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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9724066" data-attributes="member: 907">This might be a matter of taste, but I think their games rely a little too heavily on their various push mechanics. I remember having a discussion over on a Swedish RPG forum about probabilities and how even someone with fairly high stat+skill would often fail, particularly on things requiring multiple successes (I think the discussion may have been based on the MYZ Gearhead's class skill, where you need two or more successes in order to build a thing that lasts for more than one use). At some point one of the designers chimed in that the probabilities looked a lot better if you included pushing, because they pretty much assume that that's a thing you'll be doing a lot.I also mentioned in another thread here recently that only succeeding on a 6 does some wonky things with probabilities, in that it becomes very swingy. This was especially notable when we were playing Coriolis and someone was wearing armor. Heavy armor (the best without getting into advanced tech) has an armor rating of 6 which sounds impressive... until you realize that it means a 1/3 chance of being as effective as goggles (i.e. doing nothing).</blockquote>