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Originally Posted by JohnM
What if FIRST was to extend this, but also changed the rules where human players were part of the autonomous also?
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They already compensate autonomous with teleop by giving bonuses to tasks completed in the autonomous period. This year, the period is short because there isn't much to do other than shoot a ball and drive forward. Human players can technically interact through the use of the Microsoft Kinect...however anything more than this, in my opinion, would take away from the meaning of "autonomous."
I do however think they should increase the hot goal bonus, there's a lot that goes into being able to detect that, and 5 points doesn't seem like much to me. Some of the points have been a bit out of whack in my opinion (why is the truss worth the same as a score in the high goal if scoring high is much harder to do?) but that's probably best saved for another thread.
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