| From: | Cosmo Of The Cosmos <V076JY2P@*****.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | Cyberware Was: Initiation Rare? B.S! (fwd) |
| Date: | Fri, 30 Oct 92 19:45:38 CET |
>>a helluv alot of slogging. Any player with enough cash can go stay in some
>>hotel in Chiba and after, say a few months of legwork (if they're unlucky), th
e
>>will have found themselves a clinic to do the op. Whats more is that they can
>>go back to that clinic whenever they want some more additions. Poor magicians,
>>shamans and assorted adepts have to blow loads of karma when they want to reac
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I just gotta say... NOT! What you can buy with money/karma as a mundo
and what you can buy with Money/Karma as a mage is NOT even. Sorry
chummer but most Street sams are essance maxed when starting while
mages have NO limits to how far they can advance. You play Mages too much.
> I once did a feasibility study to see how much it would cost to
>have an alpha rig put in one of my characters. I gave it up as soon as I
>realized that the doctor's fees and recuperation costs alone would come to
>at least 12,650,000Y [(250,000*50)+(1000*50*3)] (assuming I got out of the
>clinic in the minimum 3 days). In the campain I was in, it took me almost
>seven months of playing time just to save 300,000Y, and I was by far the
>richest of the lot (the fewest doctor's bills ;-)).
Glad I read this message! The problem with most players is that they
fall into the belief that you are a mage, street sam, rigger, or decker
with someone coming up with a odd combo every once in a while.
What you want is another player who's a Technomancer!
My guy BOUGHT a Alpha level cyber clinic, a gang to protect it, contacts
to bribe and keep the place Lone star free. (Amazing what you can do
with 1,000,000 nuyen) I also bought a gun shop, armor shop, explosives
shop, etc. and anything else I could think of. Didn't have any cyberware.
Didn't have much equipment. But after the first adventure, Everbody
came to me to spend their Nuyen. In return for their busness, (Not to
mension fire support.) I gave them the stuff at a smaller profit than I do for
the regular customers. It's amazing how much you can save if you make it
yourself. I hired everybody else in the group and paid them with equipment
and ammo.
Oh, as a side note, if you do play a technomancer save up yer
karma for auto successes when designing new equipment, for new ideas and
things to sell is what's gonna keep yer customers coming back. (Build a better
mouse trap...)
> I always figured the point of custom cyberware was that it would
>take major pull with or major favors from a corp (or the Yak) for a player
>to be able to afford it. I never wanted to owe *anybody* that much.
Everybody owed me favors, but I never took more than the person could
afford. You don't get anywhere without friends, and you get dead if you
make too many enemies.
---Widget <B/R skills/Magic for the masses>
