Is there space for NetRunners in game?

[gregski]

well for instance you could do this matrix style. Neo can see the world as numbers. So if you already have the city done you could apply some filter to make it look like you are moving in the cyberspace. The netrunning would boil down to finding some things in this new world while figuring out how to deal with certain obstacles. You could even bend some rules of the reality (again like in matrix) but the problem with the obstacles is - few agents Smith wouldnt probably do the job. Therefore a need for something more clever.

This.

They could strip the actual city from it's external layers and leave just a "skeleton" of buldings, streets etc while adding elements specific for netrunning.

And about moving - after leaving the cyberspace you would end up in the same place as you started netrunning, simple as that.

 

[saburoarasaka]

Well, there is a reason to have a netrunner moving with the party and not sitting in his basement: Combat Netrunning. When you have to assault a fortress that is too well protected to be hacked from the outside... you hack it from the inside. You break into and do your runs directly from the intranet, bypassing all the external ICE. That and remote controlling cameras, automated guns, doors, by directly connecting to them instead of hacking them from your appartment. That way you can have a Netrunner that shares the frontlines with the rest of Solos/Nomads. That's what we used to do in p'n'p to integrate both worlds.

 

[blarty]

Everyone can handle a gun, but a Solo is a master at it, similarly not everyone can sing as well as a Rocker, but it doesn't mean it'll stop them trying, so why can't the same be said for Netrunning, depending on how brain dances are done tech wise, neural implants for interface jacking could very well be similar, so why can't everyone Netrun but to be a master at it, you have to invest the time and skill (points) into it. This goes back to primary and secondary role choices and skill access

 

[kobalt01]

Ok then. Another question - is this going to be single or multiplayer game? Solo can have his brain burned out just by accessing net and same way netruner have big chances to just die in first shooting. that's why I cant imagine netrunner running around street alone - as we see all recent RPG games, player is running alone, sometimes got handy helper from game NPC's. This game could do as MMO as you can throw all known classes and net would look like proper net, described in Cyberpunk 2020. You guys are forgetting that Net was as dangerus and deadly and crowded as streets of Night City. If this would be just displayed as minigame or city skeleton ... it will loose all magic. You can look on this like on creating fantasy wold but without magic, you still end with horses and swords
but no dragons.