| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on] |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:17:13 +0200 |
the street was...
> What are people's opinions of skillsofts in the military or FASA view?
> Personally, I would rather want my soldiers to _know_ the skill and
> not have to depend on a computer that can get damaged much more easily
> that human memory.
I'd say that in situations where the soldier has a chipjack or softlink,
this would make sense. Although I doubt the military would equip everyone
with a softlink-4 and four skill chips, not because it's too expensive but
because, like you say, they would want the troops to know the skills
themselves in case of damage to the cyberware.
> Do people allow skillsoft [non-active] use though simply a datajack, I
> believe the rules allow it but I think I've also seen some dissenting
> opinions about that.
I do not allow any chips to be inserted into datajacks. It just dosn't
make much sense -- it'd be like sticking a diskette into your PC's
parallel port, and _having_it_work_...
With an adaptor inserted into the datajack, though, I do allow chips to be
used through a datajack. Alternatively, you could put the chip in a
computer or datareader, and then plug that into your datajack.
> I would also have some military Riggers, normal enlistees would just
> Rig though the Datajack. 'Lifetime' enlistees would actually get a VCR
> (low level, their cost.)
I'd see fighter pilots get fitted with a VCR very rapidly, but apart from
them, not too many troops would have one IMHO. Although I don't think the
soldiers themselves would pay for the item -- it'd be like saying "Here's
an HMMWV to transport you across the battlefield. That'll be $45,000."
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