how much of an aid is space google to making skill checks?

[ghostunderasheet]

To gain access to an unsecured internet access in a non-critical situation takes a roll of 10 and since it's in a non-critical situation. you can just take at a 10. If you want taking 20 takes 2 minutes.

Anyways, would you all out bonus for using space Google on some skill checks? Whick skills would you allow the space google-fu bonus?

[Shaudius]

Space Google is covered by letting you take 20 on the check since you have access to a dataset. I wouldn't allow any bonus I would allow the take 20 and have it take the usual take 20 time representing the time it takes you to institute your Google Fu. The bonus you get to the check is your usual skill bonus.

[BigNorseWolf]

The downloaded data sets from pact worlds are space google scholar, let you take 20 and add +4

[Ravingdork]

I'm aware of these rules, but I don't recall where they are. Is there an AoN link and/or page number you can provide for them?

[HammerJack]

They're under the tech items section of Pact Worlds. Page 199.

I assume AoN should have a search function, to get that link.

[ghostunderasheet]

Thanks guys

[The Drunken Dragon]

I'm also playing it that even if you have access to Space Google (Scholar), your existing ranks in it determine your existing knowledge, so you can more efficiently sort the wheat from the chaff, even if you are taking 20. That's just my head-cannon though.

[Metaphysician]

Downloaded data sets are presumably more useful, due to being more specific. Even if theoretically all the data in a standard dataset is found on Space Google, its not a huge leap to assume that a good chunk of the most obscure data? Is practically speaking inaccessible, due to obscurity and the sheer size of the space internet.

Basically, that +4 is from all the "Page 10,000-12,000" search results involving obscure scholarly papers and expert analyses that were only ever posted to bizarre usenets that only still exist via third generation archives.

[ghostunderasheet]

Curses! Should have checked spacewiki first....

[MER-c]

Better than trying to use the space TOR network, I don't even want to think about what kind of hellish addressing system they'd need to account for the possible number of devices, let alone what kind of MAC address system they have in place.

[Metaphysician]

MER-c wrote:

Better than trying to use the space TOR network, I don't even want to think about what kind of hellish addressing system they'd need to account for the possible number of devices, let alone what kind of MAC address system they have in place.

"Oh, hellish is *exactly* what you need to make the system work. . ."

*Asmodeus walks on stage wearing a black turtleneck*