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Originally Posted by Chris is me
If NI was okay with it, they'd just offer x discounted cRIOs to all FIRST teams and not have a cap in the first place.
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No, they mean completely different things.
Giving one to every FRC team that wants one caps the max number of controllers at the discounted price at the number of teams in a given year (T). Out of T only a percentage of them will buy a new controller in a given year (N). In the absolute worst case N = 1 and NI has to sell T controllers at the discounted rate.
In your world the max number would be XNT where X >= 1.* This is significantly larger number than NT.
Realize that normally N will be significantly less than one. I don't know what it would exactly but I would put a guess at close to .5 if not lower.
This is not a problem for Red and Blue though because Red and Blue both intended on purchasing a controller both years. Look at it as merely a loan, Red has the funds to purchase Blue's CRIO this year and in exchange Blue will purchase Red a new CRIO next year. I see nothing wrong with that aside from my distaste of purchasing things you can't afford. **
Where is the poll option, "Legal, financially irresponsible, but legal"
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This is an abuse, really the amount would be the sum of all XiNiT where i is the number of CRIOs purchased in a year because less teams will buy multiple new controllers in a year.
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Aside from things that only make logical sense to finance, a new house for example.
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