End Game Bonus/Autonomous Discussion

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Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

The whole idea of a bonus, is a bonus. Something extra to help the game, not to make the game. And thinking along these lines you can see why the autonomous modes have no extra advantages. I do think that in autonomous the goals should count as 2 points but that is my opinion and I can clearly understand the purpose of the pieces being work only a single point.

hmmmm interesting.

Am I the only one who thinks autonomous is going to be both really easy and important?

Think about it.

You can place your balls basically wherever you want.

You can place your robot almost wherever you want.

The goal doesn't move.

= You can line up your robot and balls and knock them into the goal one at a time. No worries about robots getting in your way. Heck, you don't even need sensors. I'm sure a dead-reckoning robot could easily be programmed to drive a short distance and fire a kicker.

When you consider how chaotic the rest of the game will be (It will be really hard to control the balls with robots knocking into each other), the autonomous becomes a bonus itself.