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Rep

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Although some areas in the Eclipse Phase world still rely on a traditional money based economic system, many others use a new system called Rep. In simple terms, Rep is your reputation with a specific group. If you have a high Rep people will happily give you stuff and help you out, if you have a low Rep they wont. The reason it differs from a regular money based system is that it isn't a set "thing X is worth 12 Rep" kind of a system. Rep is based on scoring systems in several all pervading social networks. Having someone give you a thing because you have a high Rep wont necessarily cause your Rep to go down, but constantly asking for stuff and never giving anything back absolutely will. Similarly, your Rep could go up or down based on things you say or things you don't do just as much as transactions and jobs you complete. Its a measure of your worth to society, and those who are worth more get more in return.

There are a few different Rep networks, and its not always clear which ones you should be part of, so here is a bit of a breakdown:

@-Rep: also known as "Circle @", @-Rep is used by anarchists, Barsoomians (the guys who live on Mars), Extropians (anarcho-capitalists who go in for money and property but not government/hypercorp control), Scum (kind of tribal space nomads) and Titanians (socialists who colonised Titan). Concentrate on this if you are a free-wheeling, "fight the Man!" kind of character, or a space pirate. More useful the further out to the edge of the system you go. You want the Autonomist Networking skill to go with this.

C-Rep: CivicNet rep, used by the Jovian Republic (Fascist conservatives, also known as the Junta), the Lunar-Lagrange Alliance (corp backed group that live in orbit around the Earth and want to take it back), Morningstar Constellation (The controlling government of Venus, split off from...), The Planetary Consortium (a big group of hypercorps) and many other hypercorps. Get this if you want to work with big business or government types. Its basically the opposite of @-Rep, and is more useful the closer in to the core of the system you are. You want the Hypercorp Networking skill to go with this.

E-Rep: EcoWave is used by the ecologists, the Green types and the people who want to take back earth and return it to its glorious old natural past. Get this is you are a tree loving hippie, or an uplift thats wants to go "home". You want the Ecologist Networking skill to go with this.

F-Rep: called Fame, pretty self explanatory. Socialites, artists and the media are all over this. Get it if you either want to be famous or want to be known by famous people. You want the Media Networking skill to go with this.

G-Rep: Guanxi is used by the triads (the predominant form of organised crime in the EP) and...well, all the other crims. Get this if you want to be an Al Capone type or the Wolf from Pulp Fiction. You want the Criminal Networking skill to go with this.

I-Rep: The Eye is only used by firewall. A high I-rep means people in the organisation know you, trust you and believe you when you say that the fate of humanity relies on giving you that thing you are asking for right the hell now. It wont be useful that often, but when its useful it could be the difference between everyone lives or humanity is doomed. You want the Firewall Networking skill to go with this.

R-Rep: RNA (Research Network Affiliation). Its used by all the science types, whether that's a hypercorp lab-tech or an entire Argonaut habitat (Argonauts are a science based society who have very strong beliefs about open source, shared information and so on.) Do I really need to tell you who should be getting a good dollop of R-Rep? You want the Scientists Networking skill to go with this.

Eclipse Phase

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[[Rep]]: A bit of an explanation about Rep, as its not hugely clear in the books.

=Links=
[http://www.firewall-darkcast.com/wiki/welcome-firewall-dcs-wiki| Firewall - DC's Wiki] A good guide to factions, locations, and the game in general.

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Less Quick Guides

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==Drones==

===Control Methods===

A lot of the confusion players face with drones centres on their control methods. There are, basically, three different ways to control your drones; Indirect, Direct and Jumped In.

===Indirect Control===

Indirect Control uses the drones inbuilt "dog brain" to interpret commands sent to it from the rigger. The commands have to be simple, such as "follow this man" or "shoot anyone who comes through this door", but can be chained together to form a sort of script, such as "shoot anyone who comes through this door, except for this person, until 6pm, then go to this address". The level of complexity can be best judged by thinking, "could a well trained dog understand something this simple", hence the term dog brain. Ignoring practical issues like dogs being unable to fire guns: as long as you think a dog would understand, then a drone would understand.
Of course, like dogs, drones can be easily tricked when left to think by themselves too, but we will get to that later.
The commands themselves are sent to the drone as messages, like emails, which the drone then carries out the best it can. Because the drone is carrying out these commands, its stats are used for any tests that are needed.

