Shadowrunners in simsense in 2070, Random musings Options

[Hagga]

How do implanted sim rigs work? THis is more my own curiosity than anything else - do they transmit to the commlink? Can you have them save the data in implanted memory or that in the datajack?

[The Jake]

How do implanted sim rigs work? THis is more my own curiosity than anything else - do they transmit to the commlink? Can you have them save the data in implanted memory or that in the datajack?

By RAW, simrig just allows for the recording of simsense data only. In theory, any piece of cyber can already wirelessly transmit.

In practise, I would be using the simrig via commlink and/or datajack.

- J.

[The Jake]

Random thought:
Can a simsense star record simsense with just trodes? Or is the implant required? I would imagine that yes you could, but trodes for recording would result in signal degradation....

- J.

[Kanada Ten]

There is an external simrig, but it's not 'trodes. IIRC, it's almost a full getup.

[Oenone]

Costs also play an important role. A latex mask (single use) costs 500 Nuyen. Nanopaste (single use, lasts 24 hours) costs 500 (face) to 1000 nuyen (body) (SR4 p. 330). Spending 1 to 2K on surgery starts to look very attractive given those prices for any task that needs more than a day spent in disguise.

Except according to the description for each of the grades of biosculpting you'd need more than minor biosculpting to actually look like a different person.

Real world celebrities who get plastic surgery in modern terms are probably only getting the same effects as minor biosculpting and they can generally be recognized as the same person (Unless things go horribly wrong).

Which means you'll take some essence loss. Which then brings up the question can you overwrite biosculpting with different biosculpting without losing more essence? (IE Is each use a seperate modification of sorts or does getting a new face first give an essence hole for taking the old face off....?)