| From: | "Darrin M. Conant" <dconant@****.spectra.net> |
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| Subject: | Reawakening an old idea |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:36:37 -0400 |
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I had an idea of some stuff to do with the net, but I had to drop it because
of RW problems. Is there any interest in this?
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New Expansion for the Matrix
Last updated 3/2/96
Darrin Conant
dconant@*******.net
The purpose of this is to expand the rules regarding the matrix as well as
our knowledge of what exists within it. I'm starting a preliminary outline
for areas that could use expanding to insure that there is some internal
consistency. I haven't come up with any specific rules yet, so don't ask
for them. While this isn't a NERPS project (yet?) I hope others will feel
free to help me work on this for everyone's benefit. I would also like to
say that I do not own every product available for SRII, so I apologise
for my ignorance in some areas.
Please feel free to tell me a section is stupid/unbalancing/missing and why.
I. Purpose
A) to expand the matrix
B) include some "culture" (BBS', games, entertainment, simsense)
with a slant on their usefullness to runners
C) allow other non-deckers to have a use for the matrix
II. Culture
A) Simsense
1) could simsense be used to implant an effect similar to
psychotropic IC? Any good ideas?
2) any other uses?
B) General Information
1)what proportion of info in the matrix is corporate/educational/
personal? (I'm assuming that there exists an internet similar to what
exists today)
a) What proportion of the information is incorrect?
b) Danger of out of date information (and likelihood)
2) research using the matrix (emphasis on personal data/history/
building plans etc. using newspapers and such)
a) The rules in the basic book (pg. 202) can use expansion.
b) Expand the information table to include TN's for:
i) building plans (mostly out of date)
ii) information on your Johnson/target (sometimes
just knowing what corp they are from is usefull)
iii) postings by other runners about target locale
(again out of date)
3) Contacts on the matrix
4) Fixers on the matrix
a) rules for mail order hardware
5) When the corps try to infiltrate the system
a) a nice reversal to the normal run with runners on defense
b) allows GM to steal player's ideas :)
C) The media
D) A bit more info on hacking onto a corps computer to "order" new stuff
(started
in VR 2.0)
III. Expansion to existing matrix rules
A) Improved hitcher jacks that give an enhanced hitcher (EH) limited control
over frames.
1) This will allow a hitcher to make general decisions
regarding the actions of a frame (dumb frames mostly).
a) Should be part of a deck. (not overly expensive)
b) Reduce decker's hacking pool by 1 for every enhanced
hitcher?
c) slow down decker's initiative (how much? 2 per EH?)
d) should hitchers get response increase? (I say no)
e) dumb frame DINAB (doesn't degrade, smaller size)?
f) maybe a relation between DINAB and hacking pool?
(DINAB represents prewritten code, and EH's hacking pool
allows them to make it into programs on the fly, thus
EH's hacking pool can be
1) half normal
2) smaller of hacking and DINAB
3) average of hacking, DINAB
4) nothing
(I'll have to test these options and look for abuses)
2) Hopefully this will provide a non-decker a chance to help
out in the matrix without removing the importance of a true
decker.
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