Life as a corpie

Corpie life is basically totally pointless. RP is few and far between, and usually extremely mundane unless there's a global plot going on that happens to relate in some way. Either way, the RP 100% of the time revolves around corpie/Red encounters. Basically, there is no 'corpie world', social system, economy, or anything resembling what exists on Red.

I realize work has gone into Gold as of late, with lots of new rooms and areas added. But could this be too ambitious for Sindome? There was one GM that was basically running things and new what was going on well, and helped set things up by puppeting the vital NPCs that make the corpie world what it needs to be.

Since April there has been little or no feedback, at least to me, by any corp related NPC despite constant efforts on my part. Yes, I'm bitching about this here because it's been practically five months and I've seen players disappear because of the lack of support. I fully realize that lack of GMs and the lack of any one GM to know everything about everything even with the benefit of notes. I realize that GMs might misunderstand a players RP, especially if they're not familiar with a situation, and that a simple misunderstanding might lead to a really weird interaction between players that probably should never have happened.

Because of the circumstances, which are simply beyond our control, does it even make sense to keep a 'corpie' side to the game anymore? Why not make whatever corpies really exist just GM puppets?

Honestly, after six months plus of playing a corpie character and a lot of patience, I'm am losing sight of the point.

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I'm going to add that, I haven't given up trying to play a corpie char, and I still like Sindome enough to remember patience is key to great fun. All the same, just wanted to vent even tho everyone knows already…

All good

(Edited by BuddhaBrand at 10:56 pm on Aug. 5, 2006)

That situation was well…BS (seeing on how playability should have been considered and those fruit cakes should have spoke with me from time to time)

I believe in another thread someone wrote " The mix is where it's at right now". Well derr, if people started playing corporate characters, then there would be an even balance.

They have engineering skills, research skills, business oriented skills basically. There is a system in place that Iga created which has a lot of potential and was really fun and cool.

It placed us PC chars within a greater corporate structure, there was the idea that it wasn't just like 1 or 2 lonely corpies in a glass tower, but that there was a greater structure moving around us…

Unfortunately that system is totally dependent on whether a GM knows the ins and outs of a relatively complicated system. There's work involved in keeping track of budgets, projects, and the details therein.

There are no PC corpie chars that have enough experience to be given the responsibility to control things like massive corporate project budgets. PC side there was some work on creating an "administrative" kind of structure..but with the grid down it doesn't work.

There was also an issue with only on GM having access to the password to to the employee terminal.. and other stuff that makes things just not run.

Only thing I could suggest is a more automated system that doesn't require constant GM supervision.

Unless you work for the WJF, I think it's just too damn boring up there.

(Edited by InsaneRadical at 3:01 pm on Aug. 14, 2006)

The Operator position is available, CSI stuff too, like forensics and coroner. Mechanics to fix the carcasses some judges bring back saying it's a cruiser.

Also as Biohazard said, NLM is full of openings like street journalist, program controller and all sorts of stuff.

There are even 'coded' corpie jobs that function like SHI.

A good niche right now would be driving people around for a fee.

Also on the list are all the jobs you can get on RED. Bartenders, shopkeepers, etc.

We lack tailors, and we all know Calvin Klein. Who will be the next Sindome Tailor of the Stars?

The main thing we lack to get the corporate side going is players. Since we can't guarantee 24/7 GM support, we need more players uptown and out on the streets or a bar/caf�/restaurant (kinda like the Drome is for the mix) so all the existing players can mingle and RP with one another. While a paychek is good and a source of RP, socialization should be the main focus when you are connected, assuming that some of your offline time is spent working.

I'd like to, but you can't really do it without support, the way things have been set up.

I don't even want to try inventing some kind of job "contents" i.e. a project, research, stream lining systems, or some other thing one would be expected to do simply because I do not know how things work.

If I invented something, it would simply be a ridiculous  invention in my mind that nobody knew the slightest thing about. Hence no RP… you just can't play the "virus maker at ViriiSoma" role without alot of GM support. Nothing will happen (except maybe you are called a fraud/mad scientist or something :P)

I don't really know the full procedures of my chars workplace, even though my char is an employee... I mean, it just hasn't been fully developed yet even though I'm aware that GMs have a very particular type of system in mind.

I've said in in previous posts, but communication is a major issue in the corpie world (even as a separate issue to the Grid).

Originally I was given tasks to fulfil, with really detailed information, numbers, facts, lines of inquiry, stuff to do, but that system just requires like 24/7 GM support. When it was there, it was really cool. There was communication and there was a lot of potential RP being developed. I'd like to see that system continued.

Of course, a lot of time was spent idling since the RP was mostly about the work we were 'supposed' to have been doing in between, but still it was fun to have something to discuss, even if it was chatter amongst ourselves that was basically made up shit derived from the foundations laid for us by a GM.

However, since at the moment at least, the really job related part of it can't always be moving along, probably 90-100% of a corpies RP takes place in social settings like cafes/restaurants/etc the real point is just that.. numbers.

So more people become corpies! The suits are nice, seriously! And you don't have to worry too much about money! (Thankfully, Kevlar, I don't think anybody has to pretend anymore that they have money even if they don't...). Disposable income! Toys to play with! Bitches! Cars! Shiny shoes! Fuck yeah. Maybe people think its boring, but I guarantee if more people hop in it will pick up intensely.

But I guess some of them got bored and left, which brings us back to the part where being a character on GOLD/GREEN is unbearably boring.

It's a vicious cycle and takes the game off its balance.

Dubya-Jay's are much fun...
Reporters are gods. :bollox: (Well...not so much so without the grid but for god's sake buy an e-note)
Script's take a long time to write but there's always live coverage.

I think this thread cover just about all there is to say…