As I mentioned in another thread, I'm GMing a character with five point amnesia who woke up in an alley with A D-wound and two boxes of overflow. He took a whopping eleven stress-points. In addition to losing a hand in the surgery, his Move-by-wire is fucked, his advanced prototype headware package is disconnected from his neural system and as his throat was cut, his extensive voice modulation is malfunctioning.

But the topic of the thread is about one particular injury. He lost his left cyber-eye in a nasty encounter with a monowhip, and now is only using the one.

As we have discussed in the SR3R threads, the cyclops rules are a little stupid, so I'm looking to you all, and Kagetenshi for good penalties. I imagine it shouldn't be a problem when "taking aim" seeing as most people shut their eye to look down the sight anyway.

However, the main thing I wonder about, is that this poor slag is left with one very swanky cyber-eye, delta-ware with almost every bell and whistle short of an eye gun.


Image-Link
Low-Light
Thermographic
Flare Compensation
Opticam
Microscopic Vision
Retinal Duplication
Electronic Vision Magnification
High Power Laser (Tool, Designator, Microphone, Optiscan Link)

So what works in a cyber-eye without a partner? I imagine the Optiscan doesn't, because you need the other eye as a receiver, but what are your opinions on the rest?

What happened to the cyber dolphin?

Here is the list from M&M p44 on Single-eye Accessories:
The following accessories are single-eye enhancements: Camera, Display Link, Eye Datajack, Eye Laser Systems, Eye Weapon System, Image Link, Opticam, Retinal Clock.

Use the Cyclops rules. Your accessories all work (except for the optiscan) but you take a -2 penalty to ranged attacks because your depth perception is screwed.

Some 'clops thoughts. I'm tired and busy, so sources and verification come later:

Stereopsis is, IIRC, mostly useful at fairly short range. By the time it matters how far away someone is from you, shooting-wise, you're not going to be using stereopsis. Ditch the penalty for shooting.

Melee, on the other hand, is someplace where depth perception is very important. Also very important is field of view, which is reduced by IIRC somewhere around 30 degrees—your blind spots are simply bigger. Penalties to melee are probably called for.

Penalties to perception might be called for, though it's so coarsely-defined that I'm not really sure it's a good idea trying to add them. Anywhere where field of view is important, I guess, might be a candidate for a penalty.

This might be useful.

Edit: as for 'ware, most of it should probably work solo—a few things slap an emitter in one eye and a receiver in the other, like IIRC the Ultrasound Vision, but they're the exception.

~J

That article is exceptionally helpful, thankyou.

I can even have the character read it as a way of getting used to his new disability once he gets his jack cleared of resin and gets his neural pathwas re-connected to his datajack (nanite scrubbers removed a lot of his super-conductives).

As someone who is 20/20 in one eye and nearly blind in the other, the Nora artical is right on. Driving is sucky, sking is sucky, but if anything my trap/skeet scores have gotten better because my time-to-target has improved.

I'm still looking for the dolphin reference. Of is he french and you mean you were beaten up by the heir to the throne, the Dauphin?

pssssst.


I think it's what some people call a "joke".

Maybe he was fighting an antagonist that I posted to Dumpshock long ago.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...4264&hl=dolphin

If you got to explain it, it ain't funny

'cause until you said it, I'd forgotten that bit.

I think I was focusing on the damage and stuff.