QUOTE (CanRay @ Feb 12 2012, 02:49 AM)
That's because dwarves are denser than humans, having muscles like a reptile's. It's not just their skulls that are thicker.
So the smaller combat drone has a thicker hide than something non combaty in the same size category and stronger motors/hydraulics to boot to haul the armor around at increased speed . .
While the bigger Transportation-Drone has no need for a thicker hide and needs to save weight to be capable of transporting more of a pay load, thus thinner skin and less body for it's size? O.o
I'd say it fits pretty well . .
QUOTE (Yerameyahu @ Feb 12 2012, 08:20 AM)
This is completely wrong, though. Drones have always used Body in a fundamentally different way from metahumans. Body X drones are each a whole category, similar in size and options. That's the reason the cyborgs are so weird. I'm not saying things *should* be this way, but they definitely are.
Things are somewhat different for non-drone vehicles, but not too much. Body is still related to size for vehicles more than it is for metahumans.
Well, in Metahumans, you have a pretty limited range for models to which to compare the body stat to though . .
You have Dwarves and their Metavariants. Humans and their Metavariant. Elves and their Metavariants. Orks and their Metavariants.
And Trolls and their Metavariants. And there, for the most part, the body/size relaton is, in my eyes, pretty much consistent too.
Meta-Sapients like Horse-People, Yes-Men and Windlings seem to adhere to it pretty much as well, if i ain't misremembering.
I'd guess that the body stat in drones has more to do with their weigh from their robuster materials than their size . .
More weight, more stability, more guns that can be fitted!