Racial Army Gear

[Skarg]

Originally Posted by hcobb

ITL p58: Army/police officer Above, plus Strategist, Engineer, Diplomacy – or 5 years as sergeant

I.e. five years of job exp should make them equally qualified.

Five years at 500 XP per year = 2.5k XP or five skill points.

Diplomacy (1) + Strategist (2) + Engineer (2) = five skill points.

All the other examples I've studied also work within the limit of 10 XP per job roll.

1) I read "or five years as sergeant" as an indication that you can get promoted after five years as sergeant, regardless of whether your abilities went up, down, or sideways during that time. That would certainly match many real-world organization promotion policies.

So what this also implies to me is the opposite, i.e. "You need 5 years as sergeant to get promoted to this job, UNLESS you happen to have Strategist, Engineer, and Diplomacy already!"


2) SJ has posted he was never into the economics bits, so this like many of your other posts with conclusions on other economic conclusions seem backwards to me. And you're so ironic/mysterious about them, that I can't tell quite what you mean by them, but it seems like mostly (from your house rule solutions and the way you tend to be pointing out very bizarre conclusions) I feel like you're also at cross-purposes to your own probable intent.

That is, why warp the setting to match obscure implications of the least-well-tested corners of the rules?


3) The job table is only slightly altered from original ITL, which was based on its rules and assumptions, and was weird about the number of talent requirements even then (and qualifications for combat rolls are not determined by wasting excessive points in extra redundant weapon talents, even if they didn't cost XP) and I am sure SJ did not do much/any math anything like what you're suggesting.