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Target  Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 16-February 04 From: Australia Member No.: 6,085  |
I'm creating a new character and I need to type in a LTG #.
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Feb 17 2004, 01:21 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
You don't have to, you know. That page of NSCRG is mostly optional.
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Feb 17 2004, 01:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 20-October 03 Member No.: 5,740 |
What?
Oh. NSCRG. Well. There was a discussion about format a while back. I started it. *Looks* |
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 Feb 17 2004, 01:29 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 16-February 04 From: Australia Member No.: 6,085 |
ok i'll just type in a string of random numbers.
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Feb 17 2004, 01:30 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
i usually use four-three-four. i think that's standard, but i couldn't tell you where i got that pattern from.
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Feb 17 2004, 08:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Par example: NA/UCAS-SEA-226-4077
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Feb 17 2004, 09:15 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 18-March 02 Member No.: 2,411 |
I'd follow the sin that is given in Dunkie's will, imho. The example given there was:
5T2G-8U6V-PK02 So, looks like any combination of letters and number, three sets of four. Using any letter or number 12 times gives 4738381338321616900 different combinations...so I'm guessing it'll be okay for any corp sin, government sin, or anything else issuing sins to issue them in this fassion. :) |
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Feb 17 2004, 09:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Only...we're not talking about SINs.
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Feb 17 2004, 11:30 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I've normally eliminated the '226' part, figuring that the 'SEA' (or CAS, SIO, PCC)prefix covers this. |
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Feb 18 2004, 12:16 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
But that leaves only 10000 combinations for SEA, which is decidedly too few.
~J |
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Feb 18 2004, 01:25 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
That is, however, how SR2 indicates they're formatted. The examples given are all NA/UCAS-SEA-####. And if you think having only 10,000 addresses for SEA is bad, note that Seattle is, by far, the smallest RTG shown. The same system provides only 10,000 LTG addresses for (e.g.) NA/UCAS-NE, which includes Boston, Toronto, Ottawa, Buffalo, Albany, and the rest of the northeastern UCAS... New England, upstate New York, Ontario, and the Maritimes.
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Feb 18 2004, 01:26 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Yeah I know, which is why I eventually changed the way I did it. |
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Feb 18 2004, 05:26 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
*Weep* ~J |
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Feb 18 2004, 05:37 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
4 alphanumeric digits would provide 1,679,616 unique values. Not that I know of any canon support for using alphanumerics for this purpose.
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Feb 18 2004, 05:41 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 16-February 04 From: Australia Member No.: 6,085 |
Currently its something like:
5464-513-4897 That should be good enough :). But thanks alot people. |
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Feb 18 2004, 08:08 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
And that's still not enough to cover Seattle, anyway, even assuming only one Matrix device per person... say nothing about the vast and densely populated stretches of territory described by the RTGs in the UCAS proper. I still think the whole system is fundamentally whack. Using LTG addresses to contact people on the Matrix is like memorizing all your friends' IP addresses so you can IM them. We invented DNS for a reason. Telecom contact info should look more like "voice://doe.jane.m@mktg.sea.ucas.renraku.com", and no one but deckers should give a damn about the LTG addresses involved (which probably look more like "fe80::250:baff:feae:d12a/64" than the pseudo-phone-numbers the book shows). Eh. Pet peeves. One of these days I need to finish my writeup on how to make the Matrix at least vaguely resemble a usable system. :S |
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Feb 18 2004, 08:15 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
heck, i can do that right now, campbell. "start over."
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Feb 18 2004, 08:54 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Good point, though I've ruled that SEA covers all the districts, which have different area codes. Downtown: NA/UCAS-SEA-206 Downtown: NA/UCAS-SEA-2206 Auburn: NA/UCAS-SEA-1206 Belleview: NA/UCAS-SEA-9206 Everett: NA/UCAS-SEA-3206 Ft. Lewis: NA/UCAS-SEA-22206 Puyallup: NA/UCAS-SEA-4206 Redmond: NA/UCAS-SEA-11206 Renton: NA/UCAS-SEA-16206 Snohomish: NA/UCAS-SEA-17206 Tacoma: NA/UCAS-SEA-5206 |
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