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Just to force us players to recycle our junk items and clean up the DB a little bit. ;)
But then I read Grizzly's reply.
And given that, I think this is a horrible idea. =P
People should be stealing clothes from each other to recycle for SIC chy. That's the kind of ghetto, life sucks workarounds that I can support.
And if Corpies want to have paying their SIC bills be less time consuming then they should be hiring drivers or buying cars. If they are worried about safety they should be hiring meat shields. If they want to be seen as having people do their bidding then hire someone to follow you around, carry your flash, open doors and talk to people on your behalf.
I just think that if more people have less reason to be out then fewer people have reason to spend flash on things I'd really rather them be spending flash on. And they can't be targets and have fewer reasons to be hunters.
However, from a game play perspective, many responses have gotten it right. We intentionally designed the system in such a way that you have to show up, in person, at the HOJ if you want to pay your SIC bill. Of course, there is an IC way which has been hinted at here that allows you to skip this and pay your bill another way, but either way, both options require you leave your pad and put yourself out there.
Is this inconvenient for your character? Perhaps. But it serves a very real game purpose. People have to make choices– do I dump these clothes and get some sic cred? Do I go up to the HOJ and risk a Judge realizing who I am? Etc.
So, yeah, I appreciate the sentiment here, and it does make sense from a realism stand point, but it is also counter productive when viewed from a roleplay standpoint. We need -some- things that you just -have- to do yourself.
That's something that always lingered a bit in my mind.
Maybe less the first idea and more the second? Something less useful for the entire populace who are just lazy about making the trip, but for the people who -really- can't risk the trip and have incentive to hire a decker, specifically mixer-type deckers they'd be more likely to know or be able to get in touch with who already have fewer options to make money. Then said criminal now has -more- choices with new degrees of risk/value – do they risk a trip to the HoJ? Do they mug or kill someone for stuff to recycle? Do they hire a decker that they have to say, trust with their ID# and whatever costs the decker charges? Now the decker has RP and choices (do I rip them off? sell them out somehow? do a good job and build my rep?)
Say the decker does the job -- do they succeed for fail? Maybe they get caught or leave a trail in whatever system is implemented, maybe the RP propagates into RP for Gridworks/NLM/WJF, it all ripples out. Maybe they get totally busted and fined.
Hey, don't WJF fines kinda use the same system? Hmm.... :)
There's just something so damn beautiful about that phrase, "Boom, something for deckers to do that's themely and useful."
