Shadowrun is still my favorite game setting after all these years. If nothing else for the combat style alone. Everyone basically has 10 "hitpoints", everything is skill based, and even if a character doesn't have a particular skill (say pistols) he…
Your post touches on a concept for an MMO that I'm fleshing out (and will be for awhile). It includes faction based technological advancement.
Technology:
An example would be Metal Smelting. Once "unlocked" by a faction, all members of that fact…