Cyberware

Wow, ok, this is the second time I've read this post. So why didn't I think to post before? *scratches head* hmm..oh well
A lot of really cool ideas in here, Hiro. Can I call you Hiro? ;)
In particular, the memory chip implants. When I first came across the mem modules available for e-notes at the markets, I was all psyched 'cause I thought they were for PEOPLE!(yes yes, silly me.) I would really like to see the memory function expanded upon, and if not then to at least have cyberware available to modify it once your character gets enough mulah.
Didja know that the average short term memory span is -actually- 7 +/- 2 chunks of info? 'Tis a proven fact…so even though my character is something of a dumbass she should still get at least 5 little memory storage-chunk-things.
:p
ok, enough of smart alec mode, back to the post.
The whole bit about animal DNA splicing is..whee! I love it! But that and the idea of cyberware claws remind me of a little post I made a while back in character ideas or something. Johnny had some good comments to make on that, which you may wanna check out.
I'd still like to play a rabid dog, tho. So maybe..with enough splicing...you could be almost exactly like one? *shrugs*
Even if you can't actually turn -into- the animal...I really like the idea of getting some of the features. Would be pretty exotic...bordering on fantasy-genre, actually.
Ooh, this post is getting long, but I still have more to say. The whole elastic face thing would be neato. Far as I can tell, though, the diguise skill has no real application (unless it factors in with stealth somehow for hiding?). You can't 'disguise self as so-and-so' and change your name...as I've found out...without just RPing it. But that in itself would be a really cool feature to add. Yup yup.

And man...I think I saw a movie about a gang of dog-men...well I channel-surfed smack into it, at least. I sincerely hope that the fact I can't remember any more of it is because I promptly flipped the channel again.
*shudders*
Ever seen Space Truckers? Or something to that effect?

ohhh…I'm sorry *hug*
Glad you're still posting, though :)

Guess what..I just thought of something extra to say! Must be the orange I just ate or something. Got them thinking juices flowing.

What if when your character gets spliced with animal DNA, you inherit one of the animal's weaknesses or bad habits in addition with whatever positive aspect you get? Like...someone who gets bat DNA splicing for enhanced hearing or whatever also would have a tendancy to prefer the dark, or go nocturnal? That's probably not the best example, as the time a character wakes up is entirely up to the player..but it could be something to guide RP by?
I just think it would be really interesting, cause it would mean that characters would have more flaws and weaknesses. Which is needed, methinks! So the stronger you try to make your character, there's also the chance of getting some really crummy weakness which you have to live with.
Hmm...
Or the whole thing could work as a kind of random deal. So when you send you character to the splicing lab and select an animal, there are random benefits and weaknesses for each, and you never know which one you would get?
So you wouldn't have 20 people all walking around with tiger-striped hair. Maybe one would have the eyes, slightly more ear hair, enhanced muscles, teeth, whatever. And you wouldn't know what weakness they had inherited with the strong trait.

Wheee....
I like this thread!

Err…yea, I spose that works too.

*twiddles thumbs*

It's not a matter of getting 'used to' eyes moving separately. It's like losing an eye, your depth perception is gone - it's one of those things the human mind simply isn't meant to control, like your heart beat.

And, like I said, the animal thing can be in your history, genes spliced before your character came to Withmore. Or, someone could play a doc that does these things, period. I mean, tattoos aren't coded, and Lucien does them anyway. It's an RP thing. Like Lucifer's background, for those of you who have an idea - I don't know the whole of it, but it's pretty out there, and none of it is coded. But he still played it.

If you want to increase stats, there's plenty of potential, plausible, logical implants for most of them. Wired reflexes for AGL, muscle grafts for STR, olfactory/aural/eye replacements for perception, muscle and bone lace for END, and so forth.

I find this facinating.

Especially (sorry to dig up an old topic) the '7 +/-2' thing about humans and memory.

What I find most interesting is that in my work, when we make artifacts of our discussions by capturing the concepts in Universal Modeling Language, the correct ammount of objects on the diagram is always 7 +/-2. That is to say you aways want to have around 7 +/-2 'concepts' showing at any given time.

Just my small contribution, trivial as it is.

As for when cyberware will be 'out' we don't have a hard and fast date. We do however have aspects of it in active development, and are planning to integrate the framework for supporting it in the very near future.

The problem with say that is even when that's 'done', that dosn't translate into you having the ability to go hog wild, because there still will be a fair amount of work left before you'll see everything you need to become a ninja for only 1,000,000,000 chyen. But we will get there, and you can expect to start to see results in the very near future.

You'll also be getting a fair number of christmas presents… so hold on for thoes.

-Kevlar

(Edited by Kevlar at 1:12 am on Dec. 14, 2002)

i'd like to become an automated pop machine for only 5000 cheyn please.

and yes lottery… there's a lottery ticket machine (at least the last time i checked.. wich -was- uhm.. months ago... but... no lottery?

and i think my short term memory is about that -2... on a good day... with no numbers involved... *sigh*

and there is no point to this post other then

"cyberware! good! ugh!"

oh wait.. i just thought of something...  maybe a bit less pointless. the idea of going crazy with descriptions is interesting. i've seen one... yes ONE really odd description and it was a sleeper with 3 breastes. nothing else... to be fair i'm not around that much, so maybe i missed the zebra child or monkey woman or hemaphrodite with antennas... anything... and kay, i've only had one character so i havn't gone the road of dogfaced men (with no killer fangs mind you, because that's a no no)

but i like where that can go... *nods and wanders off to think*

*pats you on the head and gives you a cookie*

yes… this one. :biggrin: thank you.

*thinks*

uhm... is there a way i can move my last post about the retna eye camera thing in here to keep things nicer and tidyerer?  
or does it really matter? :P

(Edited by Bias at 3:26 pm on Jan. 2, 2003)