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Message no. 1
From: valeuj@*****.navy.mil (Valeu, John W. EM3 (AS40 R-3))
Subject: A Question about Job Security
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:39:37 +1000
>Which is rather strange, seeing as how there can only really be a few
>handsful (handfuls? :) of shadowrunners in a city like Seattle, so
>everyone who's done two or three runs should be known to the rest, if only
>by face or name.

How much do you mean by this? Considering how many people are in the 'plex,
percentage wise, how many are runners? Do people run games as their group
is one of, say, 10 or 15 groups? Or is it something like City of Heroes,
were damn near everyone is a runner and there's MANY opportunities for
everyone?
Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: A Question about Job Security
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:05:10 +0200
According to Valeu, John W. EM3 (AS40 R-3), on Sunday 22 August 2004 00:39
the word on the street was...

> How much do you mean by this? Considering how many people are in the
> 'plex, percentage wise, how many are runners?

I can't put any real numbers on based on what's said in SR books, but think
about it realistically: Seattle has an official population of 3 million;
call it anywhere between 4 and 6 million if you count the unofficial
inhabitants. To start with, the extremely vast majority of those have
nothing whatsoever to do with shadowrunners, but in truth that's not
really important anyway.

Perhaps one way to do put numbers on it, is to make an assumption of how
many shadowruns get done per month, and how long each of those runs lasts.
Of course, this depends on your group as well, but let's say that one run
starting every day in a city like Seattle is a good number, and that an
average run lasts three days (some are over in a few hours, others take
weeks, but going by FASA adventures, this seems like a good number, too).
So that means that each group can do ten runs a month if they really
wanted to, meaning three groups are really all it takes to do all the
shadowruns in Seattle. Of course, most groups don't take a run every three
days, so let's say they take one every month -- that still means that 30
groups can do all the Seattle shadowruns.

And given a typical group size of, say, five runners, that puts the whole
Seattle shadowrunner community at 150 runners, plus whatever "supporting
services" they have who are aware of the runners being runners (Johnsons,
fixers, fences, snitches, arms dealers, bartenders, etc.). That will be a
multiple of the number of runners, but even if it's five times as many,
that still puts the whole runner scene at only 900 people. And in a group
of 900 people, everybody is going to at least be aware of the 150 that
it's really all about.

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