In HQ1, all NPCs are given specific individual ratings—HQ1 is much closer to a simulationist system than HQ2 and later. E.g., sample resistances list things like "Green Age fighter: 10W3", and a specific NPC in a GM's notes might list a similarly specific rating.
Having room on the NPC sheet for a rating like this would be useful to GMs running HQ1 or who keep that style of setting resistances, rather than using the Base + Resistance Level method of later editions. Since it's a relatively trivial thing to add a convenient field (especially if hidden behind a system setting to activate a house rule), it would be very useful at low cost to implement.
(Bonus, it lays groundwork for a possible future feature allowing contest Resistance to be read out of a targeted NPC token's data.)
In HQ1, all NPCs are given specific individual ratings—HQ1 is much closer to a simulationist system than HQ2 and later. E.g., sample resistances list things like "Green Age fighter: 10W3", and a specific NPC in a GM's notes might list a similarly specific rating.
Having room on the NPC sheet for a rating like this would be useful to GMs running HQ1 or who keep that style of setting resistances, rather than using the Base + Resistance Level method of later editions. Since it's a relatively trivial thing to add a convenient field (especially if hidden behind a system setting to activate a house rule), it would be very useful at low cost to implement.
(Bonus, it lays groundwork for a possible future feature allowing contest Resistance to be read out of a targeted NPC token's data.)