Consolidate Corpsec
Corporate contracts for protection of property

It would make doing crimes against corporations more of a death sentence than it already is. What if people are targeting the less-populated corporations specifically because they're less populated? Low-pop factional play is riding the struggle bus pretty hard as it is for most players. I've been in situations like this before, and it's not fun going 'ce KEYNAME Eleven PM and all is clear.' to a faction of NPC's.

I do agree on some level that the WJF as a concept tends to shift a lot of conflict away from CorpSec players -- and I would also argue that the 2000 AD fascist totalitarism Hall of Justice concept is fundamentally not compatible with a Shadowrun-esque sovereign corporatocracy, but I don't think the resolution to that incompatibility would be to merge them since it would move even further away from the corporate shadow war.

I do think there are some practical solutions that could be implemented that would achieve the underlying concept (give CorpSec players broader engagement with conflicts topside), like somewhat expanding corporate territories and jurisdictions.

I've certainly noticed an increase in corporate jurisdictional authority compared to a year or two years ago, in my experience it's been a positive thing.

For example, I see Altered Carbon (more focused on the books here) as riding the line between Cyberpunk and SciFi. It's barely Cyberpunk to me but has enough Cyberpunk elements that I don't care. It's an awesome story. Shadowrun does a great job of mashing Cyberpunk and Fantasy but it's also edge-case Cyberpunk in my mind. And my mind is just my mind, I am sure many feel very different and they are not wrong.

I have consumed Cyberpunk where every big corp has it's own private army and Cyberpunk where security was outsourced to a couple of high-profile security companies. My favorite is Cyberpunk that is a mix as I dislike monolithic, excessively organized world building. Life is messy.

I do think that the WJF has the potential to be what people are talking about here. In some ways it already is. But the WJF also suffers from some elements that, in my opinion, make it terribly unfriendly to both players and staff. Which is sad because I feel that more PCs protecting PCs on Gold, we could seriously get rid of the whole 'announce crimes first' rules we currently have.

I respect what the original post was about: Maybe this would allow topside Security types to enjoy more action, fun and RP! I don't think many people would be against the core of what the proposed idea was hoping to change. Maybe I am wrong but most I've spoken to want as much action, fun and RP as possible - for themselves and for other players.

But in the end, I don't think it's helpful to declare any idea as being 'terrible' or 'not Cyberpunk'. It's far more useful, I think, to talk about why you like or dislike the idea based on Sindome's flavor of Cyberpunk (which can change) and how it would impact game play (even AWESOME ideas might be disliked because of the nature of the game we play).

What I'd like to see, personally:

- CorpSec 'militant' action restricted to corporate grounds. Harsh penalties, both from the WJF and from management internally for doling out justice and acting outside of their corporation's immediate interests/investment.

- WJF activity upon corporate grounds similarly restricted. "This is an internal matter. You may wait in the lobby."

- Corporate PCs picking more fights to generate conflict and RP for their respective corpsec employees rather than just quietly collecting a paycheck.