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Unread 13-01-2009, 13:34
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Re: Autonomous Strategies

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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard View Post
In the past when your team alliance partner didn’t have an auto mode it don't hurt you, at least not much.

My fear this year is a teammate that does not have an auto mode will hurt you because for 15 seconds they just sit there and collect balls, maybe all 20.

So you could have a great auto mode but your other teammates don't move and you start the player driven time with up to 40 points scored against you.
On the flip side:
These resemble conditions where you may not preload your own robot:
1. scouting shows opponents have not even a "run away" automode.
2. your team has good throwers, can throw 20 balls in 15 seconds.
3. your robot does not have autonomous scoring capability
Therefore, no preload; let your human players throw all 20 balls in the first 15 seconds.
Followup driver strategy is to recover loose balls, move the empty cells