What will be more important?

[Nuttyman54]

Depends a lot on your strategy, but if you gear for a high top speed, you may never reach it in the limited space. This is one of the advantages of a multi-speed transmission

[Waynep]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Depends a lot on your strategy, but if you gear for a high top speed, you may never reach it in the limited space. This is one of the advantages of a multi-speed transmission

While this is true, if you have enough torque, by addition of motors, you can have all the advantages of a multi-speed transmission in a single speed transmission geared for speed higher speed. There are several big name teams who run single speed transmissions and do well with it year after year.

[Zoheb N]

i think both have there their advantages.

speed will help you get from tube to rack while torque will give you the power you need to stand your ground while scoring a tube

[Stuart]

you know we asked our selfs this question at the end of last year and we came up with a good answer . . both.

this was also the answer we came up with when asked whats better maneuverability or traction.

but if you only can pic one I would say maneuverability and speed they cant block you if they cant touch you.

[Goldeye]

Many teams do not realize this until it's too late: if you do not gear low enough, you might have the finest top speed in the world but your robot will work terribly. A four wheel drive geared too high will never turn (save usage of ominwheels). But even still, some robots, particularly in games with frequent changes in acceleration (as this game will probably have) manage to keep the fuses warm just by driving them and they quickly break as soon as they stall.

I speak from experience with a drivetrain last year, that following the breakdown of it's planned 6 wheel/tread drive and conversion to 4 wheel drive, suffered these very problems. Omniwheels let it finally turn, but nothing could stop it from popping breakers frequently. And this was only at a 1:2 gear up from the kit transmission. To be fair there probably were other things wrong besides the gearing.