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

[Brad Murray]

Hey Doyce -- great catch! In almost all cases, the examples are older text
than the rules, so the rule is right. We'll fix the example!

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Doyce Testerman
<smarter at average-bear.com>wrote:

> 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
> doyce.testerman at gmail.com • http://www.doycetesterman.com
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