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« Reply #45 on: <09-11-10/0812:32> »
Novi... Not exactly the Mean streets. ;)

Yes, but Detroit is. And Inkster. I wouldn't be all too comfortable walking around Redford, Ann Arbor, hell, even Wayne alone at night. XD

Then again, I'm super paranoid, so whatever.

That also makes me wonder, What the Detroit plex is like?
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« Reply #46 on: <09-11-10/1107:00> »
Quote from: Sixth World Almanac, p 194
    A prosperous metroplex in the Great Lakes Region, Detroit is a model city for corporate involvement balanced by local government. With the global headquarters for Ares Macrotechnology located there, and the recently finished eight-meter-tall wall surrounding the metroplex, Detroit is one of UCAS’ safest cities. Following the closure of Chicago to civilian traffic in 2055, the metroplex absorbed nearly a million refugees and offered them new work. The area has been a source of industry and manufacture for over a century, and continues to be a hub for UCAS construction of automobiles, aeronautics, and military equipment.
     Despite the local nickname of “Aresville,” Detroit has a smaller percentage of extra-territorial space per square kilometer than many other metroplexes. The nickname actually comes from the corporation’s investment into the local economy. Ares and its subsidiaries fund work outreach programs, to offer jobs to any adult UCAS citizen living within the metroplex boundary who wants one. A census taken in August of 2070 showed less than a two-percent unemployment rate within the metroplex—substantially lower than the nationwide rate of seven percent.

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« Reply #47 on: <09-11-10/1950:34> »
Whoah. Can this actually happen? Please? That'd be nice.
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« Reply #48 on: <09-11-10/2102:07> »
I'm working on it... Takes a while to engineer the code for a Nanosecond buyout of Microsoft, Disney and RJ Reynolds altogether.

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« Reply #49 on: <09-12-10/0329:56> »
Wiz. I wonder how far down Motown extends. This is the first bit of data I've seen about it.
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« Reply #50 on: <09-12-10/0334:48> »
Thats the only thing I am afraid of regarding my hometown and Shadowrun. See, I live west of munich. I am like right around the fragging corner from Dachau. You know, Concentration Camp Dachau...
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« Reply #51 on: <09-12-10/1141:29> »
Bad mojo, Doc.

I'm from back east. I'm (fearfully) waiting for the Manhattan earthquake. It still amazes me that there have been NO precautions taken, even though it is factual that the East Coast is on a fault line and there hasn't been a major quake in centuries. Granted, the fault is way more stable than San Andreas, but still...

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« Reply #52 on: <10-07-10/1648:24> »
I've been living in the San Francisco Bay area for a little more than six years now.  So my campaign runs in the "San Francisco Bay Metroploitan Zone" which covers the San Francisco Sprawl, the Oakland Sprawl, and the San Jose Sprawl (with a bunch of subsprawls like Diablo Canyon, Marin, Hayward/Fremont, and the little stretch of sprawl from San Bruno south to Palo Alto).

With three sprawls sort of interlinked, it makes it easy to showcase the entire strata of life in the 2070s.  I also get to add the aftermath of the IJS occupation, and border tensions with Tir Tairngire.  So far my runners have been focuses primarily on activities in Oakland, with a couple of small runs into San Jose.

Hopefully I'll sieze the opportunity to send them into San Quentin Prison for a nice visit with the really hard fraggers locked up in there.

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« Reply #53 on: <10-07-10/1722:46> »
have run around the world but the pensacola/mobile plex is about the area that i call home. Actually i live rather close to the local NAN border, (you know the one around Eagle AFB) The Game i'm fixing to start will also run around the world
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« Reply #54 on: <10-07-10/1758:32> »
Usually Seattle, because I can make up streets and such and none of my group can call me on it. I have tried games in Omaha which is packed with military, and Kaiserslautern, Germany home of MET2000 (my hometown) which is another city my group can't call me on.

We've been doing missions lately so Denver and Manhatten can be added to the list but I don't gm those.
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« Reply #55 on: <10-07-10/2123:16> »
I'm in Summertown TN right now, but I'm my home city is Eugene OR. I think Eugene would be awesome to have Shadowruns in. Unfortunately it's in elven territory.

I also think Neo Tokyo would be reaaally awesome to play in. If real life was more like Shadowrun, that's probly where I'd want to live. They carry swords there as fashion and guns are restricted. Sign me up for that futuristic society.

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« Reply #56 on: <10-08-10/0956:06> »
Primarily been using a Seattle-based campaign ever since my first runs back in '89. Recently rebooted a new campaign with a new group of runners - some old friends but the majority were entirely new to the Sixth World.

As for my home turf - UK, half-way between Birmingham and London, but I've only done the prep-work on a full UK campaign. Too many other exotic locales to use that grab my interest. Besides, setting campaigns abroad used to be the safe bet on your players not being able to call in their personal knowledge over yours as GM. This darn internet thingy (& Google Maps) has seriopusly dented the GM-shalt-know-All myth. Still, helps me realise the locations more than I ever could afford without having unlimited iternational travel funds (wouldn't that be nice, now? ;D).

Current campaign's street date is early August 2055, and they've just headed off east to the Windy City for a job and a delta-clinic appointment. Yeah, I've got me a backlog load of sourcebooks that are gonna get used Terms... ;D

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« Reply #57 on: <10-08-10/1927:58> »
I'm in Summertown TN right now, but I'm my home city is Eugene OR. I think Eugene would be awesome to have Shadowruns in. Unfortunately it's in elven territory.

I also think Neo Tokyo would be reaaally awesome to play in. If real life was more like Shadowrun, that's probly where I'd want to live. They carry swords there as fashion and guns are restricted. Sign me up for that futuristic society.

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« Reply #58 on: <10-18-10/1520:46> »
I have never used the Twin Cities for a run, I have never thought of anything terribly cool to do with it, it strikes me that all the biotech and cumputer firms would just turn it into a big corporate enclave.

My current and my first Shadowrun games have been based in Seattle, although I have run games based out of DC and San Francisco in the past.  Of course there have been trips to the Middle East, the Ukraine German, Japan and small islands in the Pacific.

I have been a player in games based out of Denver and there was a short lived game where the PCs were NAN Border Partol/ Smuggler hunters based out of Minot i believe.
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« Reply #59 on: <10-19-10/0441:09> »
My group lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, mostly around San Jose. We have two groups of runners. One is based out of San Francisco and travels around the world a lot. The other group is in Los Angeles and doesn't get out much.

I grew up near Detroit. Funny how Damien Knight likes my home towns. ;) Back in the day, we used Seattle instead of the local big city.

 

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