Neon-sim cyberpunk city

Neon-sim adds a rain-slicked corporate city: districts and security zones, surveillance devices, hacking and intrusion, a street economy with heat and wanted levels, cybernetic implants, and fixer missions with corporate intrigue. It leans on existing systems rather than rebuilding them — districts use the core RegionComponent, money is the colony-sim scrip resource stack, warrants and bounties reuse dagger-sim law state, and implants can be hacked with the same intrusion tools as any terminal.

In Discord, prefix these commands with !.

This guide covers districts, surveillance, and hacking. For the street economy, cyberware, and fixer jobs, see Neon-sim streets, cyberware, and fixers.

Districts, sites, and access

Cyberpunk sites sit inside districts (named regions). A site may be public, may demand a security clearance, or may be a patrolled restricted area. Case a site first to read its security before you commit:

!case-location target_id="Arasaka lobby"

Enter a site you are cleared for (clearance level or a matching zone pass):

!enter-district target_id="Arasaka lobby"

If you lack clearance the entry is denied. You can still slip in covertly, but an unauthorized presence in a patrolled restricted area is caught on the next patrol sweep, which trips the zone alarm. At a manned checkpoint you have three options:

!show-credentials target_id="skybridge checkpoint"
!bribe-checkpoint target_id="skybridge checkpoint"
!sneak-through-checkpoint target_id="skybridge checkpoint"

Showing valid credentials or bribing the guard (with scrip) passes you openly; sneaking slips a calm checkpoint quietly but fails against an alerted guard.

Claim a safehouse as your own base of operations:

!claim-safehouse target_id="back-alley flop"

Devices and surveillance

The city watches. Cameras, sensors, and drones with surveillance coverage record unauthorized intruders that share their room, spawning evidence you will want gone. Inspect a device to read its state:

!inspect-device target_id="lobby camera"

Defeat surveillance *before* you trespass. Disabling cuts a camera entirely; looping feeds it a fake signal so it appears live but records nothing; jamming knocks out a sensor:

!disable-camera target_id="lobby camera"
!loop-camera target_id="lobby camera"
!jam-sensor target_id="motion sensor"

Sheltering in a site flagged as a blind spot also keeps you off the recording. Deploy a drone to extend your own coverage:

!deploy-drone target_id="recon drone"

If a camera already caught you, destroy the footage:

!wipe-evidence target_id="lobby camera footage"

Hacking and intrusion

Hackable devices — terminals, servers, electronic locks — have a security rating. Carry an exploit tool whose power meets or beats that rating. Scan and trace a target first:

!scan-network target_id="reception terminal"
!trace-network target_id="reception terminal"

Breach it by running an exploit, or — cleanly and silently — by using a matching credential:

!run-exploit target_id="reception terminal"
!use-credential target_id="reception terminal"

A successful exploit starts a counter-intrusion trace counting down against you; a failed one trips the local alarm. Once you are in, you can escalate privileges, install a backdoor for silent future re-entry, open a session, steal data, sabotage the system, or pop an electronic door:

!escalate-privileges target_id="reception terminal"
!install-backdoor target_id="reception terminal"
!access-terminal target_id="reception terminal"
!exfiltrate-data target_id="records server"
!sabotage-system target_id="pump controller"
!unlock-door target_id="vault maglock"

Sensitive data needs admin privileges to exfiltrate. While a trace is live, shake it or buy time before it lands and raises the alarm:

!evade-trace
!spoof-identity

Example run

!case-location target_id="records office"
!loop-camera target_id="office camera"
!enter-district target_id="records office"
!run-exploit target_id="records server"
!escalate-privileges target_id="records server"
!exfiltrate-data target_id="records server"
!evade-trace
!wipe-evidence target_id="office camera footage"