Education during character generation

[dalthor]

Want to start a scholar by doing 8 years in University for a PhD in Engineering.

Assume I pass all 8 terms, and get 8 levels in my major (Engineering) and 4 in my minor (Designer) as indicated in the book.

The SKILL Engineering has 4 disciplines (called knowledge): J-drive, M-drive, power systems, and life support.

If I read page 144 correctly, my first 2 years give me knowledge in a discipline, the 3rd a level in the skill, the 4th and 5th a knowledge level, the 6th a skill level, and the 7th and 8th years give knowledge levels. That means at the end of eight years, I have 2 skill levels in Engineering, and 6 knowledge levels to spread among the 4 disciplines.

For example, I could allocate as below, 2 skill levels, and the remaining six spread among the specific disciplines --

Major: Engineering-2
- J-drive-3
- M-drive-1
- Power-1
- Life support-1

Major skill "stacks" with each individual skill, so I have the equivalent of
J-drive-5, M-drive-3, Power systems-3, and Life-support-3

The above does NOT seem right to me...

OR SHOULD IT LOOK LIKE THIS, which makes more sense, and fits better with the way skills are described?

The errata for page 145 makes it sound like the second version would be correct --

Major: Engineering-8 (8 years of engineering experience)
- J-drive-4 (4 years in j-drive experience)
- M-drive-2 (2 years m-drive experience)
- Power-1 (1 year learning power systems)
- Life support-1 (1 year learning life support)

and therefore J-drive-12, m-drive-10, power systems-10, and life-support-10, which is in agreement with the page 145 errata.

Can somebody please help clarify this for me?

 

[Daddicus]

The way I read the table, the first 2 are knowledges, and then all others are skills. So, it would go:

1st: J-Drive-1, Engineer nothing
2nd: J-Drive-2, Engineer nothing
3rd: J-Drive-2, Engineer-1
4th: J-Drive-2, Engineer-2
5th: J-Drive-2, Engineer-3

6th and later all add directly to Engineer. So, after 8 years, you would have J-Drive-2 and Engineer-6.

Effectively, you would have J-Drive-8 because they stack, and all other Engineering knowledges-6.

 

[pendragonman]

Daddicus's interpretation is mine as well.

 

[dalthor]

Thanks, that helped a LOT!

Next, with regard to honors, graduating with honors confers +1 to your major.

Changing schools should NOT allow new honors each school, as this would allow CRAZY abuse of the system. Change school YEARLY, and honors YEARLY? I don't think so.

1) Is each degree level (i.e. Bachelors, Masters, and PhD) allowed a separate honors roll?
2) Can you graduate with honors from flight school?

Example:

Naval academy for 4 years, grad with honors
Flight school (maybe graduate with honors???)
University for Masters, grad with honors
University for Phd, grad with honors

Just trying to clarify, and thanks!

 

[Daddicus]

#1: I don't believe you can change schools at all, except between college and university (Masters), and between university (Masters) and university (doctorate).

#2: Honors is specified (page 100) as being college or university. The errata makes a correction by adding service academies. There's no mention of honors for medical, law, or flight schools. I guess you're already expected to be an honor-grade student just to get in.