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<blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8837620" data-attributes="member: 27996"><p>Absolutely baffling that CPRed does not share the same universe as the videogame.</p><p></p><p>A total headscratcher why Pondsmith would do a separate timeline for RED.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>^THIS^</p><p></p><p>His review highlighting the rules inconsistencies was spot on.</p><p></p><p>When you are having to houserule <em>obvious</em> holes in the rules from the jump; it quickly becomes obvious that little to no playtesting was done on this game. Dude...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>CP2020 & Shadow run were the first commercially successful RPG's in this genre. First mover status reigns supreme in RPG land. Supreme.</p><p></p><p>People play the game with the biggest network effect because it makes it easier to get a group together.</p><p></p><p>And CP2020/RED is still it. Still.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All the other RPG's Vincent55 listed have perfectly suitable settings.</p><p></p><p>But CP was first. First mover + Good Enough = No can Defend.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If anyone wants to know how a megacorp would actually work / look like in real life - I recommend you read up on the British East India Company.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The British government basically let a private corporation with it's own army and navy run roughshod over a continent for over a century.</p><p></p><p>In a cyberpunk alternate timeline there could easily be a scenario where the US government hands over administration of certain states/ territorites/cities to similarly styled megacorporation(s).</p><p></p><p>i.e. The <em>Taxes</em> Must Flow.</p><p></p><p>So long as Tax Revenue keeps coming in at a suitable level, and "order is maintained" - the megacorp(s) is free to earn a profit to compensate themselves for their "administrative costs"...</p><p></p><p>To make it interesting these <s>fiefdoms</s> "administrative areas", could be assigned to newly formed corporate conglomerates (which are made up of independent megacorps not under one corporate umbrella.) That then compete with each other for political power on the governing 'Corporate Council' of a particular territory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaeger, post: 8837620, member: 27996"] Absolutely baffling that CPRed does not share the same universe as the videogame. A total headscratcher why Pondsmith would do a separate timeline for RED. ^THIS^ His review highlighting the rules inconsistencies was spot on. When you are having to houserule [I]obvious[/I] holes in the rules from the jump; it quickly becomes obvious that little to no playtesting was done on this game. Dude... CP2020 & Shadow run were the first commercially successful RPG's in this genre. First mover status reigns supreme in RPG land. Supreme. People play the game with the biggest network effect because it makes it easier to get a group together. And CP2020/RED is still it. Still. All the other RPG's Vincent55 listed have perfectly suitable settings. But CP was first. First mover + Good Enough = No can Defend. If anyone wants to know how a megacorp would actually work / look like in real life - I recommend you read up on the British East India Company. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India[/URL] The British government basically let a private corporation with it's own army and navy run roughshod over a continent for over a century. In a cyberpunk alternate timeline there could easily be a scenario where the US government hands over administration of certain states/ territorites/cities to similarly styled megacorporation(s). i.e. The [I]Taxes[/I] Must Flow. So long as Tax Revenue keeps coming in at a suitable level, and "order is maintained" - the megacorp(s) is free to earn a profit to compensate themselves for their "administrative costs"... To make it interesting these [S]fiefdoms[/S] "administrative areas", could be assigned to newly formed corporate conglomerates (which are made up of independent megacorps not under one corporate umbrella.) That then compete with each other for political power on the governing 'Corporate Council' of a particular territory. [/QUOTE]
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