Well, I see the problem in fr_data.xml with the Knowledge Skill Specializations... there aren't any! The translate attribute is blank and you've put the translated values in where the English ones should be! (well, for Languages at lesat, the rest look right)

Let me fix that before your release
Or maybe it is simpler if you do it? Since you got the French in there anyway

Nevermind, it's done and pushed to the repository. You can update from my sig

Done and uploaded! Find/replace is much easier than trying to understand it! I can piece bits of it together but those juniour high French classes are long forgotten.
Edit: whoops. Looks like we both did it at the same time. At least we came up with the same results! I uploaded your version to replace mine just to be safe.

To address the other items now that the Language Specialization one is taken care of...

I'm going to leave Incompetent Skills the way they are since they behave in the same manner as other Active Skills that you cannot default in. I'd prefer to only disable skills that are a part of a Skill Group so that you don't end up confusing grouped Skills with Incompetent Skills. What I should change, however, is disabling the Specialization field for a Skill unless you have at least a Rating 1 in it since you cannot specialise in something if you're not trained in it.

Knowledge Skills and their Specializations are already sorted by their translated value. Sorting them once they're added to the character is a more complicated matter and is only done when a save file is loaded.

I just meant the lists you can choose from, not the actual skills.

Can't we get something in the character XML to work with on the sheet? Pretty please? The rest sounds good enough.

The list of choices for both the Knowledge Skill and its Specializations are already sorted alphabetically by the translated name (it's just a property that's set on the control). Is there something that's appearing out-of-order?

You should be able to determine that by checking the <extra /> tag for the Incompetent Quality. <extra /> will match the name of an Active Skill. A Skill really doesn't know that it's Incompetent - the only thing it knows is that its maximum Rating is 0. Would it help to output the maximum Rating for Skills? Most of them will always show as 6 or higher since those are the actual limits of Skills (Critters like Dragons tend to go over these limits), but Incompetent Skills will always show their maximum Rating as 0.

What's funny is that Unwired does say that agents, IC, Pilot, System and Firewall should have them.
Page 94 has a table for Cracking Copy Protection that includes all of those.
Also page 108 of unwired says the following


Operating Systems are System and Firewall bundled together.
The rules for software is crazy. The time it takes to hack it is long enough that you would spend most of your time hacking it and not actually running, and the rules for using non-hacked make it so easy to trace the user of non-hacked that you would be crazy to use non-hacked. It's like a catch-22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Both Copy Protectino and Registration don't take up any Capacity and are allows on things that don't normally allow program options.

Would be nice! Could do some graphical bars or something with a value and its maximum

That is really messed up, 'cause UN 114 says only certain types can have them. Seems like the book is contradicting itself. You'd think things like Agents and IC should have access to options, especially Copy Protection and Registration since the corps would be purchasing them from somewhere! So the question is should all Matrix Programs come with those options, even if they're not typically allowed to have Program Options, or should those wacky items just be given access to Program Options in general and let people sort out what can and cannot receive them?

Easy enough. Skills will have a <ratingmax /> tag in the next update then.

Have a great vacation!

Here's a little something for you to work on when you get back:

Adding a Firewall Commlink Operating System Upgrade to a Commlink OS on a Commlink does not update the Firewall rating of the Commlink itself, instead the Firewall rating for the Commlink shows as 0. Adding a System Commlink Operating System Upgrade appears to work as expected.

I would say yes, have those two be on everything, and let all other only be on the ones specifically stated as being allowed.
In reality all purchased software would have both those built in. That's the way it is now, I expect it will be the same 60 years from now.

bah, double post

Whoops. Turns out it was trying to use the System Rating of the Firewall which will always be 0. I'll have this fixed in the next update.

k. So all non-Suite, non-Hacked Matrix Programs (and Autosofts, etc.) will come with Copy Protection and Registration pre-equipped, regardless of them usually have access to Program Options or not. I'll have this in the next update.

Turns out there was enough small, quick stuff to justify doing another quick update before I head off, so here it is!

Build 247

• character Alias is now shown in the prompt to save a character when exiting the application to make identifying which characters to save easier
• Quality names are now translated in the error message when trying to change your Metatype
• Add Sprite button now reads from the translation file
• required and forbidden items are now translated in the Select Quality and Select Metamagic/Echo windows
• Adept Powers now have their Ratings properly reduced if a character's MAG is reduced
• Adept Powers can now go above Rating 6 based on the character's MAG Attribute
• added <ratingmax /> to the printout XML for Skills to show the maximum Rating the character would be able to acquire for the Skill
• Firewall and System Ratings are now properly restricted when adding a Commlink Operating System Upgrade to a Commlink Operating System
• fixed an issue where adding a Firewall Commlink Operating System Upgrade to a Commlink Operating System would cause a Commlink to believe its new Firewall Rating to be 0
• all non-Suite, non-Hacked Matrix Programs now come with Copy Protection and Registration

Modified Strings

• Message_UnsavedChanges

New Strings

• Button_AddSprite

At this rate, you'll never leave! And I'm not helping!

Audio Enhancements to audio sensors/enhancers have a capacity cost of 1 per rating, per SR4a p333. Current functionality has it at a capacity cost of 1 per enhancement, regardless of rating.

what heading paragraph? I can't find that on page 333.

