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I find that the concept of enshittification has really helped my facility designs for ShadowRun.
I tend to over engineer mega corporate defenses, but if I then go through a process of figuring out where costs could be cut, it significantly improves the playability and the immersion.
Who can cover two job roles at once? Who hasn’t been replaced because of the hiring freeze? What systems have not received regular maintenance?
@erich The early editions of Shon Harris' cissp textbook are great for Shadowrun. They go into defensive landscaping, facility architecture, and layered access controls in enough detail that you can design a corporate facility that feels real and is fairly challenging without being a tpk.
@erich Very good point, and an hilarious one at that. :) Plus, it's not like megacorps do care about employee safety or public safety, they just need to make it look like they do, and there is Horizon for that. Above the out of service turret, you'll probably see a big sign reading "Renraku - ¥1B in investment for burnout prevention all over the world!", or something like that. ^^
@erich this is the kind of advice GMs and Worldbuilders need.
@erich Thanks a lot! That's a facet of @pluralistic's #Enshittification that I didn't realize! It explains so well how shadowrunners can survive and even thrive!
@erich yes and also, how big is the gap between "here are the security measures we tell employees to take" and "here is what they actually do"?
For a simple example, tailgating/piggybacking.
@erich Very much this. When I was younger I assumed that corporations would be competently run, that they in fact earned their money. Now, looking over just the history I've personally witnessed, I can see that this is overwhelmingly not so, that it's mostly old men failing upwards, forcing younger men to do the job of three while earning less than their fathers made. Enshitification is why runners can get in in the first place, and why the corps can't seem to stop them.