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At risk of being difficult - does that interact with military/civilian crewing requirements? Military craft need three so their stations are always manned, but robots don't need sleep. Suppose that applies for virtual crew/gunner as well, actually.

Based on my reproduction, doesn't look like it.

I'd say 1 - it's got the fewest question marks for how robots vary with sophonts.

Assuming you mean Gun Combat 2 and Science 2 as the final modifier, with both skill and characteristic DMs, yes.

... I bolded the relevant bit. Surely you realise you're being pedantic, right? This is for the finalisation section - the summary of the robot, which is where the argument started. That's just to make it clear for the reader what the robot is meant to do - that's why it says or list (all)...

so just for the record could you confirm that i am indeed a most handsome and generous lover? And to be fair, I didn't exactly help. A lot of the lark I was on earlier was me assuming it was Science (all) 4, not 3.

Y'know just buying Science 0 and Language 0 makes it pretty cheap? Only needs +25 Bandwidth like that. I'll concede I was confused about that from the outset, but if anything it makes these designs more permissive, not less. Bolted on the other bollocks - it's Cr9,360,430. I'd've rounded up...

Then I refer you to the passage on page 76. It's identical to any sophont with Science 0 - they can tackle all Science related skills with DM+0, plus their INT (or EDU) DM. Same for robots.

Could you explain to me why that matters here? Buy Science 0 and Language 0, you're off to the races.

Omega's got more than enough bandwidth, trust me on that. As for the rest - there's a 10% - 20% discount. Even up to 80%. Even then, it allows you to round off the price. Omega's fine.

Buying Science 0 with INT 15 would still get you Science (all) 3, right? That's what the passage I posted earlier said? If anything, that just reduces bandwidth requirements further, I don't see why this is a sticking point. Again, you can install more level 0 skills, they just start requiring...

It doesn't change the skill. Just the bandwidth it consumes.

I was mainly referring to the 'or list (all)' bit. That is what we're worried about, right? Besides, I think we misread the CRB on this. Refer to that passage about specialties I posted - it refers to Engineer 0 as a skill you can have. Not Engineer (M-Drive) 0, just Engineer.

Without a source, I can't really take that as gospel. Besides, this passage contradicts that.

You know you can overspend on skill 0, right? It just starts costing 1 Bandwidth - so, an additional 8 Bandwidth. Which would still leave you 2 Bandwidth in the black. Also, the Science skills were raised to 1 - but since that's covered by the aforementioned additional bandwidth, it doesn't...