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I'm creating a new character and I need to type in a LTG #.
You don't have to, you know. That page of NSCRG is mostly optional.
What?
Oh. NSCRG.
Well. There was a discussion about format a while back. I started it. *Looks*
Oh. NSCRG.
Well. There was a discussion about format a while back. I started it. *Looks*
ok i'll just type in a string of random numbers.
i usually use four-three-four. i think that's standard, but i couldn't tell you where i got that pattern from.
Par example: NA/UCAS-SEA-226-4077
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.
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.
Only...we're not talking about SINs.
| QUOTE (DV8) |
| Par example: NA/UCAS-SEA-226-4077 |
I've normally eliminated the '226' part, figuring that the 'SEA' (or CAS, SIO, PCC)prefix covers this.
But that leaves only 10000 combinations for SEA, which is decidedly too few.
~J
~J
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.
| QUOTE (Kagetenshi) |
| But that leaves only 10000 combinations for SEA, which is decidedly too few. |
Yeah I know, which is why I eventually changed the way I did it.
| QUOTE (John Campbell) |
| 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. |
*Weep*
~J
4 alphanumeric digits would provide 1,679,616 unique values. Not that I know of any canon support for using alphanumerics for this purpose.
Currently its something like:
5464-513-4897
That should be good enough. But thanks alot people.
5464-513-4897
That should be good enough
. But thanks alot people.
| QUOTE (Herald of Verjigorm) |
| 4 alphanumeric digits would provide 1,679,616 unique values. Not that I know of any canon support for using alphanumerics for this purpose. |
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.
heck, i can do that right now, campbell. "start over."
| QUOTE (Fortune) | ||
Yeah I know, which is why I eventually changed the way I did it. |
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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