| From: | gurth@******.nl (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | SR4 Conversion |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:20:19 +0200 |
> My not so humble opinion is that if you build a character
> in the 2057-2060 timeline (SR3), and you get that guy
> a tricked out SotA set of wires, that guy's wires are 10
> years old and out of date in 2070 (SR4), and so if the
> rules put your guy at a technological disadvantage, that's
> life in the shadows.
Whereas if you look at them in terms of game rules, nothing will really
change, IMHO. An SR3 character with wired-2 is just as fast as an SRII
character with wired-2 (and otherwise identical stats) -- it's only that
instead of getting 2 or 3 actions before anyone else does, under SR3
rules the character will get 2 or 3 actions _after_ everyone else has
had one...
> [Description of the exact computer I'm typing this email
> on deleted]
>
> Your analogy is an odd point of view. The way I see it,
> your spiffy 'new' laptop is exactly as good as it was
> when you bought it.
Agreed. As long as you're only going to use it to run 1996-'98 (or so)
software on, there will be no problems whatsoever. But if you want to
run current software on that same machine, it will be (as the beautiful
Dutch saying goes) slower than thick shit.
But this makes it a bad comparison to street sams, because SOTA for
computers goes a lot faster that SOTA for most other things. A car from
1995 is not as far behind a modern car in terms of performance as a
computer from that same year is behind a modern one.
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