Sensors for Drones Vehicles for Riggers/Dronomancers, Checking my sanity at the door. Do I even understand this? Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[suoq]

The following comes from various places in Arsenal and the main book with confusion added by the errata.

Belief #1: To upgrade the Sensor rating of the drone/vehicle you upgrade the rating of sensors on the the vehicle.

Belief #2: Vehicles come with the following sensors.

• Atmosphere Sensor (taking up 1 Capacity)
• 2 Cameras (front and back, taking up 2 Capacity)
• 2 Laser Range Finders (front and back, taking up 2 Capacity)
• 2 Motion Sensors (front and back, taking up 2 Capacity)
• Radar (taking up 5 Capacity)

Belief #3: Here's the cost for those sensors.

Atmosphere Sensor (Rating 1–3) 1 2 Rating x 25¥
Camera (trideo) (Rating 1–6) 1–6 / 1 — Rating x 100¥
Laser Range Finder 1 8 100¥
Motion Sensor 1 4 50¥
Radar (Rating 1–6) 5 8 Rating x 200¥

Belief #3: Here's the sensor capacity of various drones/vehicles

Sensor Packages Capacity Signal
RFID 1 0
Micro 1 2
Handheld/Minidrone 3 3
Mounted/Small Drone 5 4
Medium Drone 6 4
Large Drone 8 4
Vehicle 12 5

Here's where it all goes sideways.
I don't see upgrading the Atmosphere Sensor as making much of a difference and it doesn't appear one can upgrade the Laser Range Finder or the Motion Sensor.

So... What I'm seeing is to get the vehicle/drone sensor rating up to 6 you'll want to buy 2 rating 6 cameras and a rating 6 radar. (cost of 2400 ¥ total)
For the Medium Drone it makes sense to toss the Radar and Atmosphere Sensor, meaning anything Medium or smaller is just camera upgrades (1200 ¥ total for rating 6).

Not sure what to do about the large drone, although I'm leaning towards assuming they removed the Atmosphere Sensor, the motion sensors and a single rangefinder and leaving the upgrades the same as the vehicle.

This post has been edited by suoq: Jul 26 2010, 07:14 PM