Complex Forms, We need a rule that works. Options

[Nightwalker450]

I love my Technomancer, but I really wish I had more Complex Forms. Unfortunately its unlikely that I'll ever get any more than what I started with, even though my Technomancer now has almost 120 karma going for him.

At creation I'm fine with what its costing me, I can get a well rounded set, and thread some of the less urgent ones until I get them.

Currently Complex forms cost 2 points for the first rank, and karma equal to each new rating.
So the cost for a new complex form from scratch is:
rating 1 = 2 karma
rating 2 = 4 karma
rating 3 = 7 karma
rating 4 = 11 karma
rating 5 = 16 karma
rating 6 = 22 karma

So if you take 1 karma = 1 BP = 5,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) you get 110,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) for a 6,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) rating 6 program.
Interesting note that 110,000 karma is pretty close to what it costs a hacker to get all programs at rating 6 during creation.
There are currently 27 complex forms, assuming you start with 10 just to get the other 17 up to rating 3 will cost you 119 karma.
Anything rating 4 or below your likely to thread anyways since its not going to stand up very well when its needed, which will impose the -2 to everything else you might possibly do.

The new "Treat Complex Forms as Spells" optional rule, doesn't help fix this, it just changes the issue.
Now your Technomancer can ONLY use about 1/3 of the total programs at creation (no threading from scratch), and every time they want to use their exploit program they're going to have to resist 6 Stun from fading. It usually takes me 2 or 3 passes to hack something on the fly. So this doesn't work either.

So here's what I'm thinking for a house rule.
2 karma for level 1
1 karma per level up to 3
2 karma per level up to 6
5 karma for beyond 6

This breaks down to
rating 1 = 2 karma
rating 2 = 3 karma
rating 3 = 4 karma
rating 4 = 6 karma
rating 5 = 8 karma
rating 6 = 10 karma
rating 7 = 15 karma
rating 8 = 20 karma
...

Its not as simple as before, but it cuts the price in half for a rating 6 complex form.