1E Range Concept

[CRMcNeill]

[Chaosmeister]

If the goal is to need multiple rounds of successes, couldn't you achieve the same by simply saying you need one success in the first band, two in the second, three in the third or so? Then the player could try to use multiple actions to drive "recklessly" and get all successes needed in a round without the need to increase the difficulty and leave the normal chase mechanic mostly intact.
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[Raven Redstar]

What about using 2E wound levels as a benchmark in opposed speed code checks?

0-3: No Change
4-8: 1 Range Band
9-12: 2 Range Bands
13-15: 3 Range Bands
16+: 4 Range bands

You could use 1st Edition Wounds if you'd rather. I don't have them on hand.
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[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[Raven Redstar]

Upon further reflection, perhaps multiples of the lower rolled speed craft makes sense for gaining or passing them. So perhaps try using 1st Edition wound scale for how fast a ship is gaining or losing it's pursuer.

[CRMcNeill]

The drawback here is that it doesn't take into account how a craft may still be able to get further away without actually managing to cross into the next range band. Without some sort of modifier to represent a craft that almost makes it to the next range band (and thus lowers the bar to cross into it on future attempts), it runs into the same problem described above.
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[Raven Redstar]

That might just have to be up to GM flavor description. It's an unfortunate side effect when you start going more simple, you may end up having a couple of things that might have to be called on the fly.

What I would likely do is maybe give the ship that ended up almost in the next range band a +5 or +1D bonus to their speed roll on the following round.
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[CRMcNeill]

IMO, what would be most consistent with the RAW is to add an increasing modifier for each Range Band to keep moving the bar higher, but then provide ships a +1D modifier to their Speed Code every time they "win", but not by enough to cross into the next Range Band. Something like:

Point Blank: +0
Short: +10
Medium: +20
Long: +30

So, suppose an A-Wing (6D) is running from a TIE/ln (5D). The chase starts at Short Range, so the pilots roll their respective Speed Codes (Results: 24 for the A-Wing, 15 for the TIE). The A-Wing won, but not by enough to cross into the next Range Band, so the chase continues at Short Range the following round. However, because the A-Wing is pulling away, it receives a +1D bonus to Speed Code on this round (Results: 20 for the A-Wing, 17 for the TIE; low rolls on my dice app for the A-Wing). So, the A-Wing is still at Short Range, but because it won the last two Speed contests, it now receives a +2D bonus to its Speed Code (Results: 28 for the A-Wing, 16 for the TIE). The A-Wing has finally beaten the TIE by more than 10 points, and now finally moves into Medium Range, where the chase continues yet again...

It may take some experimentation to hammer out proper modifiers, but I think this better captures what I suggested above. An alternate version of the chart would be to go by +5 Modifiers, like so:

Point Blank: +5
Short: +10
Medium: +15
Long: +20

And of course, the winner of the Speed Contest may decide whether he wants to close / open the range or stay at the current range.
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[CRMcNeill]

And then, to bring in the concept I posited here, various weapons would have Fire Control modifiers at different Range Bands. For example if one were to use the Laser Cannon as a baseline, its Range Stat would look like so: +0D/+0D/+0D/+0D, while an Ion Cannon with shorter range would have: +0D/+0D/-1D/-2D, and a Blaster Cannon with similarly short range, but better optimized for close-in combat would have +1D/+2/-1D/-2D (dice values are estimated for purposes of example, only).
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[Darklighter79]

Adding penalty to speed dice for dodge / full dodge would also slow down the process of moving to next range band.

Poe/Finn dodge
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[Whill]

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