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And that's just for Infantry. Rifts doesn't come close to the number of MOSs or OCCs real life has. Let's not reduce it further. Just about all of those can be covered in one OCC, with maybe 3 MOS specialties; the last 6 or 7 can be reduced systematically to in-game promotions with a few extra skil...

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I hope this is the right place to put this. My apologies if it isn't but I thought Macross fans would like to know. I was at Walmart and I saw a handheld video game console in the checkout isle and decided to splurge for my mom. It was only $9.96. It's called the Arcade Fun Portable Game Console. It...

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I wouldn't say that there aren't any OCCs in Heroes and Aliens Unlimited. They may not be listed but they're available depending on the game. Many Aliens in Aliens Unlimited have available OCCs listed under the Rifts Notes. There's even some Aliens with Hacker OCCs in a Rifter. Also Rifts Conversio...

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Only just noticed this on pg 194 of 1st edition, PB is always 2D6 regardless of what age group. This is a pattern we see for other attributes (only 3D6 seems to be Spd for teens) but it seems odd, why can't you have attractive victims? That's the classic damsel trope. Mine says Most of the Victim p...

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Isn't moonshine unaged whiskey? So if you can make moonshine you can make whiskey. Not according to the RAW skill descriptions. They very expressly say moonshine OK, other spirits not allowed. It also says that wine can't be made either and I think time is the issue. It takes years to age, so wine ...

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I also think Chemistry: Pharmaceutical would be too much. Maybe it'd be okay for someone running a big company but it doesn't feel right for a Moonshiner. That's the intent - to have a distiller in a commercial context - as moonshine is singularly explicitly included in brewing for some reason. Isn...

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I wouldn't say that there aren't any OCCs in Heroes and Aliens Unlimited. They may not be listed but they're available depending on the game. Many Aliens in Aliens Unlimited have available OCCs listed under the Rifts Notes. There's even some Aliens with Hacker OCCs in a Rifter. Also Rifts Conversion...

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I'm wondering if the Cooking skill could be used. It can be a general skill or for specific styles of cooking. Maybe it could be used for distilled spirits? I haven't done it but I presume there's a recipe to follow so Cooking: Distilled Spirits could work. I also think Chemistry: Pharmaceutical wou...

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The Esper's time is spent developing their psionics so they don't have major area of expertise (OCC) skills. Just elective ones. Whether or not a skill comes with the OCC or is an elective depends on where it's listed. It looks like WP Handgun is an elective skill for most OCCs. So most OCCs can cho...

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So, it's not really a future-design, but, if you notice, most of the Macross-Mecha can be interchanged. You can, technically, install a Raider-X's arms on an Excalibur. One of these days, I'm going to have fun with Photoshop. Perhaps that's an idea for another gaming-system like Battletech, where y...

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Sounds like this would be an interesting and fun game.

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Get rid of merc town. Have the people of CS over through corrupt nazi regime. Stop making world books. Start creating new worlds to explore. :-? Don't world books cover new worlds to explore? Would it be fair to say that the attitudes of CS leadership, troopers, and the average "person on the ...

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1. So what if GBs have become a legend and shown that they save people so have mages and cyberknights and angels and dragons and Rogue Scientists and Rogue Scholars and Unicorns but they're all labeled enemies of the state. When the CS is on the list of those bad things that Glitterboys have saved ...

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To add to what I posted earlier. 7) I'd have more nations of D-Bees. Like a Scotland populated by Dwarves and Switzerland by Elves, only they could be all over really. Dwarves in area in Nevada with lots of mines. Elves in the Santa Cruise redwoods. Cyclops on Alcatraz, etc. These nations could be ...

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Re: FQ having GB since always... I'll have to go back and read again. Re: transponder codes... that isn't how they work. The interrogator in one unit sends out signals at 1030MHz requesting data from any transponders in range when a transponder acknowledges it responds at 1090MHz and they start com...

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Mutants in Avalon lists these. Aerial Navigation Instrument Reading Radiation Technology -Industrial Radiation Technology -Medical Oceanography Shipboard Navigation Some might have a more modern name but what's Radiation Technology do? There might also be some more skills. I've got a list of Heroes ...

