Make contact skill great again.

[Alonsua]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

As the wording of the advantage explains, the Effective Skill is a combination of the contact's inherent actual skill level, plus bonuses from the equipment and resources available to them in their organisation- thus Effective Skill already contains an implicit, unspecified equipment bonus and helper bonus.

Thats why I am showing concern. Per the rules you can allow an equipment bonus of +4 by TL8 and complementary rolls for up to +6, which turns an effective skill of 21 into a personal skill of 11.

Is 11 the highest skill score possible, and the more resources an organization has the more useless its best employees tend to be?

If you count equipment and helper bonuses as summed up, a personal skill of 17 would require an equivalent Contact of 27 by TL8 making the formula to calculate max effective skill for a contact (maximum skill ALLOWED +6 + TL/2).