Advantages: You don't need to keep in wireless range with the drone throughout. Once it has its command, it can happily pootle off and do its thing. This means you can send drones in to wireless-inhibited areas, or outside of your broadcast range, or even send them off with their wireless disabled (I'll go into why you might want to later). Of course, if you use the fact that the device doesn't need its wireless, you wont be able to get live video or audio streams from it, but you can always record.

Disadvantages: Smart as they may be for machines, they are still stupid compared to an actual person. A drones dog-brain can be tricked much easier than a human, and they react to the unexpected poorly, often by simply ignoring it.

===Direct Control===

Direct control is like using a real world RC vehicle. Usually done through AR, the rigger will have a set of virtual buttons and joysticks and the like that they use to manually guide the drone. Because the rigger is issuing commands to the device in real time, two way communication is needed. The rigger is constantly sending commands to the drone, and the drone is constantly sending video, sound and possibly other information back to the rigger.

Advantages: You can use your own stats for tests, rather than the drones stats. You are harder to confuse than a drone ( I hope!). You can control the drone whilst still running about and doing things yourself.

Disadvantages: Although you can switch between which one you are controlling pretty quickly, you can only actually control one at a time. Its also reliant on a proper wireless signal, so you cant send drones into wireless dead-spots unless you are going with them.

===Jumping In===

Jumping in is the term used for using your control rig to virtually put you into the device. Jumping in is like you are possessing the drone; you see and hear from its sensors, and moving it around is as easy and intuitive as moving your real body around. This gives some obvious advantages over the other methods of control, and is something that sets a proper rigger apart from a simple hacker with a drone. In game this is represented by some major dice pool modifiers. You can further increase these modifiers by "running hot": taking off the safety measures from the simsense to get that little bit extra performance. This is not without risks though, as the feedback caused by a drone being damaged whilst hot rigging can cause physical damage to the riggers real body.

Advantages: By far the most control over the drone, with some impressive dice pool modifiers to reflect this. This can make a rigger hot-rigging a combat drone a lethal weapon.

Disadvantages: Like direct control, you need two-way communication with your drone to do this, and you can only jump in one drone at a time. Also, this is the only form of rigging where your real body is in any immediate danger.

===Security===

Like with cyber implants, an often-overlooked element to drone rigging is security. Unless you intend to ride your drones into battle, you will need to be communicating with them via wireless, whatever form of control you opt for. Because of this, enemy hackers are going to be as much of a risk to you as enemy combatants: Ok, so the big troll with the autocannon might blow your fancy combat crawler to pieces, but the sneaky hacker in the building next door could take your drone over and kill all your mates with it. There can be few things more embarrassing than being shot with your own guns.

So what can you do about it? Well, first off, make sure that you are using the right control method. If you are sending the drone off to do a specific task and come back, why not indirectly control it, and get it to turn off its wireless entirely until its finished? A hacker cant hack it if there is no way of communicating with it. Of course, a lot of the time, this approach isn't practical. The enemy hacker can't communicate with it till its finished, but then neither can you. So what if you need to be in direct control?

Well, this all comes down to electronic warfare. For starters, as an absolute basic necessity, you need to slave your drones to your comlink. In laymans terms, this means that the drone will only take commands from your comlink, and any hacker wanting to mess around with it will need to either hack your comlink first, or spoof your comcode, so the device thinks the commands are coming from you when they are not. This is such a basic thing, and there is no reason why you wouldn't want to do this, that I assume that you have unless you specifically say otherwise.

The next step is encryption. Either buy the encryption software yourself, or get a friendly hacker to sort it out for you. Encrypting the communications between your comlink and your drone stop people spying on the data traffic, and mean that anyone wanting to spoof commands to your drone also needs to decrypt your communications. Of course, in the world of Shadowrun even the fanciest of encryption can be beaten given very little time, but that time can be all you need to be alerted of the hackers presence and do something about it.

