 Making a deck, for the old school |
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  Aug 27 2008, 04:18 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 663 Joined: 30-June 06 From: Memphis, TN Member No.: 8,811  |
Trying to figure out how hard it is to make a Deck, like the 3rd Ed. deckers. Trying to make an old school hacker with a combat deck build into his cyberarm, but all I can think of is to drop the signal to 0 and just use comlink stats. Mechanically it would work the same for hacking (with the exception of having to splice in a wire or connect with a headjack.)
As anyone else tried this type of restating old tech and cyber successfully? |
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Aug 27 2008, 04:24 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,253 Joined: 31-December 06 Member No.: 10,502 |
Just use the SR4 mechanics without the wireless. Easy.
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Aug 27 2008, 04:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 343 Joined: 30-January 06 Member No.: 8,212 |
The only actual rating the deck itself would have is response. Since firewall and system are software.
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Aug 27 2008, 04:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 663 Joined: 30-June 06 From: Memphis, TN Member No.: 8,811 |
QUOTE (jago668 @ Aug 27 2008, 12:32 PM)  The only actual rating the deck itself would have is response. Since firewall and system are software. I guess the question is how to map the response to the rating. Maybe Rating/2 as the response. That Artic deck is now only chill. |
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Aug 28 2008, 05:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 992 Joined: 2-August 06 Member No.: 9,006 |
You know...basicly, there is no difference between a Cyberdeck and a com-link. A cyberdeck is just a big commlink, and a cyber-arm deck is about the same size as a cyber-arm commlink. Only mechanical difference is: a Cyberdeck would not be able to use Wireless, and would not be able to be your PAN...so you would still need a Commlink, anyway....
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Aug 28 2008, 08:47 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
I think you can fit about 3 to 5 commlinks in a single cyberdeck case. So I guess you could get a nexi inside a deck.
But if that's just a vintage 2065 bleeding-edge deck, it'll probably be close to a rating 3 commlink, at best. |
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Aug 28 2008, 10:30 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hows this:
cyberdeck = laptop comlink = blackberry with the computing power laptop above |
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Aug 28 2008, 07:44 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Hey, Ancient History, I think we got a solution to your "Cold Dead Hands" issue!
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Aug 28 2008, 07:50 PM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
Go for the cyberlimbs, aka "Cold Deck Hands".
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