From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE REPLYING TO "HOUSE RULES"
Date:	Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:53:00 +0200

> Because it >IS< broken. All-or-nothing damage is anything but realistic.
> And I'm still wondering if my post about how I meant the example lightly...
> in technical terms here it is.

Well if you want realism, you'd better look for a different system.
SR is designed to look realistic (like the movies) not to actually
be realistic.

> An Ingram SuperMach SMG is capable of firing 15 rounds in one complex
> action. If it does so, the damage goes up to 21D. Now, whereas light
> pistol rounds will bounce off of average "street" armors (armor jacket), 15
> light pistol rounds have a force exceeding that of a Panther Assault Cannon.
> And either A) all of them will hit. Or B) all of them will miss. If they
> hit, it's death. Unless you're in HEAVY armor (hardened) or have one hell
> of a body rating/combat pool/karma pool/armor stack, you're dead. With my
> system you resist 6 power instead of 21.

I think you dont quite understand whant Full Auto means. Full Auto is not
Supression fire, when firing in Full Auto mode you dont spray a whole area
in the hope that you'll hit someone/something. In your example the horrendous
damage code is justified by the fact that all 15 bullets hit - now dont
tell me that 15 bullets (no matter what calliber) donr mean certain death.
On the other hand what you describe is supression fire, the attacker
sprays 15 rounds in the defenders direction and only a few if any
hit - and that is reflected by the supression fire rules.

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