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 Oct 22 2005, 09:20 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 21-June 04 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 6,429  |
I am not completly sure about the program costs-table... e.g. standard programs: Rating 1 - 50 :nuyen:, Rat. 2 - 100 :nuyen:, Rat. 3 - 150 :nuyen:. Okay. So far, so good. But Rating 4 - 400 :nuyen: (4 x 100 :nuyen:)? Or 250 :nuyen: (3 x 50 :nuyen: + (6-4) x 100 :nuyen:)?
And what about upgrades. If I have a Rating 4 Edit program can I pay 100y to get a Rating 5 one? The same for hardware... If my commlink has response 4 and I want to upgrade to response 5, is it 2000y or 4000y? I would say software is upgradeable in that sense, hardware not. But the book is not entirely clear about this... |
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Oct 23 2005, 12:34 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
It seems pretty clear from my reading that it is 400 :nuyen: . *shrug*
There doesn't seem to be any upgrading option in the rules, not even the option for a programmer to increase the rating of software he had previously written himself. Though some software sellers might offer a trade-in rebate for the old software or your PC could just try selling the old software themselves. Very unlikely that you'd recover the original purchase price though. |
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Oct 23 2005, 01:07 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 261 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2,115 |
I doubt you could get any money reselling software. I'd assume that commercial software requires activation on a single designated commlink and that reselling software is a violation of the EULA. Reselling software would require cracking it, and then you'd be in selling-cracked-software territory which is a whole other can of worms.
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