Ship Questions

[sinmaan]

Hello all...

Two quick questions:

1) Ship computer

A ship has a computer rating of 20 and the following programs: auto-repair/2 (rating 20), evade/2 (rating 10), jump control/2 (rating 10), and fire control/4 (rating 20)

Does it mean that he can either use auto-repair, or fire control, or both evade and jump control?

And what is required to change the active programs?




2) Overcharging a thruster

On p.54 of the core book, under the engineering skill entry, it is stated that a M-Drive engineer can "Overcharging a thruster plate to increase a ship’s agility: Intelligence, 1–6 minutes, Difficult (–2)".

What does it do? I haven't seen any other reference to this.

 

[F33D]

Does it mean that he can either use auto-repair, or fire control, or both evade and jump control?

And what is required to change the active programs?

Yes. You just say that you are changing programs.

2) Overcharging a thruster

On p.54 of the core book, under the engineering skill entry, it is stated that a M-Drive engineer can "Overcharging a thruster plate to increase a ship’s agility: Intelligence, 1–6 minutes, Difficult (–2)".

What does it do? I haven't seen any other reference to this.

The editor got sloppy and did a cut & paste from an old Trav edition. It shouldn't be there.

 

[CosmicGamer]

2) Overcharging a thruster
"Overcharging a thruster plate to increase a ship’s agility: Intelligence, 1–6 minutes, Difficult (–2)".

What does it do?

I've always deemed that it increased thrust by one thus it could add to movement or maneuvering during combat. For non combat, I think it could also give a short burst of speed when trying to get somewhere in a hurry, but I don't know how long it should last.