<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175379.msg8331374#msg8331374">Quote from: kckolbe on 03-06-2013, 02:47:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sorry, but I have to ask this.  Are there cell phones in this damn game, or pagers at least?  It seems like comms only go to ships and houses in Firefly. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Indeed, most of the communication was done by radio, including a few very small hand-held radios.  They didn't appear to be operated like telephones.  However ....<br/><br/>In<em>Heart of Gold</em>(why do all my references keep going back to the episode with the prostitutes?) there was a scene in which it looked like Rance got a call and whipped out this little device which could be a futuristic cell phone.<br/><br/>So I'm gonna say yes on cell phones.  However ....<br/><br/>They're too expensive for any of us to own, and if you own one, local calls (plant-wide or moon-wide) only.  Only the super rich can afford the phones that hit the towers that send signals to other planets.  And remember the lag time in communications?  Who wants to listen to the phone ring five minutes before it's picked up on the first ring on the other end?  Best to just use the cortex.<br/><br/>And while every cell phone will work on any core planet, and some border planets ... on other border planets you have to subscribe to an additional service specific to that planet or moon.  On the rim, forget it.  (In Rance's case, he had his own little system set up and available only to<em>his</em>people.<br/><br/>Oh, and that cell phone you somehow got your hands on two years ago?  Obsolete now.  Yeah, just like in real life.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175379.msg8330966#msg8330966">Quote from: icecradle on 03-06-2013, 01:37:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Ky's brother's crew might have worked with/known Mona or Kaela before. I'm happy to work something out =)<br/>I'm just eager to get started to be honest and am resisting the urge to just pop Ky in the bar and have him try to pickpocket Mort &gt;&gt;<br/><br/>ETA: or maybe that would work. XD<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Good ideas.  Maybe if we're gonna do something involving another player (like the pickpocket idea) it might be best to discuss it with the other player in PM's so we can decide how it works out.  Not that I want to have everything we do scripted beforehand, but ....<br/><br/>