From:	Logan Graves <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject:	Re: Cost of Cards
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:28:04 -0400

(>) The udder day, the Smiling Bandit wrote:

> I tried to figure out a formula for this and almost made it.

<snip! sorry.>
> 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


I checked out the BKK's Runners' "TCG stats" against your formula:

> FIT DIDN'T FIT
> --------- ----------
Buzz Ricochet Rita (2 too low)
LaRue Fenris (much too low)
Dain Vixen (1 too low)

Questions:
Was Fame the only consistant special trait? Not Recon, also?

What about Armor?
What about upkeep (do you add them together)?
Did you find any trends here?

Just curious,

(>) --Fenris
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