The next level of nastiness, program wise, is called a databomb. Like the encryption, this is either bought yourself or installed by a hacker, and sits in the communication link between your drone and your 'link. When the nasty hacker gets past your encryption, and manages to spoof your link, there is a chance of him setting off the databomb.

The final level of program evils you can do, is to install ice. These programs can be as simple as tracing the hackers location, to as nasty as the Black Ice that copies itself to the hackers comlink, sends itself to everyone on the hackers address book, and kills them all with simsense feedback. Nasty.

Of course, the most simple security measure is the Electronic Warfare skill. With this, you can mask the signal of your drones so evil hackers cant find it. They cant hack what they cant see.

==Possession==

Possession rules are slightly different to normal spirit summoning rules, and in good SR tradition are splattered across two different books. In an effort to make it less of a headache, here are the steps to follow. This all presumes you don't have a bound spirit. If you do, skip the actual summoning bit and go straight to the possession itself.

====Select a Spirit====

The first step is to select which of the 6 spirit types available to your tradition you are going to summon. These are detailed in your tradition description, and cover basic themes like Combat or Manipulation. Each tradition has a different selection of spirits available to them.

====Choose the Force of the spirit====

The next step is to choose what force you want to summon. You can summon with a force up to twice your Magic rating, but anything over your magic rating means the Drain you will be resisting is Physical rather than Stun, just like with spells.

In its most basic terms; higher force = better spirit = harder summon.

====Summoning Test====

Now comes the actual summoning test itself. This is an opposed test, with the summoners Magic + Summoning skill against the spirits Force. 0 or less net hits for the summoner means that the summon has failed, and no spirit turns up. A positive number of net hits for the summoner is the number of tasks the spirit has to complete before it is allowed to clear off back to the astral.

====Resist Drain====

The drain test is similar to normal spellcasting. It is resisted with different attributes depending on your tradition, and the amount of drain to resist is equal to the number of hits the spirit scored in the summoning test, regardless of whether the summon was successful or not. Yes, that means you can utterly fail to summon a spirit, and still have to resist drain.

The drain has a minimum value of 2, even if the spirit cast one or even no hits.

Often, the dice pool the summoner is using is vastly greater than the amount of drain that needs resisting, so unless its dramatically important (for instance, if 1 point of stun would make the summoner pass out), the summoner can use the dice substitution rule, where they can trade 4 dice for 1 automatic hit. This can mean the summoner doesn't need to roll at all for drain.

====Possession====

Once you have the spirit summoned and owing you tasks, you move on to the fun bit: possession. For this guide, we are presuming the summoner is going to let the spirit possess themselves. This means there is no test required. If you are possessing someone or something else, you will need a successful possession test (page 101 of Street Magic).

Once the spirit has possessed you, you get the following changes:

Physical stats: These become the hosts + the spirits Force
Mental stats: These are equal to the spirits mental stats (note: these are based on, but not necessarily equal to the Force)
Only the spirits skills and powers can be used. Skills are rated at the spirits force.

Although the summoner is still "in there", they cant do much other than talk to the spirit. Because of that, the only skills they can use are knowledge skills.

====Tasks====

A spirit will stay until either it has ran out of tasks, the summoner dismisses it, it gets banished, or the sun comes up/goes down (depending on if it was summoned in the day or the night).

A task is generally either a combat instruction ("fight those guys", "protect this person", "guard this door"), an activity ("forge this sword", "bash down that wall", "Carry this heavy thing"), or a use of a spirit power. Small things, like walking about, or relaying messages from the summoner to the people in the real world are not counted as tasks. Just like in Aladdin, you cant cheat to get more; you cant just say "obey this person" and get free tasks.

Shadowrun NPCs

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==Stinky==

"Intelligent" ghoul that runs a specialised cleaning service for shadowrunners, including body disposal.

