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Re: Fuel Seems Undercosted
As my team discussed this topic, it was brought up that if scoring gears has the most point potential, why wouldn't everyone do it? The answer seems to be that gearing is an intimidating task that may prove to be much more difficult than previously thought.
On the other hand, dumping fuel to achieve the boiler ranking point is comparatively less difficult. However, the big thing we seemed to realize was that while scoring ranking points via fuel may get you to playoffs, it just isn't enough to win playoffs against teams scoring ranking points via gears. A gearing ranking point is worth 100 pts, while the fuel point translates to 20 points; leaving a gap of 80 points at the very least, which would be extremely difficult to overcome by only scoring fuel. While it may seem undercosted point wise, strategy will be crucial as fuel provides a comparatively easier way to rack up ranking points, which is what really matters in terms of your shot at playoffs if you may not be able to always win matches point wise (similar to breaching the defenses last year) |
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The Cylinder itself appears to be ~ 1.78 cubic feet, and the funnel is ~ 1.63. Assuming that the trapezoid below the cylinder is used for processing fuel, thats ~ 3.41 cubic feet total. The large clear bins used in the videos look like they hold approximately 50 balls, and are 4.24 cubic feet. Using this, the number of balls that could be held in the boiler stack is approximately 40. If you were shooting at a rate of 6 balls per second non-stop, the boiler stack would fill up in 40 seconds. So you need 240 balls going in non-stop. Obviously the voids in a rectangular container will be different than the voids in a cylindrical container, but it's close enough for me tonight. There are bigger fish to fry, like figuring out how to flood the boiler in the first place. |
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I was wondering, can someone point to me the rule that states only one gear at a time in teleop? Also anyone up for discussing strategy? I'm stuck in a longggg car ride and wanna bounce some ideas.
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G27. One-GEAR limit. ROBOTS may not control more than one GEAR at a time. Violation: FOUL. If strategic, TECH FOUL and YELLOW CARD. |
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Re: Fuel Seems Undercosted
Where are you pulling this from? The boiler goals process 4-5 Fuel per second as stated during the webcast.
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There are separate counters for the high and low efficiency goals. Each capable of an average of 5 fuel/second.
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Re: Fuel Seems Undercosted
How it is now can change, they could lower the required fuel for the 1 Q pt. But for now, a strategi=y is coming to light that my team, team 2544, is seeing. Hording fuel. Crazy at first, but can work. If you have an all gear team, the 12 required is possible, and if 3 can be put on in auto, that is 120 pts right there. I digress. If you shove much fuel into your launchpad, and you do not release your fuel you have got from the boiler, you can starve the other team. If you could make a pile of fuel near the boiler, you could in fact make a pile they can not touch and possible start falling into the boiler. Fuel is lomited, so if you starve the opposite alliance, and have a spot-on gear alliance, you will win.
Also, the fuel will unintenally block the opponents from getting gears from their shoots on your side. :} |
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See 3.1 and the Loading Lane and 3.11.5 for the Return Bins. The red alliance human player is in charge of the return totes collecting balls scored in the blue alliance's boiler. The blue alliance can only access the overflow totes. You cannot prevent the other alliance from using fuel recycled from your boiler.
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If they are not scored, but simplky kept in the boiler area, the other team can't access it.
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