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Originally Posted by Andy Grady
Actually Ken, I am agreeing with you on this one. I think that having a stop button multiplier would add tremendous depth to the strategy of the game. Even if it wasn't a multiplier, but instead you get like X points for stopping 15 seconds early. Or here is a kicker...how about an autonomous button. Say for instance, in addition to the 15 second Auto period at the beginning of a round, you hit a button and you close out the final 15 seconds of the round in autonomous mode for X extra points.
Whew...on second thought, I think it would give me more of a headache during the build period....too much work. Dave Lavery, please ignore this post if you have just read it. 
Good Luck All,
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To be honest, I know I was talking with George Wallace about something I think would be awesome... if you choose when autonomous runs. Like, you wouldn't have to have an autonomous if you really didn't want to, but if you ran it the last 30 seconds of your match (for example) it would be a certain multiplier. But... once you start it, you can stop it, but only the time it's in autonomous from start of autonomous till the end will count as a multiplier. It would make it so that multipliers wouldn't be every match, because if it's a close match your obviously not going to go into autonomous... yet it'll also make teams want to really work on making the robot self-sufficient and capable in autonomous against a robot controlled by a human, which would mean we'd see a really interesting use of sensors on robots. I personally think you would find some VERY creative designs using sensors to make them work if they had to work against a human controlled bot.