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Re: Passive vs Active Gearing

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Originally Posted by T8PineappleSam View Post

The main issue with a passive mechanism that seems to be mentioned is time for the pilot to notice and pull the gear. While this may add an additional half to full second in the time the pilot takes to physically pull up the lift, I think that the expectation that the pilots will be too busy to see or be able to respond to the passive gearing robot is overstated. Pilots will be focused on the match. Pilots will pull up the gears from incoming robots before placing and turning the ones on the ship. And of course pilots can tend to the passive gear bots before pulling up the gears from the active robots. The only situation I can see where a reasonable pilot would not be at the lift the moment the passive gear bot gets there is if three passive gearing robots all get to the airship at the same time.
Actually I believe that the main issue with passive systems is that there are only 2 pilots, which means that 1/3 of the time your pilot will not be in the airship, meaning that a pilot whom is NOT experienced with your robot will be lifting the gear out of your passive system and will not be aware of the nuances of your system
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