From:	Cobra <wgallas@*****.FR>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the SingleShadowrunner(t
Date:	Fri, 8 May 1998 04:43:05 +0200

>|>It basically allows for a more intelligent choice of weapons than
>|>"I'll grab a heavy pistol - which one doesn't matter, 'cause they're
>|>all 9M"...
>|
>|All heavy pistols were 4M2...
>
>Not all. SSC. Firepower ammo and the good ol' faithfull Predator and
>Predator II. (The Predator didn't have a reactive trigger, or the ability to
>use Firepower ammo, which added +2 to power, the Pred II could ONLY handle
>Firepower.... It was my fave weapon before ShRII came out and spoilt it...)

I've forgotten this one. Anyway this came from ammo and not from the pistol
itself... :)

>|This system was a bit stupid sometime... When you used explosive ammo, it
>|increased the staging by 1, thus making it more difficult to kill someone.
>
>But more difficult to resist the damage that'd already been inflicted.
>Variable staging always was a double edged sword.

Not very realistic. This is typically a RPG effect without relation to
reality.

- Cobra.