Cyberknights General Q/A

[xdesperado]

@rabid your using the wrong population figures.
For base numbers look at modern day cities like Mumbai India and Kolkata India which have incredible dense populations.
There is a reason they call them coffin hotels, the "room" is basically a space just large enough to crawl into and stretch out on the mattress. Private dwellings will be nearly as cramped.

[xdesperado]

@rabid note as of the 2010 US Census figures Boston had less than a third of the population density of Los Angeles which compared to cities world wide is not very crowded at all.
As of 2010 L.A. had a density of only 6,999 per square mile. Mumbai India was at 80,100 per square mile as of 2012 and other cities are even more densely populated.

[rabidbite]

Question: What do people eat in the New Boston Zone?

I ask because I'm thinking about employment, merchants, small-shops, restaurants, little stands in corners selling food, gizmos, junk. Just wondering how to picture the wares and the atmosphere.

EDIT: I think I just answered my own question about food. This is DEFINITELY a way I can picture meat (that isn't mutated or rat) in the NBZ. I bet it can be used for grain too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20972018


Medical purposes too:

www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/doctors-use-3d-printer-to-rebuild-cancer-victims-face-29165321.html

Mar 30, 2013 18:16:49 GMT -5 xdesperado said:

@rabid note as of the 2010 US Census figures Boston had less than a third of the population density of Los Angeles which compared to cities world wide is not very crowded at all.
As of 2010 L.A. had a density of only 6,999 per square mile. Mumbai India was at 80,100 per square mile as of 2012 and other cities are even more densely populated.

What follows is a huge brain data dump. I am writing as I think. Pretty much having a brainstorm on the CK environment for writing purposes.

Now, 1.2 square miles isn't large at all. That means each zone in the CK map is ... what .. 3-4 blocks? tops?

Mubai and other cities have those huge population numbers and thousands live without electricity or water of any kind. In CK world .. THAT IS FATAL. The air is toxic with both chems and nano-bots. Can't keep the required infrastructure to maintain such high population within 1.2 miles, which neatly screws with the concept of "maintenance".

In fact, ALL of CK is toxic, not in the chemical sense, but because everything and everyone has a certain degree of Nano-bot contamination. That means that, there must be, as well, nano-bot IMMUNE systems fighting the rogue-nanos roaming in a person's bloodstream. There are just too many nanos in the wastes to be able to fight against them without Dome protection. Underground is another story ... who knows what's down there.

I have to believe the CK map does not take the ridiculously crowded conditions into consideration ( I saw pictures of Mubai, the map would have to be completely different). Just think about the WALL, required spacing for clear lines of fire, the thick concrete, the guard houses, the LACK of people living in ALL that area. The wide open spaces of those highways....

To provide more more realism in the sense of the overcrowded cramped feel, I can assume there are multiple levels below the map JUST as big as the entire map, all populated, all full of people living, farting, mating, dying, and fighting. Like the NBZ is a Vault in a Fallout game ... Vault New Boston Zone- 13. :-)

I get an image of say, the 5th Element, Total Recall (the recent crap remake), Judge Dredd (the old supra crowded version).

Given the obvious limitations of the CK MAP, the only way I can think about effective corp and gang area segregation is that the WALL extends underground. Below the surface The WALL takes the form of security guard stations (like gates guarding different levels of .. oh say .. Minas Tiris in the hobbit, or Phase World in the RIFTS rpg game, or even in a .... Holy god I just got a great idea for a plot twist).

Also, range .... combat in the NBZ can't be field oriented, its tight and personal. Urban combat in the most crowded, closet type, maze-twisty sort of labyrinth possible. So that means sniper shots are not field shots. We talking 100 feet .. 200 feet shots. (not meters) Thinking about WW2 sniping in urban settings (Private Ryan for example). Won't be seeing any distance records in CK world.

NOTE: If sniper rifle ranges of today taken into consideration, along with skill, theoretically a sniper could sit on top of a building, or the wall, in ... oh ... say .. Downtown Gateway and shoot someone in Dorchester, or even Waterfront, given clear line of sight.

Brainstorm off, its almost 1 AM here.

rabid

[rabidbite]

Still looking for data on THESE two questions:

19. What are all the different types of Conflicts and how do they affect the game?
20. What are all the different types of Rumors and how do they affect the game?


Will work on updating ICONS for the game next.

rabid

[fallen]

rabidbite - Thanks for the poke. We have a ticket to eventually get all of the Rumors / Conflicts properly documented in the help file. We will post here when that is ready.

[rabidbite]

Added question 23 and 24. Both with relatively good answers.

Incorporated CK enemy list

Incorporated CK: Armor, Accessory and Cybenetics google docs list.


I hope this stuff is useful guys!


rabid

[rabidbite]

I have edited all four lists (Enemy, Armor, Accessory, cybernetic) and frozen in place the titles so that organizing the lists do not scramble them up.

rabid

[rabidbite]

Well, that's odd. I edited the Q/A yesterday, extensively. None of it is showing up today. Did the boards have a crash?

[fallen]

rabidbite - not of which we are aware! Sorry that the edits were lost ...

[Jamozk Ekhiss]

Question: How does the quantum encryption of a Cyber Knight work? Going by advances already made in quantum processing, the classical qubit approach would mean any encryption could be broken in minutes - how do Cyber Knight's processors avoid this?

[rabidbite]

Jun 10, 2013 9:58:58 GMT -5 Jamozk Ekhiss said:

Question: How does the quantum encryption of a Cyber Knight work? Going by advances already made in quantum processing, the classical qubit approach would mean any encryption could be broken in minutes - how do Cyber Knight's processors avoid this?

I have a theory written here:


The QCP provided a vault in a man’s mind; an unbreakable Fort Knox.

This Fort Knox was a place where information could be stored and encrypted, not simply by some mundane mathematical system, but by the very fabric of a human memory.Since memory was unique for each individual, each Quantum Chip Processor built its own unique encryption. It was an encryption that changed every single moment because as humans experienced life, memories changed. Two people could be at the same time, experience the same event, and they would always have different experiences.

Those in power do not like those without to keep secrets.

Read more: startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/3779/cerberus#ixzz2WmNm9ovY

[ncaoa]

Jun 20, 2013 12:41:19 GMT -5 rabidbite said:

Jun 10, 2013 9:58:58 GMT -5 Jamozk Ekhiss said:

Question: How does the quantum encryption of a Cyber Knight work? Going by advances already made in quantum processing, the classical qubit approach would mean any encryption could be broken in minutes - how do Cyber Knight's processors avoid this?

I have a theory written here:


The QCP provided a vault in a man’s mind; an unbreakable Fort Knox.

This Fort Knox was a place where information could be stored and encrypted, not simply by some mundane mathematical system, but by the very fabric of a human memory.Since memory was unique for each individual, each Quantum Chip Processor built its own unique encryption. It was an encryption that changed every single moment because as humans experienced life, memories changed. Two people could be at the same time, experience the same event, and they would always have different experiences.

Those in power do not like those without to keep secrets.

Read more: startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/3779/cerberus#ixzz2WmNm9ovY

Very cool theory!

[Jamozk Ekhiss]

I see - so if the encryption is cracked in one minute, it's changed in that time anyway to render those efforts obsolete. I like it!

[rabidbite]

Added Jamozk Question as question 25.

I should edit the icon's question but ... it requires picture editing and I'm soooo laaaaaazy about it!


rabid

[pepoluan]

Question: what is meant by "nano-ready" armor?


And another question: how is it possible for the cyberloader to be shared between the knight and his/her runners?