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true. i think part of that is the fact that "drones" has become a shorthand for the light stuff used so much IRL, like the predator, reaper, Bayraktar, etc. not to mention the little hand launched remote controlled planes and quadrotors things. since we don't really have anything comparab...

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Re: FQ having GB since always... I'll have to go back and read again. Re: transponder codes... that isn't how they work. The interrogator in one unit sends out signals at 1030MHz requesting data from any transponders in range when a transponder acknowledges it responds at 1090MHz and they start com...

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Full color doesn't impress me. I don't mind a few color pages but I prefer the black and white. I am hoping that the original rule list and definitions are included. A number were dropped in the Revised Edition but are still referenced in later TMNT and AtB books. It'd be nice to finally have those ...

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I don't know why people are saying drones weren't used. There's the QF-3000E Ghost drone fighter in Macross and drone Alpha Fighters in New Generation.

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. The point is there are three ways to make new chromium in canon IIRC: FQ, Republicans and NEMA factories. It doesn't say that the flechettes in a GB's BG's Shell are chromium so they could probably be reverse engineered and manufactured elsewhere but in a CS+FQ hates everyone else having GBs they...

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If we're talking pre FQ's GB Legion reveal, sure the CS equated all GBs as enemies of the state and they'd try to annihilate all of them. But I was talking after the reveal and after the CS vs. FQ "war" when they became allies again. The FQ would likely install transponders. The point of ...

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I agree with desrocfc. How the CS reacts is going to depend on the actions of the pilot. That FQ is producing GBs is known. There's nothing to say that they're produced by the Black Market or that anyone even knows about NEMA now. So why would the CS have more concerns about GBs over other PA? SAMA...

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B) is akin to telling the pilot how much fuel and ammo they have left. That doesn't really need an AI. It doesn't need a computer at all really. Agreed, if that is all that is expected of an AI. I have higher expectations of AI - I expect it to get rid of the drudgery, the administrative, and plain...

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I haven't gotten to far into Splicers either. I just remember the AI developed multiple personalities who are trying to kill all the Humans. B) is akin to telling the pilot how much fuel and ammo they have left. That doesn't really need an AI. It doesn't need a computer at all really. But wasn't the...

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What happens if some the pilot or a tech has a cold the AI doesn't recognize their voice? If they have surgery so their face, eyes, or hands are different? How about just gain or loose some weight? They show up in civies instead of uniform? What happens if the CO puts in safety procedures to protec...

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Cool! Those could all add to a spooky game. Thanks!

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I can understand the AI telling the pilot somethings like "Enemy to the rear!" but somethings like ammo count shouldn't require an AI. I also have a hard time believing AIs in a PA or even Robot being intelligent enough to become sentient. It's like after 200 years a calculator becomes al...

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I detune anything new to fall into line with the original rules instead, but an OCC book could be interesting just to have them in one place, or a book/page reference number (even though i have those written down myself) with update changes only being listed Sorry for the threadromancy... Taking a ...

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I know having an AI in his Power Armor worked for Iron Man but I don't think it'd be that good mainstream. I've read of pilots turning off alarms in their fighters because they were too distracting. I would think that on the ground in the frontlines, with all the noise of war and people yelling, an...

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I don't remember it but it's been a while since I read that closely and I don't think I was on the boards then. I do remember Stingers from the comic books though. That maybe why PB didn't use it. I didn't think it was that long ago, but you're right it appears to be from before you joined the boar...

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I know having an AI in his Power Armor worked for Iron Man but I don't think it'd be that good mainstream. I've read of pilots turning off alarms in their fighters because they were too distracting. I would think that on the ground in the frontlines, with all the noise of war and people yelling, an ...

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The Kraken and the Body Armors are similar. The other "power armor" are more like thigh bone connected to hip. The former flows with the human body. The other emulates it's structure but a human can't fit through it. As I've said this is us just going around in circles. Without some "...

