From:	Andrew Payne III <smiling_bandit@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Cost of Cards
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:36:42 -0700

---Brett Borger wrote:
>
> I was looking at my runners the other day, and discovered that there
> is some sort of cost tally....basically, your skills and threat
> determine your cost, DIRECTLY, as opposed to guesstimated (Special
> abilities, however, end up with a guesstimated value).
>
> Can anyone confirm this?
>

I tried to figure out a formula for this and almost made it. I played
with a program to process the steps below and tried to tweak it for
about an hour at work. I could not make them all fit it, so I am
guessing that there is not formula to do it, but I could be wrong.
I detailed the steps I took, if anyone tweaks it to make all the
runners
fit let me know.

I took all of the runners without any kind of special text on them and
got 28 runners. I used the following formula and got 19 out of the 28
runners to fit in the formula.

step 1: find the average of the attack and body
step 2: if attack is greater than 3 then round the average up
if attack is 3 or less round attack down.
step 3: if the runner has fame add one
step 4: sum up all the runner skills and subtract 3
step 5: if the sum is greater than 0 then add it.
step 6: if they runner has sorcery or conjuring add one

Here is a list of runner that fit the formula and those that did not.

FIT DIDN'T FIT
--------- ----------
Ajax Dante
Caeser Glitz
Cannonball Hatchetman
Drake Scorpio
Gore Tusk Skag
Grandfather Bones Skidz
Hawkwind Thrash
Iron Mike Turbo
Jackyl Wishbone
Knuckles
Moon Shadow
Nightshade
Orion
Reaper
Sam the Sleuth
Shasta
Stomper
Syn
The Preacher



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Andrew Payne III
smiling_bandit@**********.com
http://www.oakland.edu/~ddmccoll/sr






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