| From: | Bull bull@*******.net |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Seattle Population problem |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:50:34 -0400 (EDT) |
>>Arcady wrote:
>>>
>>> Seattle 2060's population should be ten times what it's listed at. In
order
>
>>> to get the density of a sprawl.
>>>
>>yup, I said that years ago.
>>At least 10 times
>
>Even better, from 2050 to 2060 the population did not change by one single
person.
>Nor did the economic breakdowns or metahuman percentages. Despite the very
high
>Ork birth rate and earlier maturation.
>
And all those early Ork deaths.
One thing that no one has mentioned yet and I feel has a HUGE impact on the
numbers and stuff is that, simply put, the numbers are the registered,
lawfullly SINned metahumans in the sprawl.
Double those numbers, at least, for the sinless population.
And of course, do those numbers reflect Seattle residents, or everyone
living in Seattle? The corps have Extraterritoritality (Or however the
frag you spell that), so do they report their figures? And of course, are
they accurately reporting their numbers if they do?
Keep in mind that in SR, the most important factor (For us gamers, at
least) is a factor that rarely gets counted: The Shadow population. This
is not to say there are millions of Shadowrunners, but... There are easily
milliions of SINless and homeless out there.
This is the same factor that gets missed when people talk about how common
"Magically Active" characters and NPCs are in a Shadowrun game, compared to
their numbers (1 out of 10,000 people is a FULL Mage or PhysAd), or the
percentage of Metahumans. In the shadows, the averages are seriously skewed.
Bull (Who never bothered with numbers anyways. If it makes sense for the
story, frag the numbers :))
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