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Re: Crab drive question

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Originally Posted by RaMoore View Post
It's really nice to be able to have different drives depending on the game, but newer teams or ones with limited resources should consider picking a drive and building it preseason as practice and staying with that frame and drive for a few years until they are more established. Switching drives to match the game can be very resource intensive, and it also seems that for most any game any drive system will allow teams to still score and not having the reinvent the drive means they can spend more time on other aspects like manipulator. (I wish someone had told me this when starting out...)
For that exact reason is why it is a bad idea to lock into a very resource intensive drivetrain preseason. They'd be better suited developing a 6 wheel or other simpler drive if that was their goal.

I agree with your overall sentiment, just not in the case of a crab drive.