accumulate any rotations at all. Which only makes sense. Which further shoots down plans to prerotate a gear set, because only the next gear set will accumulate rotations. So there's no point to spinning up rotor 4 unless 3 is already going. And if 3 is going, you're not spinning 4 without a full gear set, at which point you spin it up completely.

The only reasonable case for placing gears out of order is a highly choreographed autonomous, as suggested by Siri, and by me in other threads. Possibly also disinformation relating to your total gear count as well.
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