Thread: Ball Capacity? How Much is Too Much? And Can You Use It For A Strategical Advantage?
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Unread 30-01-2009, 21:33
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Re: Ball Capacity? How Much is Too Much? And Can You Use It For A Strategical Advanta
In our team's design review, we felt that the robot should at least be able to handle every moon rock given to the team at once. (7 starting plus 13 in the player station)
If your robot could only store 7 balls, say, then if a scoring opportunity doesn't arise, the robot can't do much. It has to try to reach an opponent or else it can't do anything. If a robot has larger capacity, it can spend time during a match collecting more balls to prepare for scoring opportunities. And there's also the point of needing to reload more with less capacity.
Our robot should be able to hold around 24 balls.
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