From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: On with the show... (Essence reduction)
Date:	Tue, 5 May 1998 05:11:25 +0000

Gurth wrote:
> > I am new to Newsgroups/Messages and so I just posted what I thought was
> > cool, and if it IRITAITED some of you..sorry, I guess I got a little OUT
> > THERE too fast.
>
> I didn't see any problem with your post, but I wouldn't use it myself.
> Some people are more easily irritated than others, though.

About the same impression I got. There's one detail I'd like to bring
to light. I don't see how all cyberware can be easily reduced
in essence cost... in particular structural cyberware. If you install
a cyberlimb, it's a cyberlimb - you can't make it smaller, or a
partial replacement, or whatever. If you install titanium bone
lacing, it has to retain its mass and shape to remain effective at
what it does, and so on. Much of the headware might be easier, of
course, but still...

And yes, if you read an earlier post of mine on cyberware and full
borgs, the discerning listmember has realized by now I contradict
myself.

I have an impression that much cyber which doesn't take much 'space',
but is drastic in its interaction with the brain or the body, has an
elevated essence cost. That also implies that while the cyberware
itself can be minimized, there's another cost which cannot be
proportionally reduced without reducing its interaction (effect).

And vice versa. (Of course, it's 90% certain that's for game balance
reasons, but we should think of it as having a basis in 'reality'.).
Or should we? Well, that's another discussion.

In one of the books.. FoF, a comment states electronics is reduced in
cost and size by 10% P.A, by the way. It's a comment, not 'official',
of course.

--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost