Anything resembling a changelog, or should we go line by line through these looking for what's been updated in order to give feedback?

DivineWrath wrote:

I'm here after a quick read of the gear chapter. I'll do a more thorough read later. Skillware wasn't well defined in EP 1st. How quickly can you change your skillsofts? Can you use a skillsoft while swapping skillsofts? Do skillsofts add on top of existing skills? For instance, does using programing 40 when you have Programing 35 count as 5 points or 40 points? Can skillsofts be used at any setting less than max?

As far as I remember, "skillsofts" are the override, so to get Programming 40 you need a skillsoft of Programming 40 that counts as such, with no regards to you having already 35 in Programming (I might be mixing this with how skillsofts worked on Cyberpunk 2020, however). Switching skillsofts should be addressed, since I think the only instance of such I've seen was in the second Takeshi Kovacs book, where one of the soldiers (a woman) carried several skillsoft packages in some sort of USB sticks she would plug as needed... but no mention of how much time does it take (I'd rule an action for the swap, then you get the skill on your next turn, while the removed skill is lost inmediately). As for using the Skillsofts at different levels, if you are talking about buying 3 skills at 40, assuming a total limit of 120, and wondering if you could use the three at 33 or two at 40 and one at 20, I have no idea... I always simply ruled that you could have 3 skillsofts active, and they were limited to 40 (so a slight buff over the official limit on 1st ed, if I remember right), but one had to be a Knowledge/Profession skill, Art not really working well as creative (so you could not get Art: poetry, since you would be like a record of the original's style, but you could get Knowledge: Poetry, which would allow you to judge the quality of a poem for example). [quote=DivineWrath Any rules for making your own ALI? How about modding existing ALIs? [/quote] I'd also ask for forking and psychosurgery, specially of one's Alpha fork. Extra support on the "drone master" kind of build would be appreciated, specially if we can cobble some rules for use with something more easy to place on the game (kinda like using miniatures, even if it's just as representation), let's say I want to place clusters of drones under the command of a Beta fork while the Alpha acts as a general... By that I mean something that lets us resolve the situation without resorting to handwaving it as "it ends as the plot demands". Some extra chapters on infrastructure for establishing a colony (let's call it "do a Minecraft" XD) would be appreciated aswell.

Sorry folks. I replied to the wrong thread.

The table MERGING on page 9 needs fixing.

DivineWrath wrote:

On p. 3, Post-Mortem Uploads, is skill loss really something that should happen? If you have someone's head, you probably have that person's stack as well. Also, can't you put the person in medical stasis using a nanobandage? Actually, looking at it now, can it still do that in EP 2?

I think that only applies to those that don't have a cortical stack. Think of the cortical stack like the hard drive while the brain / cyberbrain is the processor + memory. You don't have a hard drive and suddenly cut off the power, naturally the data would start degrading or even be lost entirely.

DivineWrath wrote:

On p. 3, Post-Mortem Uploads, is skill loss really something that should happen? If you have someone's head, you probably have that person's stack as well. Also, can't you put the person in medical stasis using a nanobandage? Actually, looking at it now, can it still do that in EP 2? I checked and medichines can still put you in medical stasis. Does that protect you from skill loss? There is no mention of rules for putting a recently deceased biomorph head into a ego bridge to retrieve the ego. For instance, when you have an ego bridge but no healing vat.

Expanding on what Ice has said, consider that sometimes the stack has been blown over (not broken... just lost in the clutter), or the morph directly has no stack whatsoever (Jovians, assassins...), etc... So why do you want to do this? Well, simply put, interrogation comes to mind faster than "saving another PC's charsheet". As for the rules for this, I'd treat the head as a normal morph regarding the ego bridge, and rule as ok the nanobandages option for preservation.

I've ran into a brick wall regarding blueprints. There doesn't seem to be any rules for blueprints for gear higher than [Major] Complexity or blueprints for morphs. This matters if you are trying to make a morph yourself, as whether or not you have the blueprints can affect the make time by 5-10 times longer.

Huh? The rules already say that making a synthmorph takes (MP + 1) weeks, Pods (MP +1) months, and biomorphs takes (MP + 6) months. This is before the 5-10 multiplier for no blueprints.

I think that using more fabbers would just allow you to create multiple morphs in parallel, each given fabber job still takes the same time.

o11o1 wrote:

I think that using more fabbers would just allow you to create multiple morphs in parallel, each given fabber job still takes the same time.

I dunno in 2E, but in 1E the advantage of Pods against biomorphs regarding the "building" was precisely that Pods would be "grown" in parts, then stitched together using cyberware to cover for the things that took too much time (like brains and the nervous system). I always translated that to "you have several organs and pieces growing at the same time, balancing the number of each so you finish with a full batch of pods you can process continously", compensating the slower growing organs/pieces with more "printers", so for example you would have five hearts growing at the same time, but only one femur, so when the skeleton was finished you would have a full set of organs to put inside (and muscles and all that), and the next heart would be ready when the next cycle of one each was ready. I think, however, that the building times are too abstract here. It's not the same thing to print a Spare synth than a full Reaper!

o11o1 wrote:

In practice, any firewall agent working this hard to have a bunch of stuff working at once might need more problems thrown at them at one time. (or possibly less and just skip to the end where they have the thing in question).

Bodybank bussiness require more difinition, since they should use something like this.

Beta forks are alphas with selective amnesia. They can do anything Alpha can do and only get stats, memories modified.

DivineWrath wrote:

It looks like you can't resist psychosurgery any more. In EP 1, you resisted with you WIL. Also, you had to resist even if it was for something you wanted (which didn't always make sense). Perhaps its for the best that you can't resist anymore.

There was an Advantage that would grant a +10/level to Pyschosurgery attempts for voluntary alterations... I'm guessing it was too much of a headache for everyone to manage the consequences of psychosurgery your own forks...

Those are the rules for retrieving an ego from a dead morph. If you have the cortical stack, use the cortical stack rules, which don't decay. With the lost skill points, I'm curious if psychosurgery could help with that? I guess merging could do it, though it doesn't explicitly say that.

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Those are the rules for retrieving an ego from a dead morph. If you have the cortical stack, use the cortical stack rules, which don't decay.

Feels like it could use clarification on that point — cortical stack rules if the morph has a stack you can retrieve, "emergency uploading" rules if they don't have a cortical stack. A note in the paragraph to that extend would help clarify things a lot.

How is stress damage handled when merging forks with different experiences? Lets say that one suffered 2 stress for asphyxiation and the other suffered 5 stress for being isolated for 1 week? Do you simply add the stress together? What if they had different experiences of the same situation? Lets say that one fork was severely tortured (1d10+2) while the other was forced to watch it (1d6). Also, is there stress for dying? Its not listed in the chart on p. 39.