Value of a Turret in STEAMWORKS

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Originally Posted by Jarren Harkema

Arguably an omindirectional drivetrain provides many disadvantages without addressing the advantage of a turret. Good luck trying to align your omni or mechanum drive while being shoved sideways.

Evaluate all of your needs to play the game, and then find the best way to address those needs by weighing the pros and cons of a design.

While i agree that an Omni drive train allows better lateral movement, you should think about defendability of a robot on all omni's. That's gonna take a lot to stay put, eventually your battery will dip due to continual load, and when it dips, your shooter could stall as our shooter did in Stronghold!!!

How you package the turret depends on your design and intake, but they can be quite small. As for aiming, our team student captains thought about keeping turret aimed at boiler the duration of match, and using vision only when line of sight and when readying shooter. wouldn't take much. Just a thought though, haven't investigated too much.