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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Moving right along....
Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 16:05:10 -0700
Jeremy,
Glad to hear you agree with me. I guess it's my stunning logic.

On to Amonchare

Armor:
Handling increase for armor. I had totally forgot about that. One for 6 is
an exact conversion while 1 per 5 is prettier. Any opinions?

Handling:

Improved Suspension weights +5% chassis mass per level. Anyone agree or
disagree with this.

Base car has 3/6 handling or 4/8 with autopilot. Adding Basic Off-Road
Suspension gear changes it to 3/3 or 4/4 with autopilot. If mass of 10%
chassis mass is too light would you perfer 15 or 20% for basic level?

Improved Off-Road Suspension at 10% chassis mass per level?

Active Suspension with two levels. Base makes On-/Off-Road handling the same
while Improved Active Suspension subtracts one from above. Mass of 20% chassis
for base and 30% chassic fro Improved?

Improved Suspension may not be combined with any other suspension type. Base
Off-Road and Improved Off-Road suspensions may be combined (duh!). Active
Suspension (either level) cannot be combined with any other suspension type.

Passenger Accessories:

Glad you liked the Gyro-Stabliezed Expresso/Coffee Maker. I cannot take credit
for this little invention. The party Rigger (Whisper played Matt Drago)
invented this thing for his battle van. It's one of those great pieces of role-
playing he does from time to time like buying Thai Cooking 3 with Karma.

I invite you to try to come up with better seating arangements. I modified them
slightly form the RBB myself, because the descriptions contradict themselves.
Silly things like saying a bench seat will fit 1.5 people and then a little
while later saying it will fit up to 12 body points of people. 12 Body points
of people is 4 average sized people!!!!!

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
Message no. 2
From: "Michael A. Kauffman" <mak9@******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Moving right along....
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 14:24:44 EDT
>Armor:
> Handling increase for armor. I had totally forgot about that. One for 6 is
>an exact conversion while 1 per 5 is prettier. Any opinions?

+1 per 5 sounds good
>
>Handling:
>
>Improved Suspension weights +5% chassis mass per level. Anyone agree or
>disagree with this.
>
OK.

>Base car has 3/6 handling or 4/8 with autopilot. Adding Basic Off-Road
>Suspension gear changes it to 3/3 or 4/4 with autopilot. If mass of 10%
>chassis mass is too light would you perfer 15 or 20% for basic level?
>
I would like to go with 20% for the basic level. Any other thoughts?

>Improved Off-Road Suspension at 10% chassis mass per level?

Let's see if I understand saying. A car with an autopilot has 4/8 handling.
The owner(or his mechanic) adds Off-road suspension. Handling is now 4/4. If
level 2 Improved off-road suspension is included the handling would 6/2. The
"cost" would be +40% to chassis mass (+20 for basic, +20 for 2 levels). I
just don't think 2 is a realistic off-road handling. Can anyone out there
convince me otherwise?
>
>Active Suspension with two levels. Base makes On-/Off-Road handling the same
>while Improved Active Suspension subtracts one from above. Mass of 20% chassis
>for base and 30% chassic fro Improved?

I can live with this. But I would propose raising the values to +25/+40 for
Basic and Improved respectively.
>
>Improved Suspension may not be combined with any other suspension type. Base
>Off-Road and Improved Off-Road suspensions may be combined (duh!). Active
>Suspension (either level) cannot be combined with any other suspension type.
>
That's what I thought.

>Passenger Accessories:
>
>Glad you liked the Gyro-Stabliezed Expresso/Coffee Maker. I cannot take credit
>for this little invention. The party Rigger (Whisper played Matt Drago)
>invented this thing for his battle van. It's one of those great pieces of role
>playing he does from time to time like buying Thai Cooking 3 with Karma.
>
>I invite you to try to come up with better seating arangements. I modified the
>slightly form the RBB myself, because the descriptions contradict themselves.
>Silly things like saying a bench seat will fit 1.5 people and then a little
>while later saying it will fit up to 12 body points of people. 12 Body points
>of people is 4 average sized people!!!!!

I'm still working on this. I should have something written later today or
tomorrow some time. Basically I would like to be able to vary the sizes of
bucket seats rather than just having 2 chioces; normal or large.
>
> See Ya in Shadows,
> Jason J Carter
> The Nightstalker
>
Later,
Mike Kauffman
AKA Amonchare

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