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DougRed4
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 Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:18 pm Post subject: Programming Droids |
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In my recent game my players wanted to program their astromech droid, and purchased the appropriate SkillWare. I found some basic information in the Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids book for how much it should cost and more or less handwaved things at the table regarding the time involved. Upon closer examination, though, it takes WAY more time than I would have guessed.
Based on the type of droid (Second Degree) and the difficulty (Difficult), that book is saying it should take 36 hours. 
I'm thinking of making such programming take significantly less. Even half seems way too much. I'm thinking of having it take 1/3rd the calculated time, which would still mean 12 hours in this case (enough to delay the party significantly).
What do you think?
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KageRyu
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I would say 36 hours is a steal. Especially given the sophistication of droids in Star Wars. Programming complex tasks on machinery is a time consuming task.
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pakman
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I would agree it should not be easy.
If you want, make the higher the skill check reduce the time.
Maybe for every 5 points (or 4 whatever) - reduce the time a couple of hours.
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shootingwomprats
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| Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:14 am Post subject: Re: Programming Droids |
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| DougRed4 wrote: | | I'm thinking of making such programming take significantly less. Even half seems way too much. I'm thinking of having it take 1/3rd the calculated time, which would still mean 12 hours in this case (enough to delay the party significantly). |
A couple of suggestions, they could significantly reduce time by having more people work on the programming, increase the difficulty to reduce time, perhaps have a static number with X dice every time the droid has to do the new thing, maybe a level of difficulty can be reduced by adding in a quirk that could make things difficult, perhaps when the droid is making a roll have the wild die be negative on a 1-2 instead of a 1 ...
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garhkal
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I forget where the rule is, but you can halve the time at doubling the difficulty..
As for having multiple people join in, how many could realistically get in on programming a droid? 1 or 2 others??
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