2004 Game

[DanL]

Originally posted by EvanG
Next year, something interesting i'd like to perhaps see, is instead only starting in auton mode, why not end in it? You can have your robot navigate to a position and or put itself in a position. The flaw to this is for rookies and for us programmers who had a hard enough time as it was. Plus, teams that used the sensors this year would likely have an advantage.

meh... I'm not sure there would be a point to this... I mean, if you had to accomplish a certain task in the game, then why not just do it before the game ends? Like if the point was to end in a certain spot, I'd just navigate there before the game was over and sit there. Sure, if it was something like king of the hill, you COULD have an autonamous battle for the hill, but I think more often than not, the strategy would be to get there before the auto mode begins and activate the sit-and-brake auto program.

Not to mention that with the amount of inaccuracy (and failures) invovled with auto programs, ending the match in auto would often be anticlimatic.

The fun of auto mode this year is that rather than it being the deciding factor of the match, it was what gave people a little extra umph - even if you had a crummy auto program, you could still win.

My two cents.