Limiting Drivetrain Motors

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Originally Posted by Orion.DeYoe

If 6-CIMs are "breaking the game" then it's because too many teams are holding to the old 4-CIM way. Stronger drivetrains encourage more robust designs which teaches better engineering practices.

Other possibility: The game becomes about who has the strongest drivetrain to the exclusion of all else.

To use the 2011-2012 FTC game Bowled Over for similarity, the game became all about one aspect: Putting one ball in a crate and lifting it as high as possible. This was not the intent of the game. The GDC did not realize FTC robots would be able to go over seven feet high, much less seventeen feet.

It is possible for changes in the rules to "break the game" by making it all about one aspect. You can't teach better engineering practices by removing the tradeoffs that come with balance. And "robust designs" is a different issue entirely. Robots getting damaged/destroyed is not the intent. FIRST is not supposed to be Battle Bots.