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Well, for the last five (5) years each summer has been 'the hottest on record', exceeding the one before it by no small margin.

This summer's heatwaves started mid spring and are still ongoing. It was 40ºc inside my house last week for a few days.

It's now untenable to live here without significant insulation and air conditioning.

I talked to some friends at the climate research centre at the University of Tasmania and they tell me that I'm not the only one. There's a steady and increasing Australian migration south that's putting pressure on house prices, rentals and infrastructure in the southern states and the northern states are facing big problems with power generation staying with demand. As an aside, she says she privately no longer thinks 'climate change' and now thinks 'climate collapse'.

I don't know what's more cyberpunk than this. But not in a good way.

I'm in a new play-by-post in Dischord which is looking for players. We won't be using voice channels.

The premise is Militech is hiring ACPA pilots to test new armour.

The posting rate is fast, every two days minimum, but you can disappear for a few days or whatever and come back of course.

I was wondering what sort of bonus you get with a Red Dot Sight or a Holographic Sight.

Standard scopes give the shooter +2 at extreme range and +1 at long range.

I was thinking +1 to hit and +1 initiative at short range.

Thoughts?

Has anyone made up a Maximum Metal format such as exists for ground vehicles etc for lightweight drones similar to those used by modern armies for scouting?

I've just finished reading McKee's The Friendless Sky, an account of the genesis of aircraft in The First World War. Technological advancement went something like this:

- Prototypes.

These aircraft were simply the effort of designers getting the 'aircraft' concept to work in combat situations. This milestone has already been passed.

- Scouts.

Aircraft immediately became useful as scouts giving real-time information of the battlefield. This milestone has also already been passed.

- Multi-Role.

Combat between scouts became commonplace. Better armed and more maneuverable scouts were developed.

- Specification.

Aircraft split into different types; bomber, interceptor and scout. Each specialisation allowed the aircraft type to triumph over multi-role craft.

I think drones are repeating this pattern to a certain extent. As a result I was thinking of writing out a construction rules-set for light, unmanned vehicles. Has anyone already done this?

RPG.net has its phases of moderation. It was once a pretty 'everything goes' place but that time is gone.

I'm running a Call of Cthulhu: Invictus game at RPOL but unfortunately no Cyberpunk. I'll keep my eyes open

There's a new game being advertised over at RPOL.net.

 

It's not my game, I just saw it come up and thought I'd mention it here.

9 players, looks like its full already.

 

Whenever I do a search on RPOL for Cyberpunk or variants thereof it always comes back blank.

Rocky has a game running he might let you in

There's a new game being advertised over at RPOL.net.

It's not my game, I just saw it come up and thought I'd mention it here.

Online,

 

It's on RPOL.net and it's being ran by a Finn I know from a Twilight 2000 forum.

 

Some Corp(se) has kidnapped the rockergirl's sister. Now we are going to get the sister back.

Hey! I'm in that too (Speedy)

I've felt amorous feelings towards my toaster since I got my new glasses

Good to see you're still kicking Wis

With the new game (CyberPunk 2077) there's been an uptick of interest in CP

Personally I think he should just hire the various people in datafortress' varied essays and use them; work already done and playtested

. . . and it looks like the actual game won't come out until 2020 - 2021 along with an updated CyberPunk 2020

Personally I use Deep Space + interstellar exploration

"Have a new life in the off world colonies . . . "

Great idea. Drones are probably the third wave of the connectivity revolution

Well, the first thing we didn't see coming was interoperability. Everything these days is interconnected.

The bio/cyber rage of human upgrading was always a science fantasy idea which still has its real world basis. They are making limbs that feel, legs that run fast etc. so there is a basis for that in games.

Did the maths and worked out that modern infantry armour is SP40!

We may have to rethink some of the armoured vehicles and power armours

The dystopia we got is a less interesting one and, as predicted, no one likes the people trying to change the social order

Alas, year 2018...

Yep, and the last active game here was in 2016.

 

Perhaps in two years time someone will play Cyberpunk 2020 in 2020 just for the novelty value.

I'd love to play a cyberpunk whatever here but I'm running a RuneQuest v3.5 game at rpg.net and playing a morrow project v4.0 game at D20.com which means I won't have time to GM anything

Here's an idea for a local festival starting to spread.

The March in the Dark festival comes from the Nairobi Undercity, a place where homeless live and conduct the black market that is their only source of income in the underworks of the tech bases in Nairobi. On June 17 at noon everyone grabs their kids and pets and goes down to the to the Main Cistern for the dance. The music goes until midnight and becomes progressively wilder with weapons being brandished, weird armour is worn by the dancers and pulsing rhythms from the massive music set up that can be heard in the tunnels, underground facilities and stormwater systems.

At midnight the whole population sets off through the winding tunnels following the path of some egderunners that long ago the shot their way out on a mission gone bad. Bandits, thugs and any hostiles make themselves scarce as the population force their way up to the surface and emerge at an old quarry outside of town. As the sun come up they share food and drink and at lunch head back down.

With Christmas and the New Year upon us I started thinking 'what sort of festivals do the underclass in the cyberpunk world celebrate? How do they do it?

The Day of the Dead is a good one of course.

Berlin sewers

Anyone know of any other subterranean rail systems?

I don't really know.

 

But I know that, back in the Soviet times, metro systems were, actually, designed as fallout shelters. So here's that

The London Tube is of course a good one. In Split Second it was flooded and abandoned but it could be a great dystopian underworld

I haven't played CP2020 for a while; our last attempt was less dystopian than RL USA. Most of my friends have gone off on strong alternate political vision than myself and they want the enemy to essentially 'be me'!

Very true

 

But my interest in the book on a near future angle is how the separate stations evolved their own micro cultures

Continuing on with this, has anyone else used an underground railway to create a culture?

Sadly, Sydney's underground is broken into sections. Hobart hasn't got one and I haven't seen an underground rail in Brisbane yet.