| From: | Shawn Baumgartner <deosyne@*******.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Cyberdeck ratings (was Re: Book Reviews) |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:03:06 -0800 |
>From: Toaster
>Yeah! Damn Elves!!!!!
>okay, on a more relevant note, I have a question to
ask of everyone.!
>It concerns VR2.0, which since i hear very little
about it i assume most
>people
>dont know very much about it (and about decking in
general)
>it concerns the ratings of bod/sensor/mask/evade in
relation to the MPCP
>say the MPCP is 8, and i have a masking of 8.
>when i go into masking mode, increasing my masking
to 1.5X, does the new
>rating
>of 12 break the max-persona-rating rule or is it
allowable..?
>i believe it is allowable because it only represents
increased (almost
>jury-rigged)
>allocated resources, but was looking for other
opinions since the book
>didnt
>say it was allowable or wasn't allowable.
>anyway
>Cyberspunk
>
Perfectly legal. Just remember that the other ratings
are halved while doing so (And bandwidth gets halved
while in Bod or Evasion mode-ouch!). You're not
actually increasing anything, you're redirecting
processing power from everything else to that one
function.
Shawn
Love them decking rules!
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