Shadowrunner Population, It's a buyer's Market. Options

[Drraagh]

Something I was thinking about last night, especially given all the talk of fixers dealing with runners in the CSI thread. What is the percentage of population in cities that are runners? Or more importantly, could that not affect prices and payouts? If you've got a thousand runners versus a million runners, there's less choice for who to take, so the runners with skills can pretty much write their own ticket. If they piss someone off, the runners might still work with them just because it means they'll get paid.

The flip side of this is that the more runners you have, the more visibility there is. Sure, shadowrunners are generally visible, like gangers, but at the same time, they are usually able to fit in. But you then have more of a chance of people causing problems, which means more people who could be on your ass to make an example of Shadowrunners. And it also means security will be higher because places are being hit more often and such.