Vehicle Stats Definitions
Type: definition of the general purpose. A Blimp, the Concorde, and the Avengers Quinjet are all basically airborne craft, and so are classified as "air" types. Vehicles of the same Type are normally bound by the same general rules regarding control and damage.- Road: designed primarily to be driven on relatively flat surfaces (like roads), and includes most vehicles found in modern cities. Road vehicles suffer penalties for Control and Speed when offroad (like cutting through the park in your luxury limo).
- Off-Road: land vehicles designed to handle broken ground better than road vehicles. Some recreational vehicles and military equipment fall under this category.
- Rail: follow a predetermined path or track; the most common examples are trains. A Railed vehicle that runs off the track has disastrous effects.
- G.E.V.: means Ground Effect Vehicle, which is basically the hovercraft. GEVs exhibit properties of both Air and Off-Road Vehicles, and as such deserve their own entry.
- Air: travel mainly through the friendly skies, and include all forms of aircraft from gliders to the Concorde.
- Space: those which are capable of sustained space travel in orbit or between planets.
- Water: boats of every description. from sailboats to carriers. Their main limitation is the danger of sinking.
- Submersible: designed to travel underwater, and are represented by the submarine. Subs are similar to water vehicles in the danger of sinking.
Cost: represented in the Cost column. It is often possible to buy a used (and therefore unreliable) version for -1CS less than listed (a used sedan costs Ex rather than Rm, and small countries can get their own used battleships for Mn cost).
The other 4 "Statistics" of a vehicle determine how well the vehicle performs under most situations.
Control: is a measure of how well the vehicle responds to moving in different directions and making sudden stops.
Speed: a note of the maximum safe speed of the vehicle.
Body: the amount of damage the vehicle can sustain before a chance exists of system failure (the vehicle breaks down).
Protection: represents the amount of equivalent Body Armor the vehicle provides for those within.