I intented to drop on that because I said what I wanted and anyway, it serves nothing apart feeling I did the right thing. Which I can easily leave for more productive activities, as being right in an internet argument is still dumb.
Here's a tip.
When someone involved in the development of a game tells you something that contradicts your view of how the development team works, they're right and you're wrong. That's where you apologise and / or drop it. Not say you still think you're right. Because basically, you haven't got a clue.
So if you had read my post, you would have seen that they are not so right, since the fact is that one of them (maybe not Bull but one dev team guy, just had the doubt this morning about that) blatantly told to those of us who were complaining about something "get over it, it's done [...]".
So much for taking feedback into account. And while I had no part in the above mentionned argument, as a fan, and as a client, I felt as much insulted by that that people can feel insulted when I point them their mistakes or the things that don't work (at least as intended) in the rules they wrote. I said nothing before but reading this from Bull made me react.
I won't say anything else about the team's workings, but we have at least proof that for one statement, they are wrong about their own politics.
Apart of that, I won't talk no more about that, since that displease so much people apart of them. I see blasphemies take new forms our days...
So now, back to the game
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It sounds a lot like the corps have off-loaded some functions of gear into the cloud, because "The Matrix is Safe Now (TM)" and it would also have all sorts of DRM and Metadata advantages for them.
Indeed. While that makes a little sense for common implants, that view doesn't when it comes to combat enhancement implants.
Well the "Matrix is Safe Now (TM)" so there wasn't a lot of concern that thing would get hacked.
The Matrix was safe when it crashed, two times. And the Matrix was safe when they discovered TM. And they don't even know about the Sybil virus.
But hey, SR people must be a true bunch of ignorants who never happen to learn (I know that could be said about us, but we seem to have learn a bit if not enough, from past wars and other disasters we encountered before).
Apparently that's wrong, because Deckers can hack gear in a matter of seconds now,
Finally it is less safe than before;)
Also, in real life, people leave security holes in all sorts of stuff they'd be smart not to. Many real world internet companies use a webmail setup for their internal e-mail, even on wifi enabled laptops, and hell, there are real life examples of pace makers being hackable. Reality is stranger than fiction.
Well, I am aware of that. But mostly it is because people is not aware, smart enough in that field, don't care about their privacy or firmly believe the danger to be real (so it is not a problem if a potential movie hacker could enter in their phone and listen whatever they are doing just because there is an exploit in the chip firmware). And strangely, once they are aware, understand or are proven by FACTS that the danger is real and not so infrequent, well, they react, they scare, and they scream to the corps.
Look at XBOx1, look at Exynos exploits (Samsung), look at PSN, and so on.
So people are not so dumb.
I figure, and I have no text to back this concept up, the reason that Wired Reflexes and Reaction Enhancers work better together when on wireless isn't that wireless is some how faster, or that street docs don't bother to plug the two system into each other, but that there is a cloud computer app somewhere they hook into that does a bunch of pattern recognition on the user's movements and detected threats and optimizes the performance of both systems so they aren't getting in each others way, possbily providing AR guides indicating optimal dodge directions or threat vectors. "Now with Ares QuickDraw Network (TM)"
Well, as wired reflexes are, based on fluff, neural boosters and adrenal stims, and supraconductive neural replacements, I guess that having computerizing power for that kind of calculation would be better in Movebywire implants or a third party implant with motor control capacity, because enhancers and wires can't get in the way of one another (and Matrix can't interpret what is a threat for you or what to dodge based upon your sole motor information, but I buy the pattern recognition part). But I recognize that is an idea, cause while they are basically "neural impulse augmenters" and "improved neural signal transporters", a module could basically be used to replace input from the brain by input from the module itself.
Which makes me wonder what will happen if you hack enhancers? Will you have a doll whose movements you'll be able to control.
I can make up similar concepts for most of the wireless bonuses I've seen so far. (Again, I don't have a book) So those goggles that give a perception bonus when on wifi are using Evo's O.W.L.Sight Image Recognition Network, etc. It might be a bit silly, but it fits the rules about needing to be connected to the Matrix to get bonuses. I still don't know why you need a special internet app to have faster chemical seal activation, so the distributed computing explanation isn't perfect, but it's less silly than the "internet is magic" strawman argument.
Well at least, that's some thinking. Thank you.
I just hope this concept isn't taken to the conclusion that registered software in 4th ed was, and make it possible for Corps to track or locate you after a run by looking at the gear use logs unless you jump through 9 kinds of hell to anonymize your gear's wireless bonuses
Well, still, there would be some logic to that. Or, if you use some "spoofed chips" (can you with NEW MATRIX?), you still leave tracks, even if they can tell that is you right away but have to get you at first.
. I really didn't like having to constantly patch all my software (cracked, open source, or even self-coded) every month or two in order to avoid rating decay. It was a lot of trouble to keep accounting of for a software orientated character in order to avoid tracking bonuses for using legitimate "registered" software being used in a hack.
I guess that since there has been a will to streamline things, SOTA, if it is still here, will be a lot more simple (like "pay XX more in your lifestyle based on types of gear you have to keep updated)
Honestly what I find interesting about this "distributed computing" concept of Wireless bonuses is that it limits Street Sams (among others) in Wifi negated areas, which reminds me of Adepts loosing abilities in Background counts
Well, I hate a lot that their is too much parallels between magic and matrix. not regarding rules, but regarding the concepts (spirit/sprites, background count/noise or whatever, etc). But that is just a matter of taste.
Still, thanks for your interesting arguments.