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Message no. 1
From: Aaron Jones <aaronj@******.COM>
Subject: Rigger 2 and Remote Control Decks
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:53:59 -0500
I just got Rigger 2 and love it! Things finally started to make
sense...
But...how intrusive is a cranial deck into reality? Can I walk down
the street and have a "window" in my field of view from the roto-drone
overhead? Can I be in a firefight and use my action to give one of my
drones an order? How "out of it" are you while in Captain's Chair mode?

"Weapons? Who needs weapons? I just use vehicles..."

aaronj@******.com
Aaron (Still no SIG file) Jones
Message no. 2
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Rigger 2 and Remote Control Decks
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 18:14:07 EST
In a message dated 97-12-24 17:57:21 EST, aaronj@******.COM writes:

> I just got Rigger 2 and love it! Things finally started to make
> sense...

Just don't say it too loudly, IvyK will come out the closet again...

> But...how intrusive is a cranial deck into reality? Can I walk
down
> the street and have a "window" in my field of view from the roto-drone
> overhead? Can I be in a firefight and use my action to give one of my
> drones an order? How "out of it" are you while in Captain's Chair mode?

There are no major rules concerning this given. I believe that "rigging"
takes as much of your "perceptual concentration" as "decking" does.
My
favorite would be to operate in 'cool mode' using an Encephalon. "Captain's
Chair" mode -might- be possible in this fashion, but I am not certain.

> "Weapons? Who needs weapons? I just use vehicles..."

Very thinking....1 point of karma....just for the fun of it... ;)

-K
Message no. 3
From: "Logan Graves <Fenris>" <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: Rigger 2 and Remote Control Decks
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 09:49:39 -0500
In our last episode, Ereskanti wrote in reply to:
>
> > Aaron's post:
> > But...how intrusive is a cranial deck into reality? Can I walk
> > down the street and have a "window" in my field of view from the
> > roto-drone overhead? Can I be in a firefight and use my action to
> > give one of my drones an order? How "out of it" are you while in
> > Captain's Chair mode?
>
> There are no major rules concerning this given. I believe that
> "rigging" takes as much of your "perceptual concentration" as
> "decking" does. My favorite would be to operate in 'cool mode' using
> an Encephalon. "Captain's Chair" mode -might- be possible in this
> fashion, but I am not certain.

I've often wonder about this too. We play that if the rigger doesn't
have some sort of remote camera or speaker-system to split his
concentration between, he can't really interact with the players in his
vehicle (a comm link counts, too). But I haven't purchased R2, yet.

What does VR2 say about it? Anyone (else) feel brave or daring enough
to 'schlogg' those rules for an answer?

> > "Weapons? Who needs weapons? I just use vehicles..."
>
> Very thinking....1 point of karma....just for the fun of it... ;)

Hmmm, 1 Karma Point. Letsee ;9 That'd be ".9" to Good Karma which
rounds to a "1" and ".1" to the K-Pool which rounds ...

--Fenris (rubbin' a bit of salt)
_______________________________________________logan1@*****.intercom.net
(>) "Seeing as I'm right, and you
disagree, you must be wrong."
(>) --Sgt. Ingram (This was already on my page. Honest!)
Message no. 4
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Rigger 2 and Remote Control Decks
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 16:36:50 EST
In a message dated 97-12-25 09:50:54 EST, logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET writes:

> Hmmm, 1 Karma Point. Letsee ;9 That'd be ".9" to Good Karma which
> rounds to a "1" and ".1" to the K-Pool which rounds ...
>
> --Fenris (rubbin' a bit of salt)
>
Oh, nice touch....here, have anothe bag or two for good measure... ;)

-K
Message no. 5
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Rigger 2 and Remote Control Decks
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 22:15:52 +0100
At 24-Dez-97 wrote Aaron Jones:

> I just got Rigger 2 and love it! Things finally started to make
>sense...
> But...how intrusive is a cranial deck into reality? Can I walk down
>the street and have a "window" in my field of view from the roto-drone
>overhead?

I say yes if:
You have an displaylink to.
Use it only to watch the drones output.
If you have an encephalon too, you could write a program that runs in it,
so you can let the program do some of your commands for you.
example: Survailance prog, When program runs the drone sends you the sensor
data to your deck, displays it with your displaylink.
Simple action to cahnage the drones survailance traget.

Can I be in a firefight and use my action to give one of my
>drones an order?

I say yes.
In direct command mode always, but you get +8 to all other actions, like
the jacked in decker.
If not in anymode, you need to connect first to the drone, so you need more
than one action to give the drone a command.
Or you can use the program thing from above to handle the direct drone control
for you, so that you need only one action to tell the program what you want.

How "out of it" are you while in Captain's Chair mode?

I would go for +6, slightly better than running a direct link to the drone.


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