If the drone is yours, the control is always cooperative and you apply the -2 IF(!) a skill test is required (basic actions often do not require tests). Also, Control Device comes in 2 flavors, cooperative and non-cooperative (Control Device p238). Autopilots should not be affected by the reduced matrix signature, since they are dog brains housed in the drone, taking real world actions (not matrix actions) based on messages they received. In addition, the only matrix actions this drone/device will ever participate in is the Control Device action (remote control) or when Jumped-in. There's definitely some contradiction in the book and a few judgement calls to make, but here's how I'd run it:ġ) Yes, generally speaking I would apply a -2 when using the drone with a matrix action since you only get the -2 penalty when performing matrix actions (Running Silent p235). Sorry about all the questions, and thank you in advance to anyone who trys to answer them for me. Is a drone's sleaze zero, if so is there anyway to increase my die pool to defend against matrix perception. If a Drone is running silent and the RCC is not, do I take -2 to matrix actions? So is there any valid way for me to be better at that test, without slaving my RCC to a Cyberdeck just to gain a sleaze attribute? Would that even work since the cyberdeck has sleaze not the drone? That being said I just went ahead and assumed I have to only roll LOG for that, and any competent hacker will beat my hits no problem. Decks and hosts have all four, including Attack and Sleaze.' So am I correct in assuming I only get Device rating and Firewall at Pilot rating and 0 for the other two? Or do I not even have a sleaze attribute? Does that mean my limit for the test is 0? Something don't sit right about that one.

So on page 269 same exact sentence it says 'all of its Matrix attributes are equal to the Pilot Rating.' But yet again the rules contradict themselves on page 226 'Most devices(including commlinks) have only two Matrix attributes:Data Processing and Firewall. If somebody is rolling a matrix perception to see my drones icons anyway its an opposed test (INT+Computer v.s LOG+Sleaze). On page 234 core book drones falls under the device rating 2 category, but on page 269 it says 'The Device Rating of a drone is the same as its Pilot Rating, meaning all of its Matrix attributes are equal to the Pilot Rating.' So which rule should I follow? So here is the first of many questions, if the drone is running silent but the RCC or Commlink isn't, do I still apply a -2 to my matrix actions? So I figured I need them to run silent a majority of the time so people aren't able to tell that the bug on the wall is actually a drone. All I wanted to do was make a sniper who dabbled into rigging for a couple of MCT-Fly drones. Alright so, I titled this after running silent because that was my original problem.

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