Cyberknights General Q/A

[rabidbite]

Sorry should have been BLUE, not green. No. What I did was follow information provided and alluded to in the Made Not Born story arc, your own input and observations, and logical interpretation. I am still awaiting developer input.

Still, I think it's a good start, don't you?

changed status to BLUE on questions 2 and 5

rabid

[grävling]

Mar 8, 2013 15:37:25 GMT -5 rabidbite said:

Sorry should have been BLUE, not green. No. What I did was follow information provided and alluded to in the Made Not Born story arc, your own input and observations, and logical interpretation. I am still awaiting developer input.

Still, I think it's a good start, don't you?

changed status to BLUE on questions 2 and 5

rabid

Oh, I think that it is a great start.

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Another question I've always wondered: 'How much movement goes on between the domes?' - and 'How do the elite of the world travel between domes?'

This is hinted at in the descriptions of Yakuza and Yakashima, and people will have needed to work together to put up the Global Matrix in all of the domed cities.

Do they travel through tunnels? In planes? In some sort of ground transport?

What does it take to be able to travel to another zone? Could a Cyber Knight accumulate enough influence and money to get themselves an illegal journey - or would it only be the most powerful corps that can move between each city?

This thread is on a similar topic: startradersrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ckwish&action=display&thread=3829

[rabidbite]

added question 12 to Q/A.

[rabidbite]

Changed a little of the order of the questions. Probably this will happen again. Found answers of question 4 in the forums with a direct quote from developer. Short and sweet.

rabid

[Swami]

My question may have been answered to your satisfaction but not to mine.

[rabidbite]

Mar 8, 2013 23:15:40 GMT -5 Swami said:

My question may have been answered to your satisfaction but not to mine.

Wow.

Ok.

Editing to accommodate your doubts.

by the way: Nice bunny.

rabid

[Swami]

Thanks.

[grävling]

Change the Heat answer some.

1. Nothing works if you are in a zone that is suffering a Heat Wave Rumour.

2. To get rid of a little heat you can booze it up in a bar. "I need some refreshments, a meal and a drink". Useful if you need to get rid of a tiny bit of heat before Benni will pick you up. It's actually more useful to make time pass if Benni is going to be busy for 2 hours (because you rode him into the zone) and you need to ride him out, as well.

3. To get rid of more heat you can sleep in a hotel, as long as it is not the same one you slept in the last time you slept. Again, doesn't work if the zone has a Heat Wave.

4. The best way to get rid of heat is to find the VIP suite of a faction you are friendly with, and spend the day drinking and listening to rumours. As long as the region is not under a heat wave, you can burn off a huge amount of heat in one session this way. And you will have a nice set of new rumours as a bonus, and may meet some interesting people. To do this you press the 'listen' button, and then when it is greyed out, you drink vudka or order a meal, and then press the listen button again. You can keep buring heat by staying and listening and drinking long after you are exhausted.

[grävling]

I think the ganger situtation is a fair bit more ambiguous than your answer 4 makes out. For instance, the Yakuza run all the utilities in the Dome. It is safer in parts of the Free Streets area than in parts of Los V controlled areas. Finnian and Mars have some sort of relationship, as does AzTek and Blue Ox, and KH and Blue Ox.

[rabidbite]

Mar 9, 2013 5:23:48 GMT -5 grävling said:

I think the ganger situtation is a fair bit more ambiguous than your answer 4 makes out. For instance, the Yakuza run all the utilities in the Dome. It is safer in parts of the Free Streets area than in parts of Los V controlled areas. Finnian and Mars have some sort of relationship, as does AzTek and Blue Ox, and KH and Blue Ox.

Hmm. Question 4 is just about acid and toxicity. It's directed to environmental factors, not political ones. In -GENERAL-, not specifically, the answer is accurate. The reason there is toxicity and acid inside the dome is because the dome is failing, old, degrading. How the individual factions handle the toxicity isn't part of the question asked.

Do you want it added? It deviates from the scope of the question but useful information IS useful information.

For instance, the Yakuza run all the utilities in the Dome.

A little confused.

I doubt any of the factions would allow the Yakuza to run their air and water.

Do you mean that the Yakuza run all the utilities in the areas they control?

rabid

[rabidbite]

Heat answer modified. Thx for help Grav


Added Faction ladder question and information.


