| From: | mikepaff@***.rr.com (Michael Paff) |
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| Subject: | Consoles in Shadowrun |
| Date: | Wed, 21 May 2003 13:15:16 -0700 |
>At 11:36 AM 5/21/2003 -0700, Augustus wrote:
>
>>But for whatever reason (magical, financial, ethical, moral, religious, etc)
>>not everybody has a datajack...
>
>I would guess that the vast majority of people have datajacks. They are
>relatively cheap and give an employee such an advantage (or an employee
>without one is at such a disadvantage) that it would seem to me that
>almost everyone in the middle class income bracket would have one. The
>lower/poor income class would probably also have datajacks if nothing else
>than to watch simsense and/or enable chip addiction. I could easily see
>chip dealers practically giving away datajack installations in order to
>get new customers (the first one is always free neh?).
I remember there being mention of electrode ('trode) rigs being mentioned
in some of the Shadowrun novels. They may even have been mentioned in the
flavor text of the sourcebooks, but I don't recall any official rules for
them anywhere.
I would guess that they would perform most of the functions of a datajack,
but at a reduced price and reduced 'effectiveness', but good enough for
basic simsense functions.
Mike
