I was looking at the Jackpoint login page (p.4 Augmentation). It shows current timestamp as August 20, 2070 0704. So 7:04 in the morning, and last connection severed 13 hours 13 minutes and 18 seconds prior. So logged off at 5:50 PM the night before. What does this guy punch a time clock or something? Off at 6pm and in the next morning at 7am… Either that’s one sad shadowrunner trying to keep business hours, or FastJack is letting in the corpers. Or maybe that's just Adam trying to get sympathy for his 11 hours a day schedule?

Could be zulu time, which means very very little about his actual hours unless he's British or something.

Very common in computer terms to use a single time stamp rather than worry about time zones, ya?

Not really, any good forum such as this one will adjust the time to user's local time. I imagine Jackpoint is at least as sophisticated as DSF?

Only if they actually report a location. Which for an illegal discussion forum about Shadowrunning, I would be surprised. I'm sure at least half the people on the forum are masking their time zone.

-Frank

Ah, but you see, the timestamp DSF shows for me is 1:54, while my actual time, and computer time are 1454. Now, assuming that DSF's 1:54 is PM, that means that it still has very little to do with what time zone I actually post from.

As a presumably 'illegal' site, populated by notionally paranoid runners, would anyone actually be so foolish as to make sure their time stamp was accurate to their local time? Nothing like 'narrowing the feild' if someone is hunting for ya.

'This guy here seems to know an awful lot about our superdooper secret squirrel project, what do we know about him?'

'Well, he's a shadowrunner, and his time stamp, coupled with his posting history, suggests he is from Seattle. That narrows the feild to about a dozen people'

'Great, mobilize our Delta Zombie team to the Seattle sprawl, ready to move as soon as we narrow the prospective candidates. See if we can set this fool up."






Terrible example, I know, just terrible.

Consider if Jackpoint sends a standard time, I wouldn't put it past 63 years in the future technology is capable of manipulating the time locally without broadcasting it...

Heh, also noticed the sidebar starting on page 6 says, "According to our sources, these 10 corps (in no particular order) are the ones to watch next year."

Then proceeds to list them in alphabetical order.....

Hummn, I never thought of the roleplaying ramifications of having a sleep regulator and having 20 hours to fill each day.

Bored often. Full of half remembered useless trivia. Having a very high level MMORPG character that he doesn't stop talking about....

Sounds like my days recently... I've screwed up my circadian rhythms enough that I'm currently on Hawaii time or something in that general area.

Remember that not everyone who accesses Jackpoint is a "shadowrunner" so it can be assumed that the person "reading" it, who's login information you see, may not necessarily be one, either.

And, of course, perhaps he or she woke up at 17:30 the previous afternoon, read Jackpoint, went on a few 'runs, chatted to Harlequin, saved the world, and was home checking mail before slipping into bed at 07:00 the next day. Who sez they were sleeping?

You've all got it totally upside down.

He's going to 'work' at 6pm, and staggers home at 5am and is posting while he cleans his gun. I mean, what else the heck are you going to do.

ah yes, shadowrunners are nightworkers.

thats why they can cooperate with hackers

I wouldn't expect a sleep regulator to affect the duration of Longhaul. It takes a certain amount of time for a body to process the drug and get it out of its system, and I don't really see the sleep regulator effecting that much.

Although having a sleep regulator might help mitigate the crash effects.

or maybe just drive you off the wall. the body needs to sleep at some point...

I think the rules say that they don't stack. My guess is that longhaul has the normal effect of keeping you awake for days and you crash normal too. When you're not taking it you still sleep less thanks to the regulator.