This is a lot of work, but slowly, the CK world is starting to make sense to me. I feel I can now write about 40-60% of Cerberus with world consistency. I'll have to take a lot of liberties (should see my notes files) but I'm quite pleased.

Now If I could find a list of the different enemies someplace....


rabid

[rabidbite]

Up to question 18 as of now.

If anyone would be able to confirm the completeness of the answers of a few of the ORANGE questions, I'd appreciate it

rabid

[Swami]

14. What are runners?
Runners are hired individuals(thugs or specialists) who will accompany you on missions(for a fee). Usually you hire them for a set time period. This time period could be as short as a day or 2(I think) to as long as a week(or more?).

You can rehire a runner at the expiration of hir contract by entering any VIP lounge and locating them by using the appropriate buttons.(I'm not in front of my device right now to clarify.)

Even dead runners can be located and returned to service at certain difficulties.(I know you can at EASY).

If you like them enough you can <Convert> runners into allies at a cost in xp. This xp cost will be taken from the runner as well as the knight. The xp is dependent on how experienced the runner is at the time of conversion. A runner must have 50 xp total before s/he can be converted. At that time the cost is 15 xp from the knight and 15 xp from the runner.
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15. Where are good places to hire runners?
VIP rooms(where you need to find persona fixers), bosses and others have runners for hire. Look around!
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16. Are there any prerequisites to hire runners?
You need to have room to manage another runner(3 max). Usually you need to have favor with a certain faction to enter their VIP rooms.
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[grävling]

Mar 9, 2013 9:41:42 GMT -5 rabidbite said:

Mar 9, 2013 5:23:48 GMT -5 grävling said:

I think the ganger situtation is a fair bit more ambiguous than your answer 4 makes out. For instance, the Yakuza run all the utilities in the Dome. It is safer in parts of the Free Streets area than in parts of Los V controlled areas. Finnian and Mars have some sort of relationship, as does AzTek and Blue Ox, and KH and Blue Ox.

Hmm. Question 4 is just about acid and toxicity. It's directed to environmental factors, not political ones. In -GENERAL-, not specifically, the answer is accurate. The reason there is toxicity and acid inside the dome is because the dome is failing, old, degrading. How the individual factions handle the toxicity isn't part of the question asked.

Do you want it added? It deviates from the scope of the question but useful information IS useful information.

For instance, the Yakuza run all the utilities in the Dome.

A little confused.

I doubt any of the factions would allow the Yakuza to run their air and water.

Do you mean that the Yakuza run all the utilities in the areas they control?

rabid

Ooops, I think I meant 6 not 4.

And as far as I know, the Yakuza are running all the utilities in the zone. Whether this means that the other factions are allowing this because they approve or because they don't give a damn about infrastructure, or because there is nothing they can do about it, is a very good question. It does make you think.

I have a positive idea of the Yakuza (in 2217, not so much in 2013) -- people who think of them as the Mafia who speak Japanese I think have the wrong sort of idea. Historically, they really have run all sorts of charities, and very often have been the outside force that counteracted the supreme power of the ruling classes. Benevolent isn't quite the correct word for them, but they often did work as the conscience of the people, the voice of the common man, and the support for those living in Japan who are not ethnic Japanese, etc. If the laws are unjust, then being a criminal is not necessarily a bad thing.

Now the addition of drug money, and the transformation of Japan as a democracy has meant that things have changed quite a lot for the Yakuza in the latter half of the 20th century. It is hard for me to tell how much benevolence is left, but they raised a huge amount of money for the victims of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. But if by 2217 what one has is corporate feudalism -- well the Yakuza is one of the few organisations with a history that can instruct them in how to not be crushed by it.

Japan, even today, is a society which doesn't divide nicely into 'legal'/'illegal' 'white'/'black'. There is a lot of areas which are culturally grey -- the law says this is mandatory, but it never happens, and the law says this is illegal, but it is widespread and accepted. So the Yakuza organisations often have an interesting position, sort of 'allowed and even to a certain extent respected criminals', as opposed to those criminal organisations which operate outside of the Yakuza, which are neither. And, of course, the Yakuza themselves are very diverse -- different organisations have different rules, customs, and internal organisation.

But what is the role of the Yakuza in 2217 and in the NBZ ?

Like all the Ladder connections, TB just tease you with hints, but never come right out and let you in on one of the stories. I keep waiting and hoping this will change. I want to find out more about what makes this society tick.