Telecom numbers, How many digits? |
Telecom numbers, How many digits? |
Aug 18 2005, 09:07 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 26-July 03 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 5,029 |
when a phone call is dialled in Shadowrun, how is represented? By numbers? Do area codes exist? Do telecom systems even work the same way telephone systems do?
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Aug 18 2005, 09:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 404 Joined: 22-June 05 From: Canada eh! Member No.: 7,455 |
I would think they would be more like ipv6 internet addresses.
Phones would be just another integrated application or device. Your telecom would have a physical presence in the matrix, that people can visit or patch through to talk with you. At least that is how I would imagine it ... data is data. |
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Aug 18 2005, 09:49 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
I suppose technically they look like this: NA/UCAS-SEA 5206 (15-1667)
So you can see some mockery of the original phone system simply tacked onto an international one, which is believable in a way, but not as a "people interface". I hypothesize that phone numbers are a bit like webpages in usage. In other words, to call a known contact you pick up the phone and say, "Give me Velocity" and the phone calls you however you've set it up to be called (ie, sent to the mobile first, then telecom, then voice mail or voice mail everything, etc). An unknown would be like a google search, "I'm looking for a Velocity in Montréal," and the phone would list whatever public profiles for "Velocity" located in Montréal. This post has been edited by Kanada Ten: Aug 19 2005, 01:02 AM |
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Aug 18 2005, 10:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 807 Joined: 9-October 04 Member No.: 6,741 |
And, for those with bad memories, they can search by pictures.
Just imagine what happens when you do that and get multiple results... |
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Aug 18 2005, 11:07 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 |
According to SR2, they look like:
NA/UCAS-SEA-2206 So that's: (continent)/(nation)-(optional region)-(four digit LTG #) ... which provides a maximum of 10,000 numbers for areas frequently containing multiple cities with millions of residents, and requires remembering numbers, which the real 'net hasn't required for decades, even since before Shadowrun was created. Personally, I figure they should look something like: telecom://nakamura.susan@hr.sea.renraku.com or voice://elfch1xx0r69@ucasonline.com URLs, email addresses, not (-shudder-) phone numbers. |
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Aug 18 2005, 11:32 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
I'm pretty sure that you have an additional six numbers after that for specific host/person, at least that's what I got from the Seattle Sourcebook. |
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Aug 19 2005, 12:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 26-July 03 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 5,029 |
You guys are great, thanks very much for the info.
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Aug 19 2005, 02:03 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Keep in mind, most telecoms will probably have an automatically updating phone book. So the first time you can put in the number (or likely, if the person has publicly available information, a name and address), then the next time you can simply say 'Dave' or 'Jimmy the Squid' and the telecom will take care of the nitty gritty on your behalf.
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Aug 19 2005, 06:18 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Actually, I like the "NA/UCAS/etc, etc" format over the http one. It looks more futuristic and functional to me (granted, it could use an extra digit here and there). |
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Aug 19 2005, 06:54 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 17-August 05 From: Atlanta, GA Member No.: 7,565 |
Mine tend to look like:
"There's a tridphone number scrawled on the wall above the wreckage. Very shaky handwriting. Underneath it the maniac wrote 'Call me if you want to see your cat again! I'm getting hungry! MWAAHAHAHAAA!' Yes, he spelled that out." It's fairly rare that the actual format of the number matters in game. Every once in a while I'll make some sort of in-game artifact (a newssheet, a corporate memo, etc.) and then this sort of thing matters, but if you start getting too deep it gets hard to be consistent, and you realize that a lot of what FASA defined really wouldn't make sense if implemented in practice. |
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