| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Permits for guns & decks |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:09:36 +0100 |
> How're people running legal sales of arms in the 2050ties? Is a
> low-rating credstick check all that's required, or does one have to bring
> additional evidence of peaceful behaviour?
In my campaign, you need a permit. With the permit goes a background
check, and once you own the permit you can buy the weapon you bought the
permit for in the first place.
For example, you want to buy a Predator (I can't really see why, but let's
say you do :). You go to the place they give out the permits, and say "Hi
there. I'd like a permit for an Ares Predator pistol." Your background
gets checked, and if all is well you can come get your permit a few days
later. Armed with that, you go to the gun shop and show the permit, saying
"I'd like to buy a Predator." Only then will they sell one to you.
But this isn't something any players of mine have bothered with. They go
more like "I'll phone my fixer, ask if he can get me a Predator."
> BTW, sales of cyberdecks. As these are very potentially hacking equipment
> - they're not computers in the usual sense AFAIK - I've made sales an
> organisation possibility, not an individual one. This also restricts
> player access to gold :)
VR2.0 notes that legal cyberdecks only have Bod and Sensor chips. "Combat"
decks also have Masking, and illegal decks have Evasion chips installed.
So buying a deck with only Bod and Sensors is cool, seeing that these
decks will in 99% of all cases not even have the possibility of mounting
Evasion and Masking chips, and so are quite unsuitable for hacking into
systems with.
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