[Diaspora] Rules question for Maintenance roles (and probably an errata)

[Doyce Testerman]

Hi all,

On page 75 of the book, one of the modifiers for Maintenance rolls is the
Tech Level of the system you're in. Specifically, it says:

The ship needs to roll it's Trade Skill against a target value of zero, the
target value modified as below:

   - Station is lower technology than the ship: add the difference.


So, reading that, it's pretty clear. If I have a T2 ship and I'm in a T0
system, the target value for my maintenance roll changes from 0 to 2.

However...

On page 77, in the second example given (T2 civilian cargo hauler), the last
line reads:

*If she is heading into low technology space as she travels (-2), the
contracts are less secure and the base [bonus to her roll] is +1 [instead of
+3] against the Maintenance 0.*

*
*
So, obviously, this example is doing things completely differently:

   1. A penalty to the character's roll, rather than a increase to the
   Target Value.
   2. What appears to be a flat -2 for "low technology space", rather than a
   sliding scale.

So, which one of these expresses the game-as-intended, and which one gets
added to the errata? :)

-- 
Doyce Testerman
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