Tech Chart

The Tech Chart is a chart where you can find all technology usage rules in one place.

• Tech Chart on Google Docs

Instructions for using the chart

General Guidelines

• If using weapons from a white cell you must have gained posted permission from the official faction which represents the owning equipment. Should there be multiple factions any one may be contacted. Ensuring that permission is accurately and posted in a timely fashion is the responsibility of the one using the equipment. Claiming that a faction has not yet updated their information will not save you.

• Player factions may conduct diplomacy with other player factions to open up technology sharing in red cells of the chart. These must be approved as Special Requests prior to implementation. If the player faction represents the entire npc faction, then the technology sharing applies to anyone with the npc faction affiliation, otherwise it only applies to the player faction.

• Technology from factions that are hostile to each other may not be combined. For example, a Mercenary cannot use Bretonian weaponry on a Kusari ship. Also, technology cannot be used if it belongs to a faction that is hostile to your IFF/Tag. For example, a Mercenary with a Bretonian IFF/Tag cannot use any Kusari technology. IDs that are only granted by the Admininstration may allow these hostile combinations, if approved (Terrorist ID, Special Operative ID, etc).

Using the Chart

• To use the chart, choose your ID in one of the rows, and follow the row across to the column that the ship or weapon that you are interested in belongs to.

• If the infocard states that the ship/weapon is not sold outside the faction, then no one without that faction ID may use it.

• To determine which faction a ship or weapon belongs to, first read the infocard of the ship/weapon. If the infocard states the faction owner of the technology, then that may be all you need to know. If the infocard does not state faction ownership, then the technology may be considered to "belong" to the owner of any base where the technology is sold, even if that means it "belongs" to multiple factions. However, technology belonging to factions that are hostile to each other cannot be combined.

• In all cases, characters may purchase and use ships and weapons that are sold on bases that belong to the same faction as their faction ID regardless of color coding.