 Deckers and communications, Finding a better way |
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 Apr 29 2004, 04:05 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 29-January 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 6,039  |
Question to all those that know and breath rules and crunch numbers for breakfast.
Everywhere I look it seems to imply that a decker trying to contact his team outside of the Matrix is taking on huge penalties to do so. What would the benefits of a Cybercomm link be. The text indicates that the Cybercomm translates thoughts into signals, so would a dekcer still be getting penalties for taking to his real-world chummers or would it be negated as there isn't really a need to stop focusing on the Matrix. Thoughs, comments. A better way? -Wolf |
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Apr 29 2004, 04:07 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
External Transducer, or similar system, attached to deck.
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Apr 29 2004, 04:19 PM
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Decker on the Threshold Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 |
Or a Comlink program.
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Apr 29 2004, 05:54 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Well...I believe "speaker" is an optional you can install in a cyberdeck. Just chatter through that.
Or, if you want to be fancy, have an 'agent' work as a cyberdeck secretary, shuttling communications to the rest of the team through whatever means necessary. Commlink to headset radios, cellphones, or the deck's speaker. "Hello? Is this Mr. Bruno, the Street Samurai? Good. Tron v2.0 told me to tell you, 'Alright, I almost have the encryption key for the site's security hacked and...what's that?...oh, crap, Black IC! AHHHH!!!!!' And then he had nothing more to say, so I took that to be the end of his message." |
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Apr 29 2004, 05:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 309 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,548 |
If you can install a speaker, why can't you just plug in a direct radio/cellular line?
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Apr 29 2004, 06:43 PM
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Decker on the Threshold Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 |
You can. You can plug just about any electronics into an FUP: a tranceiver, a pocket secretary, etc etc. The main reason a Comlink program is so expensive is because of all the other things you can do with it besides placing calls: tracing calls, rerouting calls, etc.
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Apr 29 2004, 06:55 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,616 Joined: 15-March 04 Member No.: 6,158 |
Screw Commlink. Just get another datajack, a transducer, and the same communications gear the rest of the team is using. Route it to your other datajack using one of the free ports. As far as I know, you're still free to communicate via it without any penalty whatsoever.
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Apr 29 2004, 07:03 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
It's worth noting that, due to the totally irrational way in which the Matrix handles the concept of "location", it's impossible to make a comcall through your deck while decking into a host, and I'm not sure that you can even make the call beforehand and maintain it while you perform the intrusion.
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