From:	jlkim%sdcc3.ucsd.edu@****.BITNET
Subject:	Re: initiation rare? B.S.! (fwd)
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 92 23:10:10 -0800

>Gotta agree here, I mean cash is very easy to get hold of whereas karma takes
>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), the
y
>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 reach

>higher grades, even if they do take an ordeal and find a group.
>

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 ;-)).

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.

No flames. Just an observation.

Justin
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Justin Kim
jlkim@****.edu
Graduate School of International Relations/ Pacific Studies
University of California-San Diego
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