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« Reply #30 on: <05-05-14/1421:46> »
Seriously?  Every vehicle, every person, is captured on some camera or another every hour of every day, so long as they're moving through anything that isn't a Z-zone.  The issue is, and for the most part in SR the issue has always been, the sheer amount of data the people have to plow through in order to get your ass.  So it comes down to whether or not the corporation is able to a) get the data, b) sift through the massive amounts of data, and c) care enough to do A and B.  GridGuide isn't owned by Knight Errant, and though they undoubtedly have a 'pursuit of suspect' agreement, there's still going to be a metric ton of stuff to go through.

For the most part, though, I tend to think that unless you committed some brutal crime or another, so long as you were professional about everything, there's only so far that the corp you hit is going to go - whether willing to go, or able to go, because GridGuide &c. isn't going to just fork information over for the asking.  Information is valuable, after all, and is catching your ass within the 3 days it's going to take you to unload the stuff you got going to be worth the cost of catching you?  The 20¥ per request for the data from GridGuide, and after all, backtracking someone is going to take a lot more than two or three requests?  Etc. etc. And if it isn't Knight Errant after your sorry (truck), then so long as you got off that corp's property, the truck is probably free and clear.

For a corporation, catching a shadowrunning team is all about the bottom line.  Will it be better for their bottom line in the long run to hunt down and blow your team away, or would it be more expensive to do so?  Your job is to make it simply not worthwhile to find and frag your bod, whether by making it incredibly difficult to do, or by making the materiel expenditures and death benefits for the kill teams sent after you far too expensive.
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« Reply #31 on: <05-05-14/1434:57> »
Seriously?  Every vehicle, every person, is captured on some camera or another every hour of every day, so long as they're moving through anything that isn't a Z-zone.  The issue is, and for the most part in SR the issue has always been, the sheer amount of data the people have to plow through in order to get your ass.  So it comes down to whether or not the corporation is able to a) get the data, b) sift through the massive amounts of data, and c) care enough to do A and B.  GridGuide isn't owned by Knight Errant, and though they undoubtedly have a 'pursuit of suspect' agreement, there's still going to be a metric ton of stuff to go through.

For the most part, though, I tend to think that unless you committed some brutal crime or another, so long as you were professional about everything, there's only so far that the corp you hit is going to go - whether willing to go, or able to go, because GridGuide &c. isn't going to just fork information over for the asking.  Information is valuable, after all, and is catching your ass within the 3 days it's going to take you to unload the stuff you got going to be worth the cost of catching you?  The 20¥ per request for the data from GridGuide, and after all, backtracking someone is going to take a lot more than two or three requests?  Etc. etc. And if it isn't Knight Errant after your sorry (truck), then so long as you got off that corp's property, the truck is probably free and clear.

For a corporation, catching a shadowrunning team is all about the bottom line.  Will it be better for their bottom line in the long run to hunt down and blow your team away, or would it be more expensive to do so?  Your job is to make it simply not worthwhile to find and frag your bod, whether by making it incredibly difficult to do, or by making the materiel expenditures and death benefits for the kill teams sent after you far too expensive.
The team extracted a young girl from a low-medium security area without firing a shot, and with no injuries or destruction of property occurring on either side. Alarms were triggered, and the exit was a bit sloppy, but could have gone way worse.
Considering that after reading what you just wrote, i almost feel comfortable just chilling and doing nothing. Almost.
A new paint job would be nice anyway...
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« Reply #32 on: <05-05-14/1438:17> »
I'd say we need the rigger book so we can get electrochromic paint, but we all know what happens when the rigger book gets released.
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« Reply #33 on: <05-05-14/1503:17> »
I'd say we need the rigger book so we can get electrochromic paint, but we all know what happens when the rigger book gets released.

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Serioiusly, what does happen when a rigger book gets released?
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« Reply #34 on: <05-05-14/1531:38> »
I'd say we need the rigger book so we can get electrochromic paint, but we all know what happens when the rigger book gets released.

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Serioiusly, what does happen when a rigger book gets released?

The rigger book is always the last book released in an edition.  Rigger Black Book was followed by SR2; Rigger 2 was followed by SR3; Rigger 3 was followed by Rigger 3 Revised was followed by SR4.
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« Reply #35 on: <05-05-14/1542:49> »
Wasn't Arsenal the SR4 rigger book? I've borrowed it a couple times from someone in the group I'm playing with as reference material for that story I'm writing in the fanfiction section. That book is pretty heavy on vehicle mods and weapons that would work well in vehicles.
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« Reply #36 on: <05-05-14/1555:57> »
It has a decent amount of gear, but in terms of actually being Rigger 4 (eqv.)...meh.  Tons of rules for modifying vehicles and new vehicle stats, but not much on the rules side of things otherwise.  Rigger 3, on the other hand, had the type of hyper-specific rules (including an entirely new type of rigger) that Shadowrun players have come to expect.

People used to joke about the refusal to release Rigger 4 as Catalyst's grand plan to keep 4th edition alive.
http://www.shadowrun.com/forums/discussion/25891/rigger-4-at-last/p1

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« Reply #37 on: <05-05-14/1654:54> »
The team extracted a young girl from a low-medium security area without firing a shot, and with no injuries or destruction of property occurring on either side. Alarms were triggered, and the exit was a bit sloppy, but could have gone way worse.
Considering that after reading what you just wrote, i almost feel comfortable just chilling and doing nothing. Almost.
A new paint job would be nice anyway...

As you said, a new paint job on the truck and you should be okay.  Maybe invest in some chameleon coating for the truck, that way you don't have to repaint every time.  Just switch to another paint scheme and your good to go.
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« Reply #38 on: <05-16-14/0118:15> »
I just bought Stolen Souls and it seems to contain some the equipment described above, at least in connection to extractions.
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« Reply #39 on: <05-16-14/0511:47> »
I'd say we need the rigger book so we can get electrochromic paint, but we all know what happens when the rigger book gets released.

A dragon gets assassinated?

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« Reply #40 on: <05-16-14/0605:45> »
I just bought Stolen Souls and it seems to contain some the equipment described above, at least in connection to extractions.
Yup. Chameleon coating, Spoof Chips, Morphing License Plates, Smuggling Compartments.
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