==Dae==

Stripper at Ticklers, has acted as a Johnson for the team in the past. Korean origin. Used to be a "bonded entertainer" for Renraku.

==Kaz==

Smartly dressed thin Troll, and the current employer of the team.

==Hanzo Shotozumi==

Head of the Shotozumi-gumi, arguably the top Yakuza man in Seattle.

==Sensei Kitsune==

Mysterious yoda-like fella who sorts out problems for the Yakuza. Hes kind of a big deal.

==Caine==

Rough looking street gang leader, runs with a big group of mainly orcs and trolls. Threatened the group, who responded by running away.

=="Pappa P" Pastukhov==

Jolly russian proffesional Johnson, works from a European restaurant.
Always found there, eating wierd food.
Has excellent reputation with runners.
Almost certainly Corp Financed.

==Violeta==

Quiet orc with robo-arms, helps out with Pappa. Good looking (for an orc), but a bit cold.

==Mr Tashima==

The teams first employer, enthusiastic but a bit unproffesional. Hired the team to steal a magical mask.

==Ashton==

Large troll, and Tashima's bodyguard.

==Dr Stephen Sanders==

Slightly creepy mage that cured Chopper of the ghoul virus for a sample of his blood.

Shadowrun NPCs

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==Dae==

Stripper at Ticklers, has acted as a Johnson for the team in the past. Korean origin. Used to be a "bonded entertainer" for Renraku.

==Kaz==

Smartly dressed thin Troll, and the current employer of the team.

==Hanzo Shotozumi==

Head of the Shotozumi-gumi, arguably the top Yakuza man in Seattle.

==Sensei Kitsune==

Mysterious yoda-like fella who sorts out problems for the Yakuza. Hes kind of a big deal.

==Caine==

Rough looking street gang leader, runs with a big group of mainly orcs and trolls. Threatened the group, who responded by running away.

=="Pappa P" Pastukhov==

Jolly russian proffesional Johnson, works from a European restaurant.
Always found there, eating wierd food.
Has excellent reputation with runners.
Almost certainly Corp Financed.

==Violeta==

Quiet orc with robo-arms, helps out with Pappa. Good looking (for an orc), but a bit cold.

==Mr Tashima==

The teams first employer, enthusiastic but a bit unproffesional. Hired the team to steal a magical mask.

==Ashton==

Large troll, and Tashima's bodyguard.

==Dr Stephen Sanders==

Slightly creepy mage that cured Chopper of the ghoul virus for a sample of his blood.

NPC's

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#REDIRECT [[Shadowrun NPC's]]

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===Re-work===

Hello! I'll be periodically tearing bits from this page and putting them in a sensible place. I think a category for '''Personalities''' would be fitting, for all the different characters we have at this place. I also think Dejects mom should have a spot in this area. Games we play will be put into the main games category, and untill I find out how to nicely format the main page, it will stay as this vague FAQ, which tells enough at first-glance. Ta!

[[User:Grimmie|Grimmie]] 13:19, 7 August 2006 (PDT)

== Main Page ==

I'm moved a copy of the main page to [[FAQ]] for safe-keeping to avoid losing content already there due to screwups
[[User:Stapleballs|Stapleballs]] 16:04, 7 August 2006 (PDT)--

Battlefield 2 entries could probably need updating as it's not played that much anymore, or is it? --[[User:Spoodie|Spoodie]] 09:32, 18 February 2007 (PST)

== Main page disappearance ==

Someone eat the main page? It's lost 90% of itself - Panic over

==Terminology==
Can someone define 'beards', it's origin and referral to people who play RPG's and RTS's? [[User:Grimmie|Grimmie]]

== Cleanup ==

Ive tidied stuff away a bit, putting things into catagories. Every time I came here the main page gave me seizures. A lot of the info thats been tidied away is still massively in need of editing, adding to and updating, but at least you can see where it all is now.
--[[User:Joose|Joose]] 06:03, 19 April 2010 (PDT)

testes--[[User:Joose|Joose]] 06:58, 19 April 2010 (PDT)

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