Crunch vs. fluff for HT, Resistant, and 'Good immune system'

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

First, now that I think of it, I think I might've described it as 'strong, aggressive' as opposed to just 'strong'. That might've been the cause behind the nervousness.

"Highly efficient" works as well.

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Second, the write-up of J7-S53 from Bioroid Bazaar p. 15-16, combined with a certain section of a playtest text (not found on said page), sort of imprinted the idea of danger of having improved immune systems. Specifically, the write-up notes the template as increasing Disease Resistance to +3 . . . and reducing HT by 3. Sure, it's essentially a design that failed to anticipate some of the nuances of boosting an immune system . . . but it's still not clear at all what the new, better designs changed in order to no longer lose HT from an improved immune system.

Note that that initial design didn't improve the immune system - it tried to do so, and as a result made everything but the immune system worse (the character has the same resistance to disease as he would without the modification). This is probably a case of making the immune system more aggressive at the expense of specificity, probably resulting in some sort of auto-immune disorder. The better designs likely don't trade in specificity (indeed, I'd imagine they improve it) when boosting the immune system.