| From: | Max Rible <cheshire@*****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Sr Companion |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:32:38 -0800 |
>Of course (as long as the Chrome is maintained)you don't get slower, but=
you
>get **relativly** slower! So they are only two possibilities:
>-Making new cyberware faster and faster and faster, but this makes the
>difference between People with and without too big
What, exactly, is advancing in the SOTA of Wired Reflexes? Speed, right?
So the latest reflexes coming out are faster than the previous set and,
by transitivity, *even faster* than uncybered people.
> or
>-slowly degrade the old Cyberware.
>IMO the last makes prefectly sense (we use a rule like this (I didn't see
>the comanion until now) since a long time..
There are still people who are perfectly normal out there who *aren't*
having their reflexes degrade. In the absence of increases in the SOTA,
people with Wired Reflexes should have a consistent edge over unwired
people. Adding SOTA improvements in Wired Reflexes shouldn't change that.
The basic problem with the SOTA rules is that there's a huge pool of things
they refer to that don't take SOTA improvements. The SOTA does not make
broken arms harder to treat or Mana Dart harder to invent, so advances in
the SOTA should not reduce your Biotech skill (which you use to treat broken
arms) or your Magic Theory skill. If the SOTA made advances in how you=
treat
broken arms, then that should be reflected by increases in Biotech skill--
the old techniques haven't gotten any worse, but the new ones are better.
In the Matrix, everything is based on human-written software, and the SOTA
rules work because all the software is being upgraded: the fundamentals
of the world are being changed. No matter how many scientists you have in
a research lab, you're not going to change the basic nature of medicine and
magic theory (unless this is heralding the upcoming Mage: the Ascension
crossover, and it turns out that the Technocracy is still changing the rules
of reality).
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