 Agents and EW, Can an agent Scan by itself? |
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 Aug 24 2006, 08:17 PM
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The Dragon Never Sleeps  Group: Admin Posts: 6,924 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,667  |
When acting on their own agents effectively get Computer, Cybercombat, Data Search, and Hacking skills = Pilot. Notice there is no EW skill. I can understand them not having Software or Hardware skills.
One result of this is that Scan, which is EW + Program rating, is difficult for Agents. If the commlink the agent is on doesn't have Scan program available, then the commlink has a default scan at rating 1. Assuming that not having skill means defaulting, that could mean a pool of Scan 1 - 2 for defaulting. Of course one way to get around this is to load your agent with an EW autosoft, but I was wondering if this situation was intentional. This affects agents performing other EW dependent such as Intercepting Wireless signals. |
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Aug 24 2006, 08:20 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
First, the Penalty for Defaulting is -1.
Second, you don't default if you got the Program but not the Skill - you simply let the Program run by itself. |
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Aug 24 2006, 08:23 PM
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The Dragon Never Sleeps Group: Admin Posts: 6,924 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,667 |
My bad. Then this doesn't seem as bad as it might be. |
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Aug 24 2006, 09:08 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
silly question, but where did you get that second part rotbart?
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Aug 24 2006, 09:13 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
When you act in multiple nodes, and your persona is forced to make tests in those you are not able to act right now, it only uses program ratings. Also, defaulting only applies to tests using Attribute+Skill. |
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Aug 25 2006, 03:24 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 734 Joined: 30-August 05 Member No.: 7,646 |
You can't default for Electronic Warfare tests.
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Aug 25 2006, 09:21 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
Since it is an agent I would say that the examples on skills are a bit off. Just say that the Agent has Computer & Cracking skills equal to pilot rating (modified by response of course).
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Aug 25 2006, 09:26 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 984 Joined: 15-June 06 Member No.: 8,717 |
Use the EWarfare Autosoft
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