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I think a straightforward fix is to make it Threshold 2 or 3, so that if you get 0, 1 or 2 successes you lose 1%, 2% or 3% (still 5% on a glitch, 10% on a critical).

Make sense?

Sure. I just threw out a system. Feel free to modify it however you want. I'm no dev.

As far as all the people saying that I'm way off when I say that runners shouldn't be punished for investing in stocks because the world is already gritty enough I have no real response. I know how gritty my game is. I don't know how gritty yours is. If you invest a high lifestyle and don't get any successes with what I proposed then you still only make about 500 nuyen in a YEAR. Also, if the PC actually wants to earn that 500 he has to leave the 10,000 invested for the full year. That is 10,000 less he has to spend on stuff to make him better at his job. That doesn't seem like such a big deal to me.

Compare to losing your drone. 3000 nuyen for a drone is not a huge or unreasonable amount. If you invested 10,000 and didn't get any success in my system with a yearly rate of 5% it would take you 5.5 years to recover the 3000 you just lost. Plus you won't have the use of that drone for 5.5 years. That's what I mean by "why penalize them anymore?"

And yes if they did bet it all on Red 28 I would make them lose it but that is a very different mindset. The player knows that his odds are slightly worse than 35:1. I have no problem giving a PC 500 nuyen a year (actually more like 510 when you actually compound) for "free."