From:	R Andrew Hayden <rahayden@*****.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: VCC: The End Product & more
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 93 06:16:03 CET

On Fri, 29 Jan 1993, Jason Carter, Nightstalker wrote:

>
> Hi again,

> I understand that any design rules we come up with will contradict RBB, but
> that was not what I was trying to comment on. When making construction rules,
> one must at least have an idea of what the end product will look like. I know
> you play (or have played) Car Wars and the condensed write-up of a car looks
> alot different than the construction sheet for the car. I'm just saying the
> end product should look something like the standard Shadowrun vehicle stats.
If
> we at least keep that in mind, we might be able to make the best possible
> system.

In the end, the variables we use to quantify the characteristics for the
vehicles produced with our system our could the be relatively incompatible
with the RBB. The RBB uses 'CF' while we are (at this time) using
something we are abstratly calling a "space". Whatever a car looks like
when written on paper, it is not going to look like the RBBs write up and
I think trying to mold ourself to producing vehicles inherently consistant
with the RBB could be hampering.

Insteal I think we should concentrate on producing totally viable
construction rules that work with SHADOWRUN, because in many cases we are
either heavily modifying the RBB or even abandoning it. What we would
have in the end is a viable construction system that while it might be
basically incompatible with the RBB, any person owning the SR2 rules would
be able to pick up and throw well-produced vehicles into their campaigns.

> As for combat situations not covered by the rules, what are those. I'm not
> saying they don't exist, but the only ones I've ever dealt with were chases
and
> melee support, and they are pretty well covered.

If in the end it turns out that nothing needs to be dealt with, great, but
put it on the Plan of attact so that when we get to that point we can all
say "gee, it molds perfectly" and go to the next step. Never discount
anything in the future, because you never know what might happen.




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