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Message no. 1
From: Geoffrey Haacke knight_errant30@*******.com
Subject: Bioware and Lifestyle [was Re: Dealing with munchkins]
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:24:08 CST
>If the others are interested, maybe we can put the charecters up on a
>webpage
>for comparison...
>

It wasn't a done up in a true character sheet and I lost the piece of paper.
:l

>Which reminds me... (just to keep the topic drifting...) We all know that
>certain types of Bioincrease how much you eat, right? Well, I think that
>fact should modify how much those charecters should be paying for a
>lifestyle, since Lifestyles do include your food budget when your not
>running... But just how much should that be? Suggestions?
>

I really like that idea! I'm a big eater myself, so I spend more on food
than my roommates. Hmmm, the lifestyle increases would be very dependant
on what you had and the rating of the bio. Hmmm, I'm gonna have to do some
thinking now.


Geoff Haacke
"if you not part of the solution then you are part of the precipitate."


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Message no. 2
From: Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject: Bioware and Lifestyle [was Re: Dealing with munchkins]
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:02:37 EDT
In a message dated 6/3/99 2:25:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
knight_errant30@*******.com writes:

> really like that idea! I'm a big eater myself, so I spend more on food
> than my roommates. Hmmm, the lifestyle increases would be very dependant
> on what you had and the rating of the bio. Hmmm, I'm gonna have to do
some
> thinking now.

Well, the two major culprits as described in Shadowtech are the SuperThyroid
and Symbiotes. Superthyroid doubles your food intake, and Symbiotes are
anywhere from a 50% to a 100% increase. So, depending on which of these a
person has, their food budget SHOULD go up by anywhere from 1/2 to 3 times as
much as a normal person. And THAT's just if they eat normal food. If they
decide they are regularly gonna subsist on that concetrated diet, the cost of
the food budget triples again!

So, how do we determine how much of a "regular" lifestyle is housing, Trid,
etc, and how much is food? Cause if we know that, it clearly would be
possible to multiply their food "budget" by the appropriate amount.

This thought came from a certain basis I used when working up a troll
charecter. Just to be fair, I modifed his lifestyle costs by the "troll
adaptation" to represent the higher food budget, probobly slightly more
expensive rent from the higher celings, etc...

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