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From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Origins Tourney Update, Part 2
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 13:23:28 -0400
At 03:39 PM 5/16/98 +0800, hansen wrote these timeless words:

>>Keep in mind that for the most part (I think) the Negative Traits ARE
>>limitations and hinderances as Matt said... Plus, I believe that they are
>>figured into the overall cost and power/abilities of the card. Thus, the
>>exact same card without the negative trait might cost more nuyen, have
>>fewer skills, or whatever... So in the end it does work out...
>>
>but that's the point... I mean what about static? He costs 1 to deploy has
>decking 3, tech, anti-social, recon and hermit. 1 nuyen for 7nuyen? So what
>if he's easy to kill, I use him in most of my non-decker decks for his
>recon(unless I'm using someone better) he's cheap!
>
And for purposes of Assets, he'd be worth 4 Nuyen. Not bad for a 0/1 with
fairly limited potential (Recon is nice and he's useful in a decking deck,
but let's face it... The decks are going to be fairly random... Very
little tuning involved in a sealed deck tourney.

YOu don;t count skill points... Just traits.

Bull
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