Actions Activities

Operate Device

Source Player Core pg. 196
Requirements You are using a computer or similar device.
You perform a basic task using a digital device, such as operating a basic program or playing a vidgame. You might also use this if the device you're using has a physical component, such as 3D-tracking or requiring specific motions to activate features. The GM determines the DC based on the action you're taking.
Critical SuccessYou excel at what you are doing, learning secrets from the program or advanced functionality. If it's a game, then you win it with record timing based on average completion rates.
SuccessYou manage to operate the device in the necessary manner, including getting basic functionality. You gain general information from the program.
FailureYou can't understand the program or game and take a –2 circumstance penalty to further attempts to access or play it for the next day.
Critical FailureYou fail to access the game or make a mistake that prevents you from accessing the program (such as forgetting a password and locking yourself out of the program) for the next day.

Sample Operate Device Tasks

Untrained check mail, play games, turn device off (and on again)
Trained advanced games, organize corporate mailboxes
Expert highly competitive games, organize servers
Master games at a planetary competitive level, manage large databases
Legendary play games at a galactic competitive level, manage interplanetary networks using Drift beacons