Apartments in Gold
Consort with unsavory individuals in meatspace!

Idea:

Introduce a new area in Gold that has rentable apartments. This place is typical corporate brutalism. Buzzing fluorescent lights, raw concrete walls, no decorations, only sterile sensors. Judges love it, mixers feel watched, corpies feel "almost there".

The target audience of this housing accomodation is service mixers who work in Gold and junior corpies who have not been "elevated" to Green yet. In order to make Green more exclusive for corpies who have earned the merit of living in a safe, clean sector.

As such, junior corpies are not immediately welcome in Green at the moment they're hired. This place is not fancy at all, think of a Krakeon but right in Gold, where judges, mixers and low level corpies (juniors or interns) come together in a clash of social classes.

This new apartment building is only slightly better than the mix alternatives. Not fancy enough for the average shithead mixer, but good enough for aspiring corpies with subsidized housing. Think of soviet panel housing.

Both have strong points.

I like the concept of making the class divide even more intense with layers and layers, since that's the half the theme of cyberpunk to begin with.

What if as a start, the megacorps forced probationary employees / fresh juniors to live in cubes and we see how it goes from there?

I personally am a big fan of furthering the class divide topside, senior corps being highly snobby to their juniors, belittling them and making fun of them for being wagies ect. I feel that's how it was supposed to be between corpies and service mixers, but there's not enough competition between the two to create agitation or conflict.

If you're a corpie, treat service mixers worse! (imo)

I think it's questionable wether there will be a reduced risk for attack.

It's significantly easier to wait somewhere on gold, like gangers from red sector hanging out in building lobby of whatever ect (also because of help crime and thematically less security). It would also give more things for corpsec to do, for example if a junior peeks out there door and sees a dangerous looking mixer outside corpsec could intervene or hire someone else to go and fetch that corpie.

But I do agree that it would make the levs highly underutilized and I find that a crucial part of the theme and experience for me personally, so unless that can be addressed i'd be against it.

The idea behind this thread is to incentivize cross sector gameplay and change the divide, because right now it feels like corpies and mixers play entirely different games and live in isolated silos apart from each other, and there is NO reason for them to interact with each other unless they are "thematically inclined".

Are you sure there's no incentive for corpies and Mixers to interact, villa? I interact with a lot of corpies for biz.