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Ki_Ryn

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Drone problems

I bought a drone. How to I increase the Pilot rating in Hero Lab? In the rule book I'd just buy a better Pilot program. That option does not appear to be available in Hero Lab.

If using just the core SR4A rule book, a character can buy one Autosoft and share it between all drones (see the Drone Rigger sample character). Hero Lab does not appear to support this - instead requiring every drone to purchase it's own copy of every program.

It sure would be nice to be able to copy or duplicate drones. I wanted four identicaly customized drones and entering the exact same info (and later updates) four times was exactly the sort of tedium I would expect a computer program to let me avoid.

Otherwise Hero Lab is great! I don't think I'd be able to play this character without it.
 
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You can´t copy your software while it is copy-protected. The drone rigger would need Targeting (Automatics) twice for the rotordrones(the Doberman comes with an appropiate Targeting 3 soft). HL is not to blame :)
 
I looked up the HL sample character for the Drone Rigger and see now how to add in a Pilot program. I don't see how the HL sample matches up with the book sample point-wise when the HL sample is buying multiple copies of programs and the book sample only has one of each - but I think I can use the HL sample as a base to create my character.


EDIT: Just noticed an error: The Doberman's don't have their weapon mount included as standard (free) starting gear. Makes the gun kind of useless...
 
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Ki_Ryn said:
EDIT: Just noticed an error: The Doberman's don't have their weapon mount included as standard (free) starting gear. Makes the gun kind of useless...
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Technically weapon mounts don't exist in SR4A, only the limitations on mounts due to body. You need Arsenal for the actual rules on weapon mounts.

As for buying a pilot, go to the Matrix tab, and click where it says 'pilots, agents, IC'
 
Ki_Ryn said:
It sure would be nice to be able to copy or duplicate drones. I wanted four identicaly customized drones and entering the exact same info (and later updates) four times was exactly the sort of tedium I would expect a computer program to let me avoid.
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Definitely something to add to the features requested thread :o)
 
Canis said:
Technically weapon mounts don't exist in SR4A, only the limitations on mounts due to body. You need Arsenal for the actual rules on weapon mounts.
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Canis, there's a simple weapon mount on pg 348 of the core rulebook.

Ki_ryn, do you not own the Arsenal package? - that looks like the circumstance that would produce that error. I'll look into that.
 
Mathias said:
Ki_ryn, do you not own the Arsenal package?
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We're just using the core rulebook and that's all I have installed.


EDIT: As an aside, it seems a little weird that each of my drones (and even my motorcycle!) starts with 1000 nuyen in their Gear section ;)
 
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You mean you don't give your drone's an allowance? What would the Drone & Pilot's activist's groups say, tsk, tsk. :)
 
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You mean you don't give your drone's an allowance? What would the Drone & Pilot's activist's groups say, tsk, tsk. :)
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"Then go sell your weapon mount on the black market, your owner deserves it."

*runs*

(The weapon mount does indeed seem to be tied to the Arsenal pack currently. )
 
The weapon mount was easy enough to work around by adding them for free once I was done with character creation.

At creation I bought a Harly Scorpion and got an error message when I added a rigger adaption. It says it has 1/0 Vehicle Mods now. Since that mod stuff is in Arsenal, this might be another glitch for us core-only folks?
 
Ki_Ryn said:
We're just using the core rulebook and that's all I have installed.


EDIT: As an aside, it seems a little weird that each of my drones (and even my motorcycle!) starts with 1000 nuyen in their Gear section ;)
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Try buying something on one of the drones or on the main hero - do they all go down?

On the Advance tab, if you don't set an amount for the starting cash you rolled, you'll get 1000Y, so I suspect the drones are just displaying the hero's current cash, as they're supposed to.
 
The fate of not being available with the Core Book only is shared:
- by the turret of the Steel Lynx, Ares Citymaster (rules not available in the core book)
- by the weapon mounts of the Morgan Cutclass and Northrup Wasp.
 
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Ki_Ryn said:
It sure would be nice to be able to copy or duplicate drones. I wanted four identicaly customized drones and entering the exact same info (and later updates) four times was exactly the sort of tedium I would expect a computer program to let me avoid.

Otherwise Hero Lab is great! I don't think I'd be able to play this character without it.
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There is a way to do this if you are making multiple, identical drones. You need to create the drone as the top level hero. Once you've built it to your liking, you can go to the Portfolio menu and choose "Duplicate Hero". Currently, Hero Lab won't let you copy a drone if you add it to a hero on the hero's vehicle tab. That's an enhancement that is currently on our list, but we don't have a target release date for it yet.
 
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