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<blockquote data-quote="HRSegovia" data-source="post: 6043404" data-attributes="member: 99950"><p>The fact that I cannot find this a common issue with an easy answer anywhere else <strong>makes me feel</strong> I may be overlooking something simple, but I cannot (for the life of me) discover what it is. The question concerns maintenance skills versus engineering skills (IE: Mechanics vs Engineering: Mechanics)</p><p></p><p>UNDERSTOOD: Even a master mechanic may not have the knowledge or skills to design and build his own machines (but can fix anything that comes his way and may even improvise some rudimentary designs). The intended use of this skill is fixing vehicles and such, I'm sure.</p><p></p><p>ALSO UNDERSTOOD: A mechanical engineer has the structural and material knowledge to design and build machines (and also use such knowledge to dissect or destroy them). And just as above, I can surmise that the intended use of this skill was ensuring a barricade would hold (or how to demolish other such barricades).</p><p></p><p>THINGS ENTER A GRAY AREA: An engineer is at such a level of knowledge that he should be able to perform maintenance. It is difficult to deny a player (especially one who has an engineering degree in real life) the ability to perform maintenance tasks.</p><p></p><p>IF AN ENGINEER CANNOT PERFORM MAINTENANCE: How, then, can I rationalize to a player that his elite knowledge of a skill does not include lower level knowledge of said skill.</p><p></p><p>IF AN ENGINEER CAN PERFORM MAINTENANCE: What use are the normal maintenance skills such as Electronics, Mechanics, and Civil. Players may as well OP on Engineering skills.</p><p></p><p>Assistance?</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>In rereading this i found a simple grammatical error. Correction is in bold.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HRSegovia, post: 6043404, member: 99950"] The fact that I cannot find this a common issue with an easy answer anywhere else [B]makes me feel[/B] I may be overlooking something simple, but I cannot (for the life of me) discover what it is. The question concerns maintenance skills versus engineering skills (IE: Mechanics vs Engineering: Mechanics) UNDERSTOOD: Even a master mechanic may not have the knowledge or skills to design and build his own machines (but can fix anything that comes his way and may even improvise some rudimentary designs). The intended use of this skill is fixing vehicles and such, I'm sure. ALSO UNDERSTOOD: A mechanical engineer has the structural and material knowledge to design and build machines (and also use such knowledge to dissect or destroy them). And just as above, I can surmise that the intended use of this skill was ensuring a barricade would hold (or how to demolish other such barricades). THINGS ENTER A GRAY AREA: An engineer is at such a level of knowledge that he should be able to perform maintenance. It is difficult to deny a player (especially one who has an engineering degree in real life) the ability to perform maintenance tasks. IF AN ENGINEER CANNOT PERFORM MAINTENANCE: How, then, can I rationalize to a player that his elite knowledge of a skill does not include lower level knowledge of said skill. IF AN ENGINEER CAN PERFORM MAINTENANCE: What use are the normal maintenance skills such as Electronics, Mechanics, and Civil. Players may as well OP on Engineering skills. Assistance? [B]In rereading this i found a simple grammatical error. Correction is in bold.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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