From:	ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: My current Haven stuff
Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 1995 01:18:55 -0600

We'll see.....

Oh, by the way, to all the deckers out there: I used to have Maxim's
Matrix REALLY hard to run, a veritable glacier and up there with Fuchi
for overall difficulty. Since Solitaire's demise, this has gone down
everywhere except for three locations: Thier orbital facility(big
surprise...), their research labs(there is only 2 locations on this one
here, and again, not a big surprise) and their corporate HQ in Boulder/
FRFZ. Everywhere else has fallen a lot. None of it's easy, and while I
don't really want people doing a hell of a lot of nasty stuff to Maxim
without clearing it with me first, little BS is no big deal and big BS is
actually atainable now, direct from the source.

Oh, just so you know what one of my ultimate goals for Maxim was/is. Up
until Maxim came around, it seemed that all the corps were was a source
of money that you could frag with whenever a character wanted to. This
isn't the way that SR works in general, at least not in my world. And
since I couldn't exactly run Renraku or someone like that, Maxim became a
way for me to bring back the fear of the corps that we all seem to have
lost for so long. Regardless of how powerful we feel we are, all of our
characters should not be considered above even the ability of the corps
to squash, and it seemed to me that most of our characters do fit that
mode. I hate to say it, but you can't go and romp into, say, Ares and
steal stuff of value and not expect them to not care. If your run is
minor, the corps will write it off as a minor loss too expensive to
alleviate and repair. But if you cause them real harm, you will get
squashed. And that just never seems to happen here, or at least so
rarely that it's nearly a non-event(ewww....thinking in statistics
again. Ick).

Thus Maxim exists. I'm not abhorrent to taking Maxim down a notch or two
if people come up with cool ways to do it. But part of what makes this
list Cyberpunk is the overwhelming presence of corps, and Maxim is here
to make sure that presence is felt a little bit more often....

Besides, I enjoy being evil from time to time. **grin**

Now all I have to do is come up with a couple of character development
runs for when this one is done.....

Brian