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I wasn't referring to the Body Armor. Those are clearly worn. I was referring to the Battloids/Power Armor. I know, however features in the hip-pelvis/shoulder area of the PA suits can also be found in the body armor that I think you are calling out. As I said this is us just going around in circle...

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Basilisk - The Human body can't fit into the limbs. There's no way for the legs to get through the hip joint, nor can the arms fit through the two joints that make up the shoulder. Fenris - A Human's legs can't get through the knee joints and the arms have two separate joints. Kraken - looks like s...

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Since Louie says "power amplified body armor" I would look at all the body armors the ASC corps wear and try to determine which might be power amplified. They could even power amplify all the ASC body armor and it'd be better than forcing animated battloids into being power armor. Top But...

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sorry, brain fart, HG. had been talking with someone about warhammer 40k stuff prior to posting that. and i would reiterate that arguing over whether making some of the less defined mecha from southern cross into power armor instead of large mecha is largely pointless when it comes to the question ...

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the order to recycle the line art game from GW. at the time they were not allowing *any* original mecha to be added to the game. and the ASC stuff didn't have any info other than art, and that was limited. there is almost no preproduction or post-production materials for southern cross, and what li...

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If you're just going by sizes written down on, maybe. I'm looking at the art and a couple, could maybe be helmets but not all of them. I think Battloids were shoved into the role of Power Armor to either go along with the voice over or because someone thought the ASC should have Power Armor but did...

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The problem with that is that it ignores all the prototypes that came before the production model. Those prototypes being the early non-converting motorcycles that share the same parts. There's also a non converting Cyclone Power Armor in the IMAI Files. They've got to get those things right before...

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It's more difficult to requisition something from a separate branch than from your own. To an extent, but I am thinking more from the POV of production contracts and similar where it goes right after production as opposed to after the fact as you seem to be. Or put another way, there is bound to be...

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Maybe? The lowest number I remember seeing for Cyclones is 010. As I was trying to explain the last digit in 010 is (fan) speculated to be a block number for the 01 model. IF that is the case it would go a long way in terms of avoiding the issue of having to come up with 57 iterations of the Cyclon...

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If that was the case, what makes you think Leonard could have stopped the UEEF/REF from draining stockpiles? Somone somewhere in the UEG decided what went where in terms of resource allocation. Leondard wasn't the DeFacto head of the government, in the animation there is some civilian oversight tha...

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Isn't that like saying the Army is the Army? Armies, Divisions, Battalions, Companies and such can have their own names. Why couldn't the ASC be one specific army and the collective nickname for all the UEG forces on Earth? I can see the remaining defenders adopting that name, especially when Leonar...

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Okay, this thought just popped into my head. I don't know if it's been thought of before or not but it's a new idea to me. What if the Army of the Southern Cross was just one army out of several? I don't mean different branches like Army, Navy, Marines. I mean separate armies that are a part of the ...

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The UEEF Marines use of Cyclones start with the 10x series. I think anything before that would have been non-converting and/or a bare bones prototype. It's possible the ASC PA were less complicated and came before the Cyclones but if they did, why didn't the UEEF take some with them? I think you me...

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Given the PB stats for most of them are closer to the battloid size than human, I've been assuming that they are classed as PA due to the controls.. that they have a forcefeedback motion control system frame instead of a fighter style cockpit like battloids and destroids. Think the AMP suit from Av...

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Do you mean like how a magician would cast a spell for dishes to wash themselves as opposed to doing it himself? I'm not sure what you mean here but I do think the Secondary Skills selection is often too limited. OCC Related Skills should be limited to formal training, or a lot of private study, wh...

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Going by the OCCs in the RPG it would seem that UEEF does use some infantry. I would also think the everyone has mecha thing would depend on what time period. I think there'd be more infantry before power armor and cyclones are perfected then after. In 1E, I don't think the REF used conventional in...

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That's cool but does is that canon and does that mean it can be done in the game? I would think it's possible but I would think it'd be awkard to use. The Invasion Comics are still canon AFAIK for HG's current RT, HOWEVER for PB's games they appear to have taken some liberties that make duplication...

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