Navcopy

This new slicer skill, as its name implies, will copy a navchart that has been loaded into a ship’s navicomp. Now, there’s a restriction here, to prevent random slicer X from obtaining an infinite number of restricted charts.
Either:
a) Limit the number of times a slicer can do this per hour or per day.
b) Arrange it so that slicer X can only make one copy of chart Y from the same ship’s naivcomputer. Period. This won’t stop them from making additional copies from other vessels with the same charts.

kudos for actually suggesting restrictions, but it seems to me (without being a code wizard) that you could exploit this by just changing the ship’s name to recopy over and over. if you can work a way around that, then i’m all on board

There’s got to be some sort of internal function whereby each ship has a unqiue, unchangeable ID. Otherwise ownership/pilot/upgrades/fuel level/etc. would be reset as soon as you rename a ship. Make the limits based on that identifier, and not the name, even though the skill itself would use the name.

I like this idea. It would make slicers alittle more badass. No one takes a slicer seriously in game anyway.

I actually had an idea much like this, although I can’t seem to find it. I’m guessing it was removed due to the similarity to yours. But it was just like this, although there was a downfall. If you failed the skill roll, then you’d get a corrupt navchart. That’d like, mess up your datapad, or screw up the ship systems within it. Actually, that’s a good idea. It’d screw up your navcomputer. Causing glitches throughout the ship. Or something of the sort. But either way I love this idea, this’d make slicers very important, during wars. Infiltrate the Imperial ranks as a rebel, steal their charts and distribute them thoughout the galaxy or something, would be a great addition.

I like this idea and was actually surprised when I first found out about navcharts that this wasn’t already a skill. The problem I see, as Fishy pointed, is abuse. I would definatly want to see this as a top tier skill, so that everyone with a few slicer points on their race don’t automatically get it too.

Indeed. That wouldn’t be good.

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I came up with a bit of extra info to add to the dead topic.

Syntax: Navcopy <navchart>
Requirements: MSTR Datapad, Slicer level 150, a toolkit, and a blank datachip(Or message disk)

Upsides: Can copy any navchart.
Downsides: Extremely hard to master. Failure will result in a corrupt navchart that can shut down the hyperdrive of a ship. Which makes it inoperable until fixed.

Maybe impliment two more skills. One to counter navcopy(Navcomp locked by code like doors) And another option to ship maintenance to repair hyperdrives.

My idea for it: You can only copy ORIGINALS (ie generated by whatever chart mob/thing you have). You can only copy an original x times (3, maybe). So basically, if you manage to get an original chart, you can make 3 duplicates, which are uncopyable. If you get a duplicate, you can install it, but not copy it.

As much as I love this idea, I am hesitant to give level 150 slicer’s another great thing. Why not introduce this more towards level 150 pilots? It seems that once you hit 100, unless you get the feat, you are kinda a master pilot. Why not give something extra to pilots?

Other than that, I totally agree there should be a copy limit to the original. Protecting it, however, does seem a little unnecessary in my opinion.

Yeah, it could fit into piloting. Since pilots would be more likely to be able to interpret navigational data than slicers.

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