 SSG Lifestyles + "Metabolisim modifiers", You do you do it? |
 Nov 18 2006, 01:49 AM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499  |
Various items in Man & Machine give a multiplier to lifestyle costs based on addtional food intake (Symbiotes, Suprathyroid Gland, Digestive Expansion). But since the realise a while ago, something that has been bugging me is the fact that the cost of your lifestyle is made up of six things of which only one of them (Comforts) covers the food you eat and even that isn't just the food (Covers water and power as well).
Has anybody body changed the way the lifestyle cost's are manged to represent this? Was thinking something simaliar to the Buy lifestyle rules on pg 133 SSG. Ie. Your chosen lifestyle say costs 24 points (10k) comforts being 4 points of it (16.66% or 1660 :nuyen: ) how about modifiing that number buy whatever your bioware requires? Or how many people already do that? |
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Nov 18 2006, 05:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 28-August 05 Member No.: 7,631 |
My SR3 characters who have Suprathyroid usually also have at least two lifestyles: a Middle that they actually live in and a Low for a safehouse/gear storage. That means they're setting aside the money to buy twice as much food as a normal person (although half of it is cheap food), which I always figured was enough to cover the "extra food" requirement of the bioware.
So yeah, that's how I always handled it. |
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Nov 18 2006, 09:08 AM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
I ran it as requiring an extra rating on the food section above the level you wanted to cover buying in bulk.
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Nov 18 2006, 01:39 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,010 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
If I were going to reconcile them, I'd figure out how one would have to modify the cost of Comforts to double the cost of the overall lifestyle at all balanced typical levels (Squatter, Low, Medium, High, Luxury), and then apply that as the modifier.
~J |
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Nov 18 2006, 02:04 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
?? Doesn't read right to me. You saying, for example that someone on a low lifestyle (1000 :nuyen: Comforts 2) that you would cause them the pay for Comforts 4 thus upping the lifestyle cost to 2350 :nuyen: ?
Interesting way of doing it, keeps it simple. |
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Nov 18 2006, 02:17 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,010 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Nope. In the example above, assuming the original modifier was 2x Lifestyle cost, and a Low „1,000 balanced lifestyle, I'd figure out what I'd have to do to Comforts to make the lifestyle cost „2,000. Then I'd apply the same formula to unbalanced lifestyles.
~J |
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Nov 18 2006, 02:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
Ah i had considered that, but the increase's to Comforts would either put it at 1650 or 2350. Unless you go by half points or something. |
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Nov 18 2006, 02:38 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,010 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
It'd probably be a modifier to the price of n points of Comforts, not a modifier to the point value.
~J |
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Nov 18 2006, 06:38 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
For stuff like that, I pull a number out of thin air, ask if the player thinks it sounds cool, and then that's what it costs.
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Nov 19 2006, 10:25 AM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
Short answer: No, we donŽt.
Slightly longer answer: The fraction of lifestyle costs paid for food should depend on your lifestyle. IŽd prefer a flat-out payment per month, as 10k per month should pay for any food you might want, while low lifestyle should increase by more than 10% if you eat double. |
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