Blue Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 I've got to decide how strongly to build some powers of a character. What I can't decide is just how many levels of success you'd have to get in Mind Control with the "Machine" class of minds, to convince a computer to just freeze and do nothing. How many to shut down? It's hard to judge what a computer "wouldn't mind" doing. I figure that it gets it's "recovery" roll whenever someone uses their computer skills to try and prod it in the right direction (as well as the normal places--like immediately after the mind control succeeds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farik Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 As a rule of thumb if the computer doesn't have an EGO I substitute INT since it generally seems to reflect the complexity of the computer which is otherwise open to command. The big question is do you buil;d computers with Mental defense to repel machine mind control and give a bonus to resist "hacking" rolls or do you give the computer a Mental defense boost if it makes a sucessful computer programming roll (defined as security programs)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Re: The "Machine" class of minds Originally posted by Blue I've got to decide how strongly to build some powers of a character. What I can't decide is just how many levels of success you'd have to get in Mind Control with the "Machine" class of minds, to convince a computer to just freeze and do nothing. How many to shut down? It's hard to judge what a computer "wouldn't mind" doing. I figure that it gets it's "recovery" roll whenever someone uses their computer skills to try and prod it in the right direction (as well as the normal places--like immediately after the mind control succeeds). If the computer's running on Windows, freezing is the baseline state. It really don't want to do anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Without further input regarding a baseline for how many levels of success I need to convince an electronic device to do simple tasks (like pause or turn off), I think I'll have to decide this based on what the computer is designed for. I mean, if it's the Air Traffic Control System that is never meant to go down at any time I'll have to assume it absolutely doesn't want to. If it a file server it's likely a level below that. A common PC is probably a level below that. I think you see what I'm getting at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Sounds like L.Marcus is either a Mac user or someone with a bad Windows computer.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireg0lem Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 (Warning: I am NOT a computer genius) For nonsentient computers, I'd base it on what it was designed to do. For a PC that doesn't really have any particular function that it was made to do; I'd say +0 for something they normally do "run X program," or "turn off," +10 for something it would not normally do, but is not protected against, like "run no programs" or "don't display the mouse," +20 for things it is protected against, but still does sometimes by accident, such as "freeze up," and +30 for something it is made specifically not to do, or override things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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