11-14-2019, 06:18 AM | #81 |
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Re: Sci-Fi Police of the year 2049 AD
You folk have been having fun...
By a curious coincidence, I too am thinking of running a game set in thirty years or so. The difference being, I'm going for a proto AtE setting (atomic and biological weaponry) and my PCs... well, they'll all be petty criminals. So, I've been looking at this from an antagonistic angle, namely circumventing the police of thirty years time. I really like the idea of survellience drones, given that all my PCs will start out with tracking anklettes. This could make it difficult to covertly meet or interact with particular people, to the point of being electronically tethered to a small area.
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The first thought that comes to mind for me regarding survellience drones is using something akin to VR RC racing drones to disable the police device. Ramming, harpoon with an EMP warhead, or a pneumatic miniaturised version of Schräge Musik, whatever...
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11-14-2019, 06:38 AM | #82 | |
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The reason you do that? It lets them know that anyone who knew them is going to be SCARED to even help them. Just a thought. ;) |
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11-14-2019, 08:06 AM | #83 |
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Re: Sci-Fi Police of the year 2049 AD
My game will be the same date, but the setting will be very different. Virtual footprints aren't very AtE. I'm hoping they focus on clean water, food, fighting cannibals etc.
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11-18-2019, 06:20 AM | #84 | ||
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A drone could be made "tougher" by making it more imposing through the use of bright lights, a large facade, and powerful speakers to thunder a policeman's orders or to sound the characteristic siren. In our instinctual brain, we register these things as power, and a commanding presence may be the key to making the drones work. We still need a solution for doors, and I doubt a flying drone will be able to make effective arrests.
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11-18-2019, 06:52 AM | #85 |
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At least in the USA, there are rather important constitutional concerns about having a drone arrest a suspect, which is why I think that police drones may be limited to surveillance, immobilization, crowd control, and remote sniping. After all, a police officer can arrest a tangled individual just as easily if a drone tangled them or their partner tangled them.
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11-18-2019, 07:54 AM | #86 | |
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I'm not sure how a drone firing off tangler and having the suspect sit there for an hour while the officer finished his business and drove over would be viewed. At some point fire safety or some other practical will kick in. I heavily favor the Drone being remotely operated by the officer and using his voice and judgement over an AI. It makes a lot of things simplier, even if it requires more work by the officer. Who is quite possibly sitting in his car operating these things while the vehicle takes him from place to place automatically.
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11-18-2019, 08:09 AM | #87 | |
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11-18-2019, 08:43 AM | #88 |
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On one Covert Affairs Annie Walker was on the lam from the PRC in Hong Kong. The headquarters had had her in interrogation long enough to get a photo so they put it on the cities cell service.
What about a more advanced kind of "hue-and-cry" app that would elaborate that idea?
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11-18-2019, 09:04 AM | #89 |
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I'd reserve "drone" to mean (by definition) a remotely-operated machine under the supervision of an officer, while using "robot" to describe a similar but autonomous machine. If the officer's back in the precinct operating the drone, the mere distance seems like a minor difference with the officer being "on site", but the drone being around a corner or inside a building that the officer hasn't yet entered.
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11-18-2019, 09:20 AM | #90 | |
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A "robot" I'd see as having a step higher level of intelligence, although it's hard to define where the line would be, as they would also need authorisation to carry out various tasks.
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