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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1492784" data-attributes="member: 259">Hi, David, good to hear from you!  Sorry I took so long to reply -- I've been working on the database, and was hoping to have it in a semifinal form before I posted again, so I could upload it.  Whenever I think I'm done, however, I realize two more things that need to go in--for example, I want to automate the crash checks caused by damage, and I want to add in the calculations for critical successes and failures.   As an aside, now that we've done more than a test chase, the rules are looking better to us, for the following reasons:-Familiarity with the chase rules (gained, for example, by trying to design a database to incorporate them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) does make them run faster.-We were misreading the chart that cross-referenced predator/prey maneuvers, mixing up the predator penalties and prey penalties; when read correctly, they make a lot more sense.-Crashes still look deadly, but it turns out that if you do lower-level chases at slower speeds, they're not as bad as I'd first feared.  Last night, for example, our jeep was pursued by ATV-riding terrorists through the sand dunes of the Egyptian desert; even crashing at 50MPH is pretty survivable for 2nd-level characters. A couple more issues have come up:1) Should hardness subtract from the damage a passenger/driver takes when a vehicle crashes?  I'm tempted to say yes:  a guy in a semi who crashes at 50 MPH is probably going to take less damage than a guy on a motorcycle who makes the same crash. 2) Should maneuvers like Ram and Cut Off be limited by size?  I have a hard time imagining a Hyundai successfully ramming a Coors Truck, and I have a hard time imagining a motorcyle successfully cutting that truck off.  I'm thinking about saying that, as a rule of thumb, you can't ram a vehicle a size category larger than your own, and you can't cut off a vehicle two size categories larger than your own. I'll still be working on the database; anyone interested in seeing it?Daniel</blockquote>

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