Hello, In the recent 2.0 game manual update, the GDC changed the autonomous bonus from 20 to 6 points. In a game where score can reach into the 100s easily, an extra 6 points seems trivial. If anything, I thought they would raise the point value. I am wondering what prompted the GDC to make this ch…

[image] Xenon27: I think the reason they reduced the bonus was so that teams that successfully rush neutral goals have less of an overwhelming advantage. This. We were primarily concerned about double or triple rewarding teams that won the goal race. The decision was a side effect of the clar…

It did seem a bit odd to make such a drastic reduction when point spreads can be so high. Intended or not, it seems such a change will likely shift the focus even more strongly to the AWP and then neutral goal snagging. For 6 points… meh.

[image] Dankest Vex Memes? Honestly baffled by this. In a high scoring match, the autonomous will account for at most a whopping 1.5% of the entire score. I suppose half of the thinking might be the race to the middle is a challenge all in it’s own that greatly changes the outcome of the match, a…

[image] TeamTX: will likely shift the focus even more strongly to the AWP I disagree. With the autonomous bonus being absolutely worthless (2 rings, cmon), I think it’s going to become even more critical to gain a majority of goals, leading to maybe more rushing of the middle than before. Re…

I generally disagree with both shifts in focus. With a 20 point bonus, it was critical to grab neutral goals to get the extra points, and gain an advantage in the match. With a 6 point bonus, it’s critical to grab neutral goals but only to gain an advantage in the match… The start of this reply was…

I personally think the AWP is extremely important; last season, I saw a team win every single qual match through #6… and still be placed around 10/11 due to issues with getting the AWP. That could critically impact a team’s standings for alliance selection and for potential Excellence Award, even w…

[image] TeamTX: last season The big difference between last season and this season is that you weren’t really going out of your way to get the AWP last season; it just happened to be along one of the more beneficial autonomous routes anyways, you didn’t have to really “give anything up” to co…

as we saw in Harvard west lakes 2 robot reveals and marches against each other that the auton of 20 points could make ring focused scoring very viable on a lower level of competition. These “matches” did prove how powerful the auton points could be. A key point is that these where just a 1v1 and no…

I think the reason they reduced the bonus was so that teams that successfully rush neutral goals have less of an overwhelming advantage. Previously, if an alliance grabs 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 3 neutral goals during auton, they will gain that huge advantage, and they will also likely gain the signif…

[image] Xenon27: I think the reason they reduced the bonus was so that teams that successfully rush neutral goals have less of an overwhelming advantage. Previously, if an alliance grabs 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 3 neutral goals during auton, they will gain that huge advantage, and they will also l…

[image] StuartV: Maybe excluding neutral mogo from the Auton score, instead of reducing the the overall impact of Auton would be better for teams who don’t want to rush the centre but instead collect rings or their alliance mogo. To keep the multiple ways of earning points for the different stra…

Why did the GDC change the auton bonus?

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Just putting this here so it’s documented in a proper thread