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Originally Posted by Pavan
Would you support a five to ten second longer autonomous period if FIRST decided to implement it. I feel that many programmers do not feel it is worth it to spend their time for fifteen seconds and that if there was a little more time than more people would find it more important and thus making more people work on autonomous.
Please give your input on whether you think it should be made longer or not.
Pavan.
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From our perspect this year.... Auto mode was not worth 6 weeks of work for 2 points and a keeper...and we gave up the arm idea anyway early in the season.
Auto mode last year was worth 30 points plus a 10 point bonus. SWEET.
The amount of time for auto mode to us doesn't really matter, but what it means to the match play does. It's gotta be worth it or gain an advantage.
Both last year and this year seem good for timing. Last year we had an auto mode with camera, and it worked pretty good. This year, we don't have one. So now we just sit still. We might come up with something later, but for now we sit for the whole time frame. If we had 15 seconds last year, I think we could have done more auto correcting to get the aim better, but we did it in the time required. I like it the way it is.