| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Deckers, need new system |
| Date: | Tue Mar 26 06:10:01 2002 |
> A bit off-topic, but incidentally the big 3d floating objects setup in
> Jurassic Park is apparently an actual piece of software. Just found out
> about this the other day, but apparently it's a type of 3d filemanager
> developed originally for IRIX and ported over the Linux now.
I think I've heard about that one, but that's about as far as my knowledge
of it goes :) But weren't they using Macs in JP?
> I wouldn't say any matrix action though. I'd seperate out the more
> illegal and complex activities pretty quickly. Anyone can probably browse
> around inside a datastore, but you'd need a decent decker to get you
> inside or at the very least hand you the proper SR script kiddie tools.
That's the problem with the method I posted: it works well as long as you
have access to everything (like when you're on a DOS/Windows machine, or
logged in as root on a *nix system) but as soon as there are restrictions it
kind of breaks down.
> Personally I think that the access rights are modeled as well as they
> need to. There's your stuff and everyone else's and you won't have access
> to pretty much anything else.
That was the intention, yes.
> >Perhaps one way to do it is combine them with the above: if it's an
> >automatic operation for you, you can either roll to do it in one action,
> > or spend the above-mentioned time on it to do it automatically. If you
> > don't have access to what you're trying to do, you must always spend
> > the time _and_ make a roll at the end of it.
>
> I disagree a bit. If you're under stress or in a hurry it'll take a long
> time to do things you even have access to. When someone is shooting an
> autocannon around you it's going to take a bit more than a few seconds to
> hop on over and update your will. I'd suggest making everyone roll.
True, but that whole thing isn't modelled very well by just about any RPG
rules, including SR's. Realistically, deckers would probably need to spend
longer than regular users to do a lot of stuff, simply because they're
intruding and/or under stress (not to be discovered, not to get hit by the
IC that found them, etc.).
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