Computers, Software and Tech Levels

[ShawnDriscoll]

I really don't use the skill "computer" in my game unless a player wants to actually write new programs. The higher the TL the computer is, the easier to use. >TL 9 you need no skill called "computer" unless you are a coder.

I let the players choose what skills they want to use for programming, fixing (use swap-tronics skill (I kid)), hacking, re-booting (probably no skill), debugging (if that is even done in the far future anymore), networking, data recovering any computer device in Traveller. If they role-play it well, they can use whatever skill. Having knowledge of machine-coding Zilog chips in the '70s is not going to help their Traveller character though. They have to choose from the Mongoose skill list.