Rockwolf66

 

Of course, there's still the problem of having a minigun fed adequately, and the whole assembly being acceptably portable. Which is exactly where Psiberserker has a point IMO (scratch the battery, though, as there are AFAIK gas-operated miniguns. Since cutting weight would be a primary concern for a man-portable variant, I assume the designers would go this way).

I've had some interesting Chats with people who have built the majority of handheld M134 Miniguns. While yes in "Predator" they had an off screen bank of truck batteries. Modern Minigun harnesses carry their own batteries and have enough juice for at least a couple of ammo packs.

As far as how combat useful they are a Minigun has suppressed people who had continued to attack while being shot at by .50 cal browning machineguns. The issue with Miniguns is that unlike the M2HB they don't dig through earth and log bunkers very well.

Well I have a couple loadouts with ballistic steel inserts. They will stop a 7.62X51mm FMJ but they will have trouble stopping 5.56X45mm. Something to do with the bullets velocity and the fact that most 5.56mm nowdays is steel cored and if it doesn't punch through it leaves a crater in the armor.

Now if I get shot while wearing said armor it will hurt but it probably will not kill me.

I'm tempted to make a Cyberpunk2020 dedicated Facebook group.

Hey all,

A year ago I lost my dad to a fatal heart attack. He was 70 and had lived for 15 years past when the doctors had expected him to die. It was at a family camping trip. I was working so I wasn't there. he had a good time with the family and right after dinner he collapsed. it took my Uncle an hour and a half to get dad to a hospital. According to the coroner it wouldn't have mattered if he had the heart attack at the hospital itself.

It's been a year and I am still getting used to the fact that Dad is gone for good. We are still organizing his stuff but the major stuff is sorted and such.

I'm keeping a few of his firearms and getting them set up for my liking.

As Mark Said I'm on Facebook.

if there is a VFTE Google+ group I could use a PM for the link.

The map of Night City is based on the map of San Fransisco. Look at "frisco" if you want to have some idea of how big Night City should be.

La Alacrana a Nomad girl I am currently playing

Mike, your costs to run a light Helicopter is rather low.

I have various manufacturers data on multiple aircraft and for say as an example the MD500 light helecopter I get.

Fuel and Lubricants 1:

Fuel @ $3.93* gallon @ approx. 27 gallons per hour.$ 106.11

Lubricants @ 3% of fuel $ 3.18

Total Fuel ..................................................................................$ 113.97

then at the bottom of the page it has.

Total Direct Operating Cost4 ........................................ $ 328.87

that is the factory lowball numbers for an Hour of flight not including things like

4 Indirect costs such as insurance, hangar, salary, etc., are excluded

Larger Aircraft have bigger expenses.

Note I do not have any quick data on civilian prop aircraft. but I do know that their operating costs are lower.

Yeah and those Mosin Rifles used to be dirt cheap. Now days you would have to make your own SVD/PSL pistol.

From watching the video you can almost hide one under a jacket.

If I remember correctly some of those Butter Smugglers were using Surplus German Armored cars from WWII.

Huh, came back to grab some info about Run.Net and ended up here.

 

I basically stopped with CP2020, as we drew closer and closer to the date the old girl is starting to show her age. I switched over to GURPS almost exclusively a bit over a year ago and oddly the 4th edition had nothing cyberpunk.

 

So I'm writing that book now.

 

Just got to the part for netrunning and hacking thus me here looking at old Run.Net posts for inspiration. (also rehosted the document link cause it died.)

Wait so you are another GURPS 4th ed player? Cool, I've thought about making a 4th ed Cyberpunk campaign but I already am running a different genre game.

I do find the Character Assistant to be most helpful in making stats for my various Literary characters.

Holly it's the one and Only Cybermurph.

Next thing I know the cyberpuppy will be Glomped by Boneshaker.

Where have you been and lets get the juicy details of the Runs?

Am I a horrible person for thinking

Johnny5: 1

Some Asshole: too many?

Me I'm hoping that someone improves the prototype of flexible ceramic body armor. I have a PDF for the prototype some Mine clearing guy made but the issue with it was that it let through too much KE.

It sounds like the biggest difference between this place and Oakland, CA is that Oakland's homeless people are scattered through city limits (and kept from settling down by police brutality and homeless spikes) while The Jungle is a large area that's not under police control at all.

 

Look under the bridges in any city that doesn't have winter, and you'll find that you don't have to travel to Seattle to find the same situations. I drove coast to coast, and as soon as I left snow behind, I never saw a city without homeless camps.

I used to live an Hour from SF/Oakland. San Fransisco was awash in the Homeless. First thing I remember seeing one time right before i had my throat cut was a homeless guy holding a sign that said "Starvin like Marvin" whatever the hell that meant.

I've been to some interesting places and even cities like Manchester and London have those areas that one avoids unless one is a guest of the locals.

It seems that the Combat Zone is real and it's found in Seattle.

The Jungle

I'm pretty sure that some places in California or the Northeast have similar areas. Somehow this actually does not surprise me as several large cities refuse to properly deal with their homeless problems. I know that where I am living now has issues with homeless as for most of the year the weather is nice. The camps range from garbage dumps to places that people with some outdoor living skills made with some forethought.

That sucks.

While I don't agree with some of Wisdom's views he doesn't deserve to be crippled like that.

I hope that somehow he's able to make some form of recovery and have a life worth living again.

Armor so light that a 40mm HEDP might pop it.

RPG fire on the other hand will open one up like a tin can.

I know that your link has a further link to a pdf I downloaded about the nearly 30 Narcotanks that have been found. As your article states making one is resource intensive.

@ Rockwolf

Well Rock, if I remember correctly you did lead a kind of exciting life, lol.

Well they haven't found a way to kill me yet...not for a lack of trying.

Hey Wraith,

I'm doing OK. I wish I had a steady job. That way I could afford to do a lot more Shooting as "Research" for my writing.

I've also moved to southern Oregon. It's a great place to live although I did find out that my local Class 3 SOT has a drug addict working for them. I found that after Roleplaying with him and his friends. Hopefully the BATFE takes away all of his and his friend's firearm(Yeah they are the sort of people who should not have firearms).

From somewhere on the web I found an Excel based Cyberpunk2020 character generator. It's an Interesting little file and it works for double checking the math on characters but it's bugged. Like the Skills for a techie don't work right or you cannot add more roles to it. Some of the errors have the name Simpson attached.

Dropbox link

Hopefully Someone can ID this and the bugs can get worked out.

Yeah I know this is a Cyberpunk 2020 forum.

I've gotten my hands on a copy of GURPS Cyberpunk and I'm wondering what everyone else who's read a copy feels about it? I've played in a GURPS CP game and it seems to actually be a good fit if you have a GM who is willing to work with a player.

Happy Birthday MarkC,

Alas I cannot send you a truckload of link.

Well another year has gone by and this place seems emptier and emptier. I guess I'm rather sad as one of the best Web forums I've been involved with is fading away.

Well It is confirmed that the perps* were Muslim. What is not confirmed is their motive. Apparently one of the perps knew the people they were targeting. Even though California has the toughest weapon laws in the country it did not stop people with Evil intentions.

*I'm not going to say their name as I am a big fan of the "Some A$$hole Initiative.