Robot Handbook Worksheet Update

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Just to let you all know, Geir has just sent us a revised worksheet for the Robot Handbook - you can grab it on our Downloads page!

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MongooseMatt said:
Just to let you all know, Geir has just sent us a revised worksheet for the Robot Handbook - you can grab it on our Downloads page!

www.mongoosepublishing.com

Free Downloads

Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 Title Notes Download link FAQ & Errata Tweaks and changes to Core Rulebook Update 2022 Download (763 KB) Ship Record Sheet The ship record sheet from Core Rulebook Update 2022 Download (288 KB) 2022 Character Sheet A character sheet for Core Rulebook Update...
www.mongoosepublishing.com www.mongoosepublishing.com
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Geir is just amazing! Thank you, Matt and Geir!
 
I've just sent off an updated (v1.51) Robot spreadsheet for Matt to post when he has a chance.

Thanks to @shammond42 for finding a bug. And then I found another bug while testing the first fix. My fault for lack of proper regression testing first time around. Now I feel like a big software company: "Who needs testers? We've got users."


Every place I've worked, the staff cuts always hit the QA engineers first. Apparently my brain cells work the same way (you guys are such downers, always tell us what we did wrong).

Anyway, hopefully that fixes issues brought in by creating Size 0 robots. But if not, let me know and I'll work to fix them (or any other longstanding unreported bugs. I might hallucinate less than ChatGPT (Or not, how can I tell? Am I even typing now?) but I'm far from perfect, especially at testing my own stuff.)
 
Geir said:
I've just sent off an updated (v1.51) Robot spreadsheet for Matt to post when he has a chance.

Thanks to @shammond42 for finding a bug. And then I found another bug while testing the first fix. My fault for lack of proper regression testing first time around. Now I feel like a big software company: "Who needs testers? We've got users."


Every place I've worked, the staff cuts always hit the QA engineers first. Apparently my brain cells work the same way (you guys are such downers, always tell us what we did wrong).

Anyway, hopefully that fixes issues brought in by creating Size 0 robots. But if not, let me know and I'll work to fix them (or any other longstanding unreported bugs. I might hallucinate less than ChatGPT (Or not, how can I tell? Am I even typing now?) but I'm far from perfect, especially at testing my own stuff.)
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Here's one for you. Fire Control no longer seems to be taking up a slot.
 
Geir said:
Same bug. It looks like the spreadsheet available for download is now version 1.51, which fixes the issue - with the fix all but Fire Control (basic) are 0 Slots for a Size 0 robot, but take 1 slot for anything bigger.
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Found another bug. There's a bad reference in the microbots adjusted skills cells.

Looking at the Blank spreadsheet, the bad reference seems to be pointing at the first manipulator dexterity mod, so while I'm not Excell whiz, I think it is somehow equating to the INT modifier?

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Terry Mixon said:
Found another bug. There's a bad reference in the microbots adjusted skills cells.

Looking at the Blank spreadsheet, the bad reference seems to be pointing at the first manipulator dexterity mod, so while I'm not Excell whiz, I think it is somehow equating to the INT modifier?

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Thanks.

I see what you're say. What happens is that most skills are based on INT, but those that aren't are based on DEX, and I guess I never ran into a microbot with a DEX based skill (and DEX on a full-sized robot is based on the DEX of it's first full-sized manipulator. The #REF should just be the standard TL DEX DM value for microbots.

DEX should be ROUNDUP(TL/2+1,0) which means that at TL8 the DM is -1 and at 15 +1, but otherwise it's 0, so I'm tempted for now to just fix it by assuming 0 for all microbots and replacing #REF with 0. For now. Since it's not triggered for INT-based skills, I don't think this is worth a full upload of a new spreadsheet, but I'll make the change on my development copy and save it for a future release. I'm sure another bug is out there somewhere...
 
Geir said:
Thanks.

I see what you're say. What happens is that most skills are based on INT, but those that aren't are based on DEX, and I guess I never ran into a microbot with a DEX based skill (and DEX on a full-sized robot is based on the DEX of it's first full-sized manipulator. The #REF should just be the standard TL DEX DM value for microbots.

DEX should be ROUNDUP(TL/2+1,0) which means that at TL8 the DM is -1 and at 15 +1, but otherwise it's 0, so I'm tempted for now to just fix it by assuming 0 for all microbots and replacing #REF with 0. For now. Since it's not triggered for INT-based skills, I don't think this is worth a full upload of a new spreadsheet, but I'll make the change on my development copy and save it for a future release. I'm sure another bug is out there somewhere...
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I was trying to give a microbot melee skill with a stinger. That's how I blew it up.
 
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