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Re: Starve Them!

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Originally Posted by meaubry
Side note-Which a flaw in the game design as the team that won autonomous is already rewarded with bonus points, and the team that lost is immediately required to reload taking time away from their offensive time length, all while the team winning autonomous is able to have their robots go and reload while playing defense. It would have been more interesting to see the team winning the auton period immediately go on offense, someone has to deal with the fact that you shot the balls and must collect more - why place that added burden on the team that is already 10+ points behind?
That is not a "flaw" in the game design. It is exactly what was intended. Play out the inverse in your head - really think it through. You will see that having the team that wins autonomous immediately go on offense would be the wrong thing to do.

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