Don't find it either

The list of knowledge quality types is not sorted by translated terms.

<removed>

Except that ammunition are linked to the category if I'm not mistaking, so buying the shotgun version with shotgun ammo won't let you reload. I think it's better to have accurate information (even though even with changed categories it won't require you to buy the base of the weapon to get the shotgun piece for example) than ease the hunt like you said, hunt that can pretty quickly return everything by just inputting weapon name in the search box

Stacking is not available in Create mode(important for stacked items and plugins(like splash grenades).

Stacking in create mode is done by buying each stack separately. You can't split/join stacks but each "buy" is a separate stack so if you need to have 5 splash grenades with one product and 5 splash grenades with another product, just buy 5 splash grenades twice and add the accessories (products) once for each stack afterwards.

It seems I can add whatever I want as a plugin in my Googles / Glasses / Contact Lenses / Hearbuds (and probably other items). Wasn't that limited to relevent stuff before ?
Same thing for Commlinks etc.

I'm gonna add a parachute right now to my Googles ! It's better to be prepared !

In my copy of SR4a, under the section labelled Audio Enhancements:



For clarification, I have the English 20th anniversary core rulebook.

Strange mine says:


There must be a difference in printings, and since there is no errata for sr4a...

I would think that if audio enhancements work that way video would as well. What does it say under Video Enhancements?

The section on Vision Enhancements says:

Interesting mine says:

I wonder which is the more recent version of the rules.
I wish they would release the errata for 4a. Strange how they have one be 1 per enhancement rating and the other is 1 per enhancement.

Speaking of which...would it be possible to make Registration optional? We generally assume that the programs a runner uses come without such "goodies", and AFAIK that also is the rule used for Missions.

Weird indeed, I got it in the French version and not in the English version.
French version mentions it is version 1.02 (April 2011), based on English version 1.00 (April 2009).

Both program options come at no cost, and on top of that, you can delete both at no cost too.

A negative quality seems to have disappeared -- or never was added, dunno.

I can't find "enemy" (RC 104) on the list.

It's right under the contacts, under the attributes, not in the qualities field.

Thank you, Deurk.

Howdy, been loving chummer btw. However, have encountered a few minor issues and bugs when tracking a rigger character. I can see that vehicle modifications are largely unimplemented at this time so I will save most that wish list for a later time.

Bug when purchasing matrix programs in career mode as gear directly on a vehicle: it allows you to select the hacked option and displays the price correctly at time of purchase (which is good). But charges full price and notes the full priced charge on the expense sheet.

Bug when printing vehicles, the show and page-break options react randomly at best in the vehicle blocks. Would seem the xsl templates do not differentiate between individual vehicle blocks. I don't know enough about xsl to make my own yet.

Bug with Autosofts: Missing hacked option.

Issue with programs Pilot and System: No option to designate the device a pilot/system program was designed for. Pilot and System software are very specific to the make and model of the device they are running on, suffering a -2 dice-pool when applied to a similar product and etc. Thus, would prefer the option to manually enter device name after selecting program as done for the Maneuver and Targeting autosofts.

Minor issue/design choice: System, Firewall, Response, and Signal are duplicated multiple times each in the gear list. Yet, the rules are the same for them on all devices. As in system/firewall is always limited by response and can be "hacked" for installing on vehicles, commlinks, and anything else with an embedded computer. It would be a simpler design to maintain if only have one entry each.

Wish list item: house-rule to allow directly editing the base stats(device rating, base-response, base-signal, sensor, etc) of an individual vehicle. I figure this might be easier to implement before the rest the vehicle stuff gets added so am mentioning it now...

Hope I haven't rambled too much. I have a game to prepare for now. Many thanks for the awesome character builder and your hard work. Have fun

I noticed this as well when I was working on the Vehicle Block template. This is a problem for all blocks that are repeated, like Commlinks and such.

I think I have a solution, but I have not tried it yet. I'll see if I can put some time into it this weekend.

Unwired also lists rules for piracy which greatly reduces the time to patch a hacked application since you can find p2p networks that have whole categories of apps to download in one shot.

You still end up having to make rolls once a month to ensure you find what you need to update your software so it doesn't get degraded.
They should have just included all of these things into the price and left it the way it was.
You don't see street samurai or mages making monthly rolls to see if their cyberware or spells work properly every month.

Ok, I have made a fix for Multiple Vehicle/Drone printing. You will need to download these two files and put them in your chummer/sheets folder. When Nebular gets back from vacation, he can put up the files in the real updates.

Shadowrun 4 Base.xslt
Vehicle Block.xsl

Starting to get more than a little off topic here. But you also don't see mages or street samurai getting their cyberware and spells for 1/10th the normal price. Nuyen per karma/bp software is cheap even before hacking.

Many thanks

deurk, see http://shadowrun.fr/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2729

Especially final post.

The question is, which is correct?

No freaking idea

What printing dates do you have in your books?
The one with the most resent printing date should be the most accurate version.

Oh, another thing I should of noticed before is that currently Vehicles are treating Pilot and System separately. However, per the description of Pilot it is the vehicles system.