Skill level per population

[Bren]

Here is the skill table for Star Wars D6. Based on some recent discussion on skills levels for blaster rifle, I thought it might be interesting to tweak some of the population numbers and add the odds for all the categories.

1D Below Human Average
2D Human Average
3D Average Level of Human Training
4D Professional Level of Human Training
5D Above Average Expertise
6D Best in a City/Geographic Area (1:100,000)
7D Best on a Continent (1:10,000,000)
8D Best on a Planet (1:100,000,000)
9D Best in Many Systems (1:1,000,000,000)
10D Best in a Sector
11D Best in a Region
14D+ Best in the Galaxy

Some of the numbers seem a bit off to me, e.g. 6D skill at 1:100,000 seems too high, but best in many systems of only 1:1 billion seems too low. After playing around with the exponents and the odds a bit I came up with the following (details on the pattern follow, but you can ignore it if you don't like math):

1D Below Human Average
2D Human Average (1:1)
3D Average Level of Human Training (1:2)
4D Professional Level of Human Training (1:10)
5D Above Average Expertise (1:100)
6D Best in a City/Geographic Area (1:10,000)
7D Best on a Continent (1:1,000,000)
8D Best on a Planet (1:100,000,000)
9D Best in Many Systems (1:10,000,000,000)
10D Best in a Sector (1:1,000,000,000,000)
11D Best in a Region (1:100,000,000,000,000)
14D+ Best in the Galaxy

Just for fun I compared the new odds to the USA population (roughly 300 million). Here are the number of people in the USA for a given skill level:

_2D 300,000,000
_3D 150,000,000 (roughly the number of drivers)
_4D 30,000,000 (roughly the number of good drivers)
_5D 3,000,000 (the number of very good drivers)
_6D 30,000 (race car drivers or other very skilled professionals)
_7D 300
_8D 3
_9D <1
10D none
11D none
14D none

Thoughts?

Skill Table with Population
_2D 1.0E+00 1
_3D 2.0E+00 2
_4D 1.0E+01 10
_5D 1.0E+02 100
_6D 1.0E+04 10,000
_7D 1.0E+06 1,000,000
_8D 1.0E+08 100,000,000
_9D 1.0E+10 10,000,000,000
10D 1.0E+12 1,000,000,000,000
11D 1.0E+14 100,000,000,000,000
14D 1.0E+16 10,000,000,000,000,000

[JT Swift]

Very nice, and very well thought out.
Though I'm still going to base my NPC skill levels on what would making things challenging for the PCs.
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[Fallon Kell]

That is both handy and dandy. Thanks!
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[garhkal]

Nice breakdown..

I wonder who those _8D 3 would be..
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