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DocWagon bracelets, Ratings and Thresholds

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PiXeL01:
Are there rules anywhere for what device rating a DocWagon bracelet is? Does it depend on level of service? Are they hard to jam?
Also, how wounded does a contract holder need to be before the alarm is triggered?

Tecumseh:
Back in 3rd Edition, DocWagon wrist phones (!) were rating 2 for the purposes of jamming. My 3E jamming rules are long gone at this point, but I believe rating 2 was fairly trivial to jam. (The jammer would be rolling against target number 2, and the defender would only have 2 dice to defend with. Ties would go to the defender though.) In 5E I would probably go with rating 3, but that's just my personal guess.

As for when they trigger, they can either be manually triggered ("help I've fallen and can't get up") or automatically triggered by the biomonitor RFID tag/wristband. The entry for biomonitors says that their wireless functionality allows them to "auto-alert DocWagon or another ambulance service if your life signs reach certain thresholds."

"Certain thresholds" are open to interpretation and your DocWagon user agreement. Does only Physical damage count or does Stun damage count too? What if you have some of each? Perhaps at five boxes of damage - either Stun or Physical - a kindly DocWagon representative proactively reaches out to inquire about your situation, but armed ambulances and fast-response choppers aren't dispatched unless there's no response, or until the condition of contract-holder worsens. I would certainly dispatch assistance by eight or nine boxes of damage.

Stainless Steel Devil Rat:
Chrome Flesh is probably the most up to date source on Doc Wagon methods.  Something along these lines may be explicitly said or maybe could be inferred.

Sphinx:
I'd call a basic DocWagon wristband equivalent to "standard personal electronics" (rating 2), a gold wristband "security device" (rating 3), and a platinum wristband "high-end electronics" (rating 4) on the Device Ratings Table (SR5, p.421)

DocWagon contracts come with a wristband or RFID implant that must be triggered by the user before it signals for help (SR5, p.450). A jammer generates Noise equal to its device rating (SR5, p.441). You need at least a rating 2 jammer to counter a basic DocWagon transmitter, more if the target has any Noise reduction in their PAN (SR5, p.240, p.421).

There's a chapter on DocWagon and similar providers in Chrome Flesh ("Fixing What's Broke," p.26-53). At gold level, a biomonitor in the wristband or RFID chip costs extra (CF, p.31). SR5 puts the cost for a biomonitor at 300 nuyen (p.450). At platinum level, the biomonitor is included (CF, p.31-32). At gold and platinum levels, if a biomonitor detects a problem, the user is prompted to trigger the alert, but it doesn't happen automatically (CF, p.32). At super platinum, the user gets the same prompt, but if the user doesn't respond in 60 seconds, an emergency recovery team gets dispatched automatically (CF, p.32)

Stainless Steel Devil Rat:

--- Quote from: Sphinx on ---I'd call a basic DocWagon wristband equivalent to "standard personal electronics" (rating 2), a gold wristband "security device" (rating 3), and a platinum wristband "high-end electronics" (rating 4) on the Device Ratings Table (SR5, p.421)

DocWagon contracts come with a wristband or RFID implant that must be triggered by the user before it signals for help (SR5, p.450). A jammer generates Noise equal to its device rating (SR5, p.441). You need at least a rating 2 jammer to counter a basic DocWagon transmitter, more if the target has any Noise reduction in their PAN (SR5, p.240, p.421).

There's a chapter on DocWagon and similar providers in Chrome Flesh ("Fixing What's Broke," p.26-53). At gold level, a biomonitor in the wristband or RFID chip costs extra (CF, p.31). SR5 puts the cost for a biomonitor at 300 nuyen (p.450). At platinum level, the biomonitor is included (CF, p.31-32). At gold and platinum levels, if a biomonitor detects a problem, the user is prompted to trigger the alert, but it doesn't happen automatically (CF, p.32). At super platinum, the user gets the same prompt, but if the user doesn't respond in 60 seconds, an emergency recovery team gets dispatched automatically (CF, p.32)

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Quibble:  You need Jamming noise to be higher than the rating of the device you're intending to jam.  Equal rating means the device still works.  That's what's nice about the DR6 Transys Avalon Commlink... very hard to jam as Jammers cap out at 6.  I wouldn't put it out of the question to say the top of the line Doc Wagon bracelets are also DR6.

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