So, your argument is that if you remote control a Lynx you have to use Agility, but if you remote control a dodge scooter with a weapon mount you can use Logic, because one is a drone and the other a vehicle?
You use Reaction for controlling both the vehicle and the drone...
...and to fire mounted weapons you use Agility (as Agility is the linked attribute for Gunnery).
Exception 1: Vehicle-mounted weapons are fired using Logic for remote operated systems.
Exception 2: In passive targeting the attacker rolls Gunnery + Logic [Sensor].
The control device example is one of the many SR5 example texts that are just badly edited.
This might or might not be true.
It is clear that vehicle-mounted weapons are fired using Logic for remote operated systems. If the control device example had said Gunnery + Logic then it would be clear that drones use Logic as well, but it doesn't.
Either the example is wrong and there is no difference between vehicle-mounted gunnery and drone-mounted gunnery (= both always use Logic)
Or the example is correct and there is a difference between vehicle-mounted gunnery and drone-mounted gunnery (= drones use Agility except for sensor targeting)
And it clearly speaks about the AR case where you ...
Unless otherwise specified you would use the same skill, attribute and limit for manual, AR, cold- or hot-sim VR or VR while jumped in.
Which means you can only aim by using sensors ...
Not sure I fully understand the reasoning why you
must use sensor targeting from cold- or hot-sim VR and while jumped in. Did you find any examples or rules to support this?
Isn't Gunnery + Logic [Accuracy] (from p. 183) a valid option while in VR?
(Not saying you are wrong, I am genuinely curious)
Your whole argument is based on a rules text that isn't even about that specific topic and also leaves a whole lot of room for interpretation.
My whole argument is that this is the only reading where none of the existing examples and rules conflict. I am the first to admit that if one or more of the examples or rules are changed then my whole argument will fall.
The lock on thing I assume what you are referring to?
I was thinking about the rules text;
SR5 p. 184 Passive Targeting
In passive targeting, the vehicle’s Sensor attribute substitutes for the Accuracy of the weapon as the advanced targeting system makes up for any flaws in the weapon design. The attacker rolls Gunnery + Logic [Sensor]. The target’s Signature modifiers are also applied as a dice pool modifier.Isn't it just simpler to assume the example is wrong?
It sure is, but since we asked for errata, clarification or SRM ruling without any response for the last 5 years or so I will go ahead and assume that rules and examples are indeed correct and that we are just reading it wrong.
So far I only found one reading where rules and examples doesn't conflict (which I described in my posts above). Most other readings assume that the control device example is not correct...