1. When does a pedestrian take up one space in a vehicle, and when does he take up two? Please state all situations that may occur.
2.When you set off a top or underbody mounted paint discharger, what's the effect (if any) on the vehicle?
3. Do flame cloud dischargers exist?
4. Can unlike dischargers be linked?
-Fredrik Engel, BJUV, Sweden

1. Pedestrians take up 1 space when they're passengers. When peds are crewmembers (i.e., driver or gunner), they take up 2 spaces. Passengers on buses, mini-buses and other dedicated people haulers take up 2 spaces.
2. Bottom-mounted, none. Top-mounted, the vehicle will suffer the full effects.
3. Yes.
4. Sure.
-CAO

1. Can a targeting laser be mounted on a rocket platform?
2. When using component armor to protect the crew of a vehicle, can each crew member have his own CA, or do you have to CA the crew as a whole?
3. When you have composite metal/plastic armor on the front of the car, a ramplate has to take the entire front armor into consideration, right?
4. Can a ramplate be mounted in positions other than the front?
5. Can a tripod LL be plugged into a car's engine/power plant or laser battery for power? How about the laser rifle?
6. Do racing bodies take double damage in collisions?
Ron Harwood
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1. Yes.
2. Either way is fine.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. No on both counts.
6. Yes.
-CAO

1. Can a boat use a ramplate?
2. Can component armor be component-armored?
3. If a weapon is fired and missed, would the target know what weapon it was? Would other duellists know?
-Tony Tam Fridley, MN

1. Yes.
2. No. Nice try, though.
3. Yes. Yes.
-DNS

How much gas does an engine use when idling?
-Matt Sullins Fredericksburg, VA

1 gallon every 10 minutes or so.
-DNS

1. Can you fire at the ground and still get the +4 to hit bonus? Many duellists do it in order to get peds with burst-effect weapons. What happens when you miss?
2. I thought SAM meant "surface to air." How can it be on a helicopter or microplane? What does it lock on to (heat or radar)?
3. Will there be a GURPS Autoduel second edition?
4. Can body armor be made fireproof?
5. Does it still take a second of hang time if you're throwing/shooting a grenade really close to you? Say, less than 2" from you?
-Tim Jacques Bellevue, NE

1. Not any more. If you're trying to hit a fast-moving target, with burst effect, take his speed mods into account and use the grenade-scatter rules to determine the locus of the burst effect.
2. The SAM really doesn't care if the vehicle firing it is on the ground or not - and I have difficulties imagining a missile guidance system that would require that it be fired from ground level for any reason. As for how it tracks, see The State of The Art, 2039 for more information.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. In game terms, yes. If you want to play it differently, no problem.
-CAO

In ADQ 6/4 I noticed something. The Arenawatch featured two arenas, and in the description of the Tri-City Off-Road Arena, it said there are three special events featured there, yet only two were listed. Is this a typo? Or did you forget to include the third?
-Todd White Batavia, IL

The third one is a secret. -DNS

1. What happened at the end of Challenge Night (ADQ 7/1)?
2. I recall, a while back, that you folks were talking about armored fighting vehicles. Were the rules ever published? If so, can I get a copy of them?
-Randall Bakker Norco, CA

1. I ain't tellin'.
2. No, they weren't We still might get around to them, though.
-DNS

1. Under the new weapon declaration tules, how would you declare a searchlight?
2. When a boat fills with water, are the chances the same for electric power plants or gas engines to cease operation?
3. Under the new damage allocation rules, is the lift fan treated as cargo, power plant, or a separate component?
-John Seaton Kansas City, MO

1. A large-bore illumination device.
2. Yes.
3. A separate component.
-DNS