 New Orleans, How Will You Play With It? |
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 Sep 5 2005, 06:00 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,511  |
Hey all, I just got my SR4 book shipped here overseas (FINALLY!) and started up a group here on base. As we started playing the day after Katrina hit, I decided we would play in New Orleans. And after the levee's had broke, I decided to have it re-built in the style of Venice's architecture.
Neo Orleans is a free city simply because the CAS and Aztlan can't get ahold of it. It's swarming with pirates, black market goods, and very little in the way of legitimate economy. The megacorps enjoy having a large population to draw upon for deniable assets and a testing pool for new cyberware and otehr goods. Runners love to have a haven on the coast and a place to go for all of your running needs. Not to mention a place where you can easily disappear for the right amount of money. In RL, I hope that when they begin reconstruction, they take better engineering precautions to mitigate damage in the future. Now that they know just how vulnerable they are to Mother Nature, it's time to show some respect and play the game smarter. Also, Geraldo is a Journalism adept. |
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Sep 5 2005, 06:02 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I'm not sure it makes sense to have a pirate city on the Mississippi. Carpet-bombing the city into oblivion makes more sense, IMO.
~J |
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Sep 5 2005, 06:05 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Well yeah, but that dosen't adress the Shadowrun aspect of it, though.
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Sep 5 2005, 06:10 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,507 Joined: 27-January 05 From: ...and I'm all out of bubblegum Member No.: 7,021 |
Megacorp owned; NO's value as a port (a lot of bulky stuff probably is still shipped by barge in SR times) would probably have at least a couple of mega's racing in to rebuild the port complex. The rest of the city? Dunno.
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Sep 5 2005, 06:17 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Sure it does. Corps like ports. Corps dislike losing ports. Corps dislike having pirate cities along major shipping rivers even more. Hence, carpet-bombing. ~J |
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Sep 5 2005, 06:20 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Kegentenshi, I think my sarcasm flew over your head.
What I was suggesting was carpet-bombing New Orleans today. :) |
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Sep 5 2005, 06:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 7-December 04 Member No.: 6,873 |
I support it. Let god sort them out.
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Sep 5 2005, 06:25 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Aaaah, I see.
~J |
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Sep 5 2005, 06:27 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Well, we didn't carpet-bomb, but we did drop the 82nd Airborne in.
That's nearly as good. :) |
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Sep 6 2005, 02:30 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
The CAS supported 12,000 combat troops from the UCAS flying through their airspace?
Carpet bombing would porbably reduce the value of the harbor. one good hit on the levee and we're back to August 2005. The corps need the harbor. there is enough coast there for pirates and runners to hide. they would much rather prefer the corps go to the trouble of maintainnig the harbor. MY GUESS is that N.O. in 2065 has more internal levees, so if one of the main ones break, they don't lose the entire city like they did in 2005. Of course this means more wall asnd more security checks. |
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Sep 6 2005, 02:39 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
If there are levees, that means they're losing the city.
~J |
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Sep 6 2005, 03:55 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 17-August 05 From: Atlanta, GA Member No.: 7,565 |
And in this thread, another fallacy so common among gamers... A tendency to forget that the real world is populated by human beings. |
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Sep 6 2005, 04:26 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
And in this post, another fallacy so common to humans... A tendency to believe the lies that real life humans are noble creatures. Arbitrary slaughters are completely human, why the shock when one (or two, or more) admits the desire from behind the shield of partial anonymity? |
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Sep 6 2005, 04:50 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Some people are just outside my monkeysphere.
~J |
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Sep 7 2005, 12:13 AM
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Dumpshock Widow aka Mrs Fisty Group: Members Posts: 2,443 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next to Him Member No.: 6,929 |
Monkeysphere... *snort* hehehehe....
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Sep 7 2005, 01:18 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
There's something so special with this being said by someone going by the login of "Herald of Verjigorm" :evil: |
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Sep 8 2005, 02:41 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
From your mouth to Rummie's ear. Today the pentagon announce 5,000 men of the 82 are being sent into NO. |
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Sep 8 2005, 02:47 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
In addition to the 4,000 already there?
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Sep 8 2005, 06:44 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,511 |
It's times like this that I wish we still had the Lounge around.
Anyway, as far as game terms go, I wanted NO to be a free city-state simply because Seattle and Denver are out in the middle of North America, and I think with all of the different countries around New Orleans in the game's setings, it makes for a spicier atmosphere. Carib League, Aztlan, CAS, Yucatan..........Enough viable plothooks that each side has their handlers in the city somewhere, looking for new talent/hardware. And then there is basically the Mafia who control the legitimate business (plus some non-legal ones) and pirates running a fair share of the black market. |
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Sep 8 2005, 06:48 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Which North America is Seattle in the middle of, again? Certainly not this one.
~J |
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