Not sure if I'm just missing it, but does a rigger need a different set of autosofts for each drone/vehicle, or just one for his/her commlink? I noticed that the Drone Rigger archetype appears to have a single set for all drones, but I don't tend to trust the archetypes for rules judgments.

Thanks in advance!

With the the exception of Manuever Autosofts, you can use one copy of an autosoft for every drone. Obviously a Doberman or Steel Lynx cannot use a rotorcraft manuever autosoft.

It's far more fun to upgrade the 'legs' of a Steel Lynx to 'real' legs, then install some solid fuel rockets and add Maneuver Autosofts for both Pilot Anthromorph and Pilot Exotic Vehicle (Jumpjet), though.

This seems to be a point of contention. We've had other threads (I started one I think) regarding it. It appears, to me, that each drone needs it's own autosofts. The support for this, as it was explained to me, is in that different drones come prepackaged with autosofts. Others have mentioned that, even if this were the case, it doesn't take much effort to crack right protection and copy autosofts for your other drones. Then you fall into the realm of the individual GM picking apart which softs would work across different vehicle types and which would not. I remember thinking it was all a little muddled.

Maybe this is more cut and dry than I thought. I've admittedly not ready my book in a while, and I was trying to grasp other game concepts as well at the time.

Of course each drone needs their own Autosofts running on it.
But still, nothing keeps you from cracking and copying, Pirate...

In the end, each team will only buy each Program/Skillsoft/Autosoft... once.
And there'S nothing wrong with that - sharing is caring.

I came across this problem earlier, and I calculated that the sample Drone Rigger has only paid for his autosofts one time.

you could say that its not the weapon type thats programmed into the autosoft, but rather the ballistics information needed for the drone to calculate how to hit a target.

Actually looking at my book again it is rather clear on targeting, you need it for the category of firearm. Such as longarms, pistols, automatics, and heavy weapons so you can ignore my commentary on targeting.

Well, any weapon a drone could use would be mounted to the drone, and since all weapons mounted to a vehicle uses Gunnery rather than the skill appropriate to its type then all the targeting autosofts are just like a Gunnery Skillsoft, but for drones.

Hah, that's interesting that the Targeting Autosoft description says that you need one for each weapon type....

You already solved this problem by looking at the archetype Drone Rigger. He only nhas one copy of each autosofts, which means he uses the same softs for all his drones.

as a player, you use Gunnery to fire the weapons when controlling the drone as a mounted weapon, but the Pilot program uses autosofts as it's skills and you need the proper autosoft.

If you had automatics mounted on 2 different drones, you'd only need 1 autosoft for it.

I don't know how many folks are still watching this thread, but does everyone else play with autosofts affecting response? It's hard when your drone has a Pilot of 3, that means you can only run 2 'softs without affecting initiative. And Pilot upgrades are expensive.

thats how we play, but we make up for it by letting the rigger jack cars and sell em for cash.

Please don't flare up the pilot fight...