From:	Sheldon Rose <scrose@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Rollerblades
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 11:38:36 -0500

Wafflemeisters wrote:
>
> >
> > Re: Rollerblades (David Buehrer , 12:36)
> >
> > Fade wrote:

> >
> > You can still walk okay on uneven ground, as long as it's hard. If it's
> > soft it really slows you down.

>
> Soft surfaces are FINE- its the broken pavement that BITES. I'd expect
> 205X skates to fix this problem somewhat, either with wheel locks that
> let you walk over broken pavement, suspension, smartwheels, improved
> wheel compounds / pnuematic wheels, or some other wakkiness (just bigger
> wheels, like on the "offroad skates" would help, but "trick
skates", for
> EX, have TINY wheels). Even today, the differnece between $75 and $350
> skates is pretty big (reduced atletic test TNs for beter skates, I'd
> say, both for speed and "trouble" manuevers)

I actually created levels skates and related skills
Atletics/Skating/ Blades, quads, skateboard just because you can do one
does not mean you can the others nearly as well...


75 nuyen discount store recreational skates +1 TN
125 nuyen average quality recreational skates no TN modifiers
175 nuyen above average recreational skates -1 TN
250 nuyen high Quality recreational skates -2 TN
350 nuyen semi pro/ entry level competive skates -3 TN
500+ nuyen professional competion level skates -4 TN

Now comes the tricky bit skill vs skate quality...

You have to have a base atletics:skating of at least 2x the level of the
skates TN modifier in order to use the better skates... Otherwise those
TN modifiers not only don't exist they reverse.

IE someone with Atletics:Skating 1/3 could not use the top to grades of
skates they would not be able to control them. They just don't have the
skill to contoll the more sentive and faster reactions of better skates