Retraining Field Agent Question.

[Amazing Red]

So since Field Agents can't retrain into a school for free, I'm planning on doing it the old fashioned way. I just need a question answered as far as

I start retraining Scenario 1: I have 12 days so I use them all to retrain. Check.
Scenario 2: I have 2 days left to retrain and then I am done. So since I am no longer a field agent, do I only have 6 days left or do I get another 12 days since I started downtime as a field agent?

[Gary Bush]

I would say, and this is just my opinion, that you started downtime as field commission agent. If after 2 days, you graduate the intense coursework, and are now member of a school, you would have 8 more days of downtime. The other two days would lost.

[NielsenE]

When I went the other direction:
8 Days on the first chronicle
6 days on the next, 2 days left. People thought those two days should get the 50% bonus -- 3 days.

Following that same theory:
12 days on the first chronicle
2 days on the second which are equal to 1.33 non-field commissioned days. Probably treated as 2 days since you can't spend fractional downtime. Leaving you with 6 days to spend as a regular agent.

It ends up with the your 6 days possible answer, but for a different reason I think than you were using.

[Gary Bush]

It is a corner case.

And really, not that big of a deal. If a player proposed what you have, I would agree and sign off on it. If they asked me, as a GM, how to handle I would give my answer and sign off on it.

2 days of earned income is basically what we are talking about.

[Jared Thaler - Personal Opinion]

I have no strong opinions. And I am on vacation and too lazy to look up in the guide.

But I would go look at the part of retraining in the Guide that talks about retraining class features, and where in the process you loose access to the abilities of the feature you are training out of. That *should* give you the answer.

[Gary Bush]

Ok so this is what the guide says in that area (if I have the right area of course):

Quote:

An option being retained is lost at the time the new option becomes usable.

So the option of going from Field Commission to School trained would occur on day 3 of downtime (in the example given). On that day, the character would have only 8 days of downtime, of which 2 have been used for training. Leaving 6 days for another downtime activity.

So what Eric said above seems to be the correct answer.

[Amazing Red]

Thanks all for the help. I'm going to play said character twice this week so I now know what to do.