Besides the Hacking Task Actions which Task Action do you aplly the 90% timeframe reduction and to which to you grant the 30% timeframe reduction?
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The Instinct Sleight and Task Actions
Tue, 2012-10-02 00:44
#1
maxmcgloin
The Instinct Sleight and Task Actions
Tue, 2012-10-02 20:07
#2
maxmcgloin
No body?
Do you grant the 90% timeframe reduction of the hacking actions?
Wed, 2012-10-03 07:04
#3
Lalande21185
Instinct Sleight
As hacking is an action that involves more than just analysis and planning I wouldn't give it the full 90%. As it does involve analysis/planning, I would give it the 30% reduction.
As to other task actions, all Mental Skill task actions (see p. 176) get the 90% reduction unless they need significant interaction with the world. I would also say that research gets the 30% reduction. Many knowledge skill task actions would also get either the 90% (for example, Academics: xenolinguistics to attempt to translate an alien language) or 30% reduction (for example, Academics: Engineering to figure out how a new weapon works).
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Wed, 2012-10-03 13:19
#4
Limited Reagent
I'm with Lalande. If a task
I'm with Lalande. If a task action is purely mental planning (simple actions are okay, like marking a map), then it gets the 90% reduction. If it requires planning but also significant interaction with the world (like hacking, or electronically bypassing a lock) then it gets the 30% reduction. Task actions that don't require planning or much thought and are tasks just because they take so damn long don't get any reduction.