Variable Power Pool?

[psychoph]

I am trying to make the variable power pool on page 159 of the Ultimate Vehicles Guide. It is the common sensors and communication power pool.

When i create the vpp it looks like
<table>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top">&#160;&#160;</td><td>Sensors and Communcation Systems&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">45&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Sensors and Communication Systems: </i></b>Variable Power Pool (Gadget Pool), 40 base + 5 control cost (60 Active Points); Only for Senses and Communications (-1 1/4), OIF Bulky (-1), Costs Endurance Costs END Every Phase (-1/2)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">6</td></tr></table>

My issue is that the control is not coming out to 20 like stated in the book, but 5. The other thing is that there is 60 active points instead of 45, which leads me to beleive that the program knows about hte 20 but just isn't showing it. I am not sure if I am doing somehting wrong or not so i am attaching the file as well.

[Lightray]

That is the same as the sensor pool from UV. You're just getting confused by the differences between how UV writes out the power and how HD displays it.

When UV says "40 base + 20 control cost" that's Active Points. UV only lists the real points under the "Cost" column.

When HD shows "40 base + 5 control cost" that's Real Points, HD shows the Active Points parenthetically.

I do get a 1-pt. roundoff error between UV (46 pts.) and HD (45 pts.). But that's trivial.

If you want to make HD display exactly like UV, I'm afraid you'll need to modify export templates. Look in the documentation for that.

[Simon]

The rounding isn't an error....it's a known difference between how Steve rounds for publications and how he has stated characters should round.

Specifically: publications look to 2 decimal places. Steve has stated that, when building a character, you should only look to 1 decimal place when rounding. HD looks to the first decimal place for its rounding.

[psychoph]

thanks for the quick responses. THat helps tremendously.