Order of Modifiers to Speed

[dmcgee1]

In what order are Speed Modifiers calculated?

ex.: A Speed 10 ship takes a Critical hit, reducing its speed by 2. Its new speed is 8. The ship is subsequently Crippled. Is its new speed 4 or 3? In other words, is the Crippled penalty applied to the original speed, or to the current, modified speed?

If the Critical is repaired, the ship's new speed would be, technically, 5, as it cannot repair being Crippled, therefore, half of 10 would be 5. However, repairing the -2 Speed from the Critical Hit if the calculated speed was 4 would mean that the new sped would be 6.

 

[LaranosTZ]

Order on speed modifiers (or any modifiers for that matter) is old school arithmetic style.

Multiply/Divide/Add/Subtract

So, a sp 10 ship that is crippled, with a -2 speed modifier is Speed 3.

10\2 - 2 = 3

 

[dmcgee1]

Works for me - is this how all do it?

 

[Court Jester]

Yup... I'm sure it is in the rules somewhere... you multiply and divide before you add or subtract.

 

[Greg Smith]

Under the description of crippled, page 9.