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Message no. 1
From: Scott W iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject: Chippin' through the daisies
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 12:37:20 -0400
So, you've just discovered the Chipjack Expert Driver, a wiz little
piece of 'ware that makes Skillwires worth it (thanks, Mongoose!).
You're wondering, as you build your character, whether or not to get a
Rating 4, or 5, or 6, when all of a sudden you find another 'wire
enhancing piece of gear, the Multi-Slot Chipjack (it's the Softlink,
but with a brand new look for the '60s!). So, your little munchkin
mind churning, you raise a question: How do these two interact?

I see three options (oop, I'm breaking voice; I mean _you_ see three
options):

A) You buy one CED, and it works at its full rating for all slots.

B) You have to buy a separate CED for each slot.

C) You only buy one CED, but you must split the Task Pool given between
the softs (i.e., it's like a regular pool, you can use all the dice for
one chipped skill, or some for one and save some for the other).

So, having seen these three options, what do you decide?

-Boondocker
Message no. 2
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: Chippin' through the daisies
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:19:38 -0500 (EST)
Scott W <iscottw@*****.nb.ca> writes:
> So, you've just discovered the Chipjack Expert Driver, a wiz little
> piece of 'ware that makes Skillwires worth it (thanks, Mongoose!).
> You're wondering, as you build your character, whether or not to get a
> Rating 4, or 5, or 6, when all of a sudden you find another 'wire
> enhancing piece of gear, the Multi-Slot Chipjack (it's the Softlink,
> but with a brand new look for the '60s!). So, your little munchkin
> mind churning, you raise a question: How do these two interact?

IMHO:

> B) You have to buy a separate CED for each slot.

The CED says you have to buy one CED for each Chipjack. The
MSC is one Chipjack with multiple slots, but later says that each slot
acts as a separate independent Chipjack. It's another case where I
would complain about word choice given more motivation. If I didn't
see "multi-slot chipjack" anywhere, I wouldn't have to guess.

Personally, I can live with a CED and single MSC. I can
usually switch chips in time. However, it seems like a little extra
wiring and a DNI should give you the ability to change the slot hooked
up to the CED, but that's just me. Is the CED is incompatible with
headware memory skills?

Mark
Message no. 3
From: Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: Chippin' through the daisies
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:52:00 -0600
: So, you've just discovered the Chipjack Expert Driver, a wiz little
:piece of 'ware that makes Skillwires worth it (thanks, Mongoose!).
:You're wondering, as you build your character, whether or not to get a
:Rating 4, or 5, or 6, when all of a sudden you find another 'wire
:enhancing piece of gear, the Multi-Slot Chipjack (it's the Softlink,
:but with a brand new look for the '60s!). So, your little munchkin
:mind churning, you raise a question: How do these two interact?
:
: I see three options (oop, I'm breaking voice; I mean _you_ see three
:options):
:
:A) You buy one CED, and it works at its full rating for all slots.
:
:B) You have to buy a separate CED for each slot.
:
:C) You only buy one CED, but you must split the Task Pool given between
:the softs (i.e., it's like a regular pool, you can use all the dice for
:one chipped skill, or some for one and save some for the other).
:
: So, having seen these three options, what do you decide?
:
:-Boondocker


The Multi-slot Chipjack's game effect says "Each slot acts as an
independent Chipjack". That would mean the answer is B.

As a house rule, C might fly, but I personally think the CED would get
"confused", if it tried to augment more than 1 Skillsoft at a time. Maybe
you could reduce the CED level by the number of extra chips currently
slotted in the MSC?

Mongoose
Message no. 4
From: Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: Chippin' through the daisies
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:06:39 -0600
: Personally, I can live with a CED and single MSC. I can
:usually switch chips in time. However, it seems like a little extra
:wiring and a DNI should give you the ability to change the slot hooked
:up to the CED, but that's just me. Is the CED is incompatible with
:headware memory skills?

The CED seems to be described as a hardware improvement to a chipjack (maybe
it augments the speed which they can retrieve info, "oversamples" the
signal, etc.); that would mean it works only for the one chipjack, and not
for skillsofts stored in memory. I think this is what is intended.

If that seems wrong to you, maybe a router could be used to connect a CED to
mutiple slots / jacks / memory, and then to switch at will the specific
skill it's task pool was augmenting (as a "use cyber") action, as long as
the connection was there. The problem here would be, what if you had more
than 1 CED hooked to the router? Could they both boost the same skillsoft?

Mongoose

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