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> Sensor Capacity for Micro/Medium Drones, is there errata for this, or did I just miss it?
Captain K
post Nov 3 2008, 07:30 PM
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As you might expect, given the extremely specific nature of this question, I'm asking because it's pertinent to my current character's development. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

I want to buy him a Renraku Stormcloud drone (medium-sized) and a Shiawase Kanmushi (micro-sized) specifically for the purposes of surveillance and intel-gathering, so it's going to be pretty important to know exactly how many sensors I can pack into the little things. But the RAW don't seem to mention exactly how much sensor capacity a medium drone or microdrone is meant to have.


You can look at the table on p.325 of the BBB and see specific info for the sensor capacity of minidrones, small drones and large drones. There's an entry for "Micro"--that's all it says: "Micro"--so I guess you could use that value as the sensor capacity for a microdrone. And I suppose you could house-rule that the sensor capacity for medium drones is the same as for Small or Large drones, or some arbitrary value in between.

But on p.138 of Arsenal there's an entry that makes me wonder if anything was omitted from the BBB. It explains how the vehicle modification Improved Sensor Array works:

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...improving the size of the sensor package by one step: microdrone size becomes minidrone size, minidrone size becomes small drone size, small drone size becomes medium drone size, medium drone size becomes large drone size, large drone size becomes vehicle size...


Now, I'm not really interested in the Improved Sensor Array (at least, not now) but this text seems to be specifically referencing some values that I can't find anywhere in the books!


I'm hoping I've overlooked it and somebody here can point me to the relevant text. Anybody know?
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- Captain K   Sensor Capacity for Micro/Medium Drones   Nov 3 2008, 07:30 PM
- - Tarantula   Over in the handheld sensors. SR4, 325.   Nov 3 2008, 07:33 PM
|- - Captain K   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 3 2008, 02:33 PM) ...   Nov 3 2008, 07:39 PM
- - DireRadiant   "microsensors are the size of a coin or small...   Nov 3 2008, 07:44 PM
- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (Shadowrun Errata 1.5)p. 325 Sensor Packages...   Nov 3 2008, 07:53 PM
- - Captain K   I guess I'm not being clear enough here. The s...   Nov 3 2008, 07:59 PM
- - Tarantula   You'll also want to note p. 105 of arsenal. I...   Nov 3 2008, 07:59 PM
- - Captain K   Awesome, thanks Heath Robinson! Guess I just s...   Nov 3 2008, 08:00 PM
- - Tarantula   Yes, the Micro is for micro sensors (like an earri...   Nov 3 2008, 08:01 PM
- - Captain K   Great, thanks everybody. I should have realized ...   Nov 3 2008, 08:07 PM
- - Tarantula   Well, I like giving my micro drones improved senso...   Nov 3 2008, 08:10 PM
- - Heath Robinson   Sensor packages depend heavily on what kind of wor...   Nov 3 2008, 08:39 PM
|- - Captain K   QUOTE (Heath Robinson @ Nov 3 2008, 03:39...   Nov 3 2008, 08:56 PM
- - Tarantula   Correct. Vision enhancement/select sound filters ...   Nov 3 2008, 08:59 PM
- - Captain K   Page 105 of Arsenal says: QUOTE At the gamemaster...   Nov 3 2008, 09:05 PM
- - Tarantula   I'd say that the highest availability of any p...   Nov 3 2008, 09:12 PM
- - Captain K   Thanks for letting me bounce ideas around. I'm...   Nov 3 2008, 09:29 PM
- - Tarantula   Yes, but the software will count against the drone...   Nov 3 2008, 09:32 PM
|- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 3 2008, 09:32 PM) ...   Nov 3 2008, 09:44 PM
- - Tarantula   You're right, I mean, they only cost a thousan...   Nov 3 2008, 09:48 PM
- - Heath Robinson   About 4-5 CTs for a midway decent hacker. The rol...   Nov 3 2008, 10:13 PM
- - Tarantula   Why would you use a microdrone? Because it can ge...   Nov 3 2008, 10:25 PM
|- - Tachi   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 3 2008, 03:25 PM) ...   Nov 4 2008, 09:38 AM
|- - Heath Robinson   Tarantula, Sensor tests aren't applicable here...   Nov 4 2008, 09:56 AM
|- - Tachi   QUOTE (Heath Robinson @ Nov 4 2008, 02:56...   Nov 4 2008, 10:57 AM
|- - Tarantula   QUOTE (Heath Robinson @ Nov 4 2008, 02:56...   Nov 4 2008, 02:19 PM
|- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 4 2008, 02:19 PM) ...   Nov 4 2008, 05:28 PM
- - Heath Robinson   Easy repurposement: one transmission and the drone...   Nov 3 2008, 10:35 PM
- - Tarantula   Lets go with a different tack then. Chances of th...   Nov 3 2008, 11:08 PM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   Per Synner, cameras and microphones will have rati...   Nov 4 2008, 02:55 PM
- - Tarantula   In which case the camera's rating would be use...   Nov 4 2008, 03:45 PM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   As rating isn't limited by sensor package size...   Nov 4 2008, 03:55 PM
- - Tarantula   All depends on how it comes out. I could definite...   Nov 4 2008, 04:20 PM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   A rating 6 radar sensor doesn't.   Nov 4 2008, 05:15 PM
- - Tarantula   Perception test to tell if the person is that spec...   Nov 4 2008, 05:33 PM
|- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 4 2008, 05:33 PM) ...   Nov 4 2008, 05:41 PM
- - Tarantula   Commlinks aren't a drone, and don't follow...   Nov 4 2008, 05:58 PM
- - Heath Robinson   Facial Recognition software isn't a Drone eith...   Nov 4 2008, 05:59 PM
- - Tarantula   Yes, but since the thread was discussing using a d...   Nov 4 2008, 06:03 PM
- - Heath Robinson   You can order the Drone to ensure its camera is fi...   Nov 4 2008, 06:12 PM
- - Tarantula   And, yet, drones get stuck using the sensor rules,...   Nov 4 2008, 06:16 PM
- - Heath Robinson   Okay, so if you wanted to run a video you'd pr...   Nov 4 2008, 06:33 PM
- - Tarantula   If the drone fails its sensor test, the person isn...   Nov 4 2008, 06:49 PM
- - Heath Robinson   A Sensor Test exists to represent the Pilot progra...   Nov 4 2008, 07:28 PM
- - Tarantula   Its the GM call to handwave away the sensor test. ...   Nov 4 2008, 07:42 PM
|- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (Tarantula @ Nov 4 2008, 07:42 PM) ...   Nov 4 2008, 07:49 PM
- - Tarantula   If you do not detect the person with the sensor, y...   Nov 4 2008, 07:57 PM
|- - Heath Robinson   QUOTE (BBB @ page 162)To detect a person, cr...   Nov 4 2008, 08:21 PM
- - Tarantula   GM call in all cases. By RAW, if you fail the per...   Nov 4 2008, 08:23 PM
- - Heath Robinson   No, by RAW if the Drone fails the Sensor Test then...   Nov 4 2008, 08:58 PM
- - Tarantula   As far as the rules are concerned, the sensors did...   Nov 4 2008, 09:56 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Tarantula)... it quite obviously was not po...   Nov 4 2008, 10:37 PM
- - Tarantula   He didn't happen to look in the direction of t...   Nov 4 2008, 11:26 PM
- - Falconer   Tarantula: When I asked about the Arsenal errata.....   Nov 5 2008, 12:02 AM
- - Tarantula   Yes. What we don't know, is that if the diffe...   Nov 5 2008, 03:59 PM


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