From:	Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject:	[Shadowbeat] Cybercams
Date:	Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:15:26 -0400 (EDT)

"Angelkiller 404" <angelkiller404@**********.com> writes:
> >(Somewhere around here, I've got the stats I did up for Optical Chip
> >HardBoxes. In Shadowrun, CDs are a somewhat limited recording medium,
> >but Optical Memory Chips are too expensive if you use the price in
> >Shadowbeat, and insanely expensive if you use the prices in the BBB3.
> >I took a tiny reference from the gear chapter of the BBB1, and
> >fleshed it out. If you're interested, let me know.)
>
> Finally got around to answering this...yeah, I'm interested.
>
> In Shadowbeat, the OMC's were too cheap (something like 0.5/Mp on
> p99), and VR2.0, they were something like 6/Mp, which is a bit more
> sensible, and in BBB3, they're 20/Mp, which is way too much. From .50
> to 20 in seven years...the only thing that can possibly rise that fast
> in value are comic books, rookie cards, and those damned Pokemon
> cards...

I thought OMCs were like CDs. The OMCs in Shadowbeat are like
buying a prerecorded CD, the ones in VR2 were like buying blank CD-Rs
to use with your OMC burner, and the ones in BBB3 are actually hard
drive equivalents* (CD-RW?).

Mark

* I thought the ones in BBB3 weren't OMCs, just abstract storage
medium in a box.