Summer 2017 Townhall: June 24th @ 3PM
The future is brighter!

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Second, mainly geared towards players, administrators feel free, how do you all feel the bridge between Corpies and Mixers has progressed since last town hall, or if you've even felt a difference at all.

Third, optional to include, can change into different thread on forums if needed for discussion, how to players thing the addition of the Red Liberation Front /recently/, affects roleplay for the divide, opportunities, and partnerships between Corpie and Mix?

Personally I would like for everything in Green/most of the stuff in Gold to ONLY use credchips, help accentuate that class divide. While it probably is an unrealistic idea, I think it could help differentiate further the Corporate Citizen and the Mixer. If Corporations didn't even pay in Chyen, and all the outlets corpies bought at were credchip only, compared to the hard cash and realities of the mix, it would provide more tangible distinction to the vastly different societies.

One change I personally would vote for is a price hike on the doctor NPCs to encourage people to immediately seek out other players, or alternatively getting rid of those 'heal me' scripts all together and require a staff puppet. Each time one of those doctors heals it takes away potential RP from a medic role! When playing nurses/EMT (I've played two of them), I had people come in, heal up with an NPC's script, then promptly walk out while ignoring me. Even though I had one particular player go out of his way to give me doctor RP, it was absolutely f***ing frustrating to see the other type of behavior. It vexes me to this day. You can't go to a tailor NPC and tell him what you want made then have a script rattle out an item. These scripts kill some of the benefits of being an EMT or doctor interested in healing people. Please change them.

While it is far less of a priority to me, more benefits to those who are looking to get into a ripper doctor role would add to the world. After all the love given to the corporate world, Red Sector needs to have some benefit of being in it other than the lifestyle. In the current incarnation of the game, characters without a medical license will definitely struggle to find their place compared to the rich licensed cyberdocs living the dream. Anyone can snatch out chrome. There aren't any illegal war-grade cybers or coded benefit versus being licensed that would make being an unlicensed doctor really appealing other than the no-corpy-oppression and mix-hustle. Having something like illegal chrome/illegal bio-mods and a market for them would be amazing.

Need to also say, I do love everything I've seen and heard about the Grid 3.0. I'm eager to hear what other people think and will definitely attend this Townhall.

By integration, i mean:

1)I would like to see more player run shops. Why are only two shops allowed to be catch all/ sell all shops while others have to have a focus? Are there -any- player run shops on Gold or Green, now? If not--how is anybody selling specialized shit up there seen as legitimate? All these homespun artists and fashion designers should be laughed out of town.

2) integrating the “shops” we have into everyday RP. Carnal Desires comes to mind first and foremost. That place was becoming a vibrant RP hub until it was split up and now characters aren’t allowed to perform there until a PC pays the lease on it. Its dead. And that sucks. After eight months of abandonment i think its safe to say that its not the player base’s fault and thought to restructuring/ rethinking this caveat might be in order. Maybe if there were some advantage to owning an RP based shop….

This leads to: Balancing.

3)There are gear/PvP shops and there are RP shops. The cost for an RP shop is the same or even multiple times higher than a PvP/Gear based shop and the weekly payout is the same or at least near the same ratio to cost. Income from PC’s, however, is -greatly- skewed toward the PvP/Gear based shops. Long story short, RP shops get screwed. Owning anything other than a gear based shop is a liability not an advantage, (again, speaking of Red Sector) leaving you with nothing to leverage more exciting RP or even put back into the economy. Its broken.

I don't understand what point you're trying to make or how you come to the conclusion something is broken, your perspective seems to be that there are players that WANT to do something with Carnal, but we aren't letting them?

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There isn't enough time during the town hall for me to address this mystery.

* Different weights for custom clothing, whether specified by the player or determined by an algorithm. To my knowledge they're all the same no matter how large or small in terms of coverage the article is.

Excited to see you all tomorrow!!