| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: 2060 ENHANCED-cyberware |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 13:13:37 -0400 |
>Once upon a time, Joshua Bell wrote;
>
>>As a part-time gamemaster I have come up with the following:
><snip>
>>What is you opinion?
>
>Well, I just checked the send date and it wasn't a lost post from April
>1st.
I can see how you sometimes get in trouble. The sarcasm from this was
literally oozing from my monitor. Bitch to clean off...
>In other words you've got to be kidding. It took about 5 years (sorry I'm
>not checking the books for an exact date on this one) to get from beta to
>gamma and a few more before hints of delta came out (which is only 2?
>years off your date). Your SOTA curve is way off.
The SOTA curve is horribly off; but that's not the only problem.
Okay, Alpha is an Essence reduction of 20%, Beta is 40%, Delta is 50% as I
recall. That curve indicates to me that is is increasingly difficult to
make chunks of metal and plastic (i.e., cyberware) Essence friendly. So
your next grade up, Gamma, might well be 60%, but Epsilon would probably be
65%, your "Super Epsilon" (run out of Greek letters did we?) would be 70%,
and there would almost certainly have to be a physical limit, a cap on how
Essence friendly something could be, like 75% or something. If cyber is
99% Essence friendly, it's nearly bioware, but you can't tell me that the
cyberarm with the implanted cyberdeck, gyroscopic stabilizers, magnetic
palm, and pop out shotgun is nearly all biological material.
And for the SOTA curve...the game is currently in 2059, and will be moving
into 2060, probably sooner than later, since the new Seattle Sourcebook
(due sometime this year) covers 2054 up to 2060; that means SR is moving to
2060 in as soon as a few months. So your "future" cyber is essentially
nearly here by the time line.
Now if you said this was 2160 cyberware, we might not hammer you as hard.
I can see that you made cost a balancing factor to try to make things
"fair," but you neglected to keep the idea within the spirit of what FASA
intended. Or at least that's what I believe.
Just head back to the drawing table I suppose.
Erik J.
"Ladies & Gentleman, the newest member of the band, the one and only Spice
Boy, GRUMPY SPICE!!!" <and the crowd goes wild!!!>
