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post Jul 16 2004, 11:29 PM
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Well, I'm looking at the price of ammo, even the standard slug and then figuring out roughly how much one would fire in a couple of hours. Do this very often, and well I don't think any of my players will ever make any money for cyberware and stuff. So what should I do?

Is firing at firing ranges really as expensive as I'm estimating or what?
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post Jul 17 2004, 12:57 AM
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well using shadowruns gold plated ammunition rules it will be expensive. i recomend rayguns rules, which simulate real life, especially with ammo prices
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post Jul 17 2004, 01:03 AM
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I concur. Ammo prices, like many other things in canon, are notoriously fucked up. Thankfully, they are pretty easy to fix.
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post Jul 17 2004, 01:11 AM
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Practice shooting at the firing range is covered by most Lifestyle costs, as is the gasoline/electricity to get there, the soft-drink drunk there, and the meal afterwards.
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post Jul 17 2004, 01:12 AM
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although you can buy regular ammo on the streets 10 for 15¥ then sell them legitimately for 20¥ and make a profit
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post Jul 17 2004, 06:51 AM
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actually i think the ammo costs are just right.

1. The cost of regular ammo is supposed to cover all types from .22lr to .50BMG as well as exotic wildcat cartridges, look it up and you'll actually find that a good price on .50BMG is 2 bucks a bullet, when you gotta come up with a price for all cartridges you price it at whats the most expensive cartridge a character could fire.

2. Seattle metroplex is very urbanized area, perhaps Governor Schultz is a liberal democrat that's trying a bullshit "tough on crime" stance by putting a horrendous Ammunition Tax ordinance in place, some areas in Cali have tried to do this.

3. They're packaged in small quantities of 10 and pre-loaded into "Universal Clips" available in Vending machines on every corner, you pay for convenience like that chummer.

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post Jul 17 2004, 06:53 AM
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QUOTE (OurTeam)
Practice shooting at the firing range is covered by most Lifestyle costs, as is the gasoline/electricity to get there, the soft-drink drunk there, and the meal afterwards.

well, thats a classic quote often countered by the equally classic "what if i didn't buy a lifestyle? it's gotta cost something"
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post Jul 17 2004, 10:01 AM
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If you didn't buy a lifestyle, no problem. Hand-carve your bow, make your own arrows and arrowheads, walk in your bare feet (5 miles up hill each way) to the firing range, and since you can't get in you should just shoot arrows at people coming out. ;)
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post Jul 17 2004, 02:52 PM
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Canon ammo prices sound about right to me, but it could just be the prices of ammunition in the great state of KenSucky. I practice with my Taurus 24/7 9mm quite often, so I'm always buying ammo. A box of 50 9mm Winchester brand FMJs comes out to about $8.75, and a box of Holow Points is $11.50, in the same caliber. Now, I'm thinking most firearms in Shadowrun, especially the heavy pistols, probably make use of 10mm ammo, which is more expensive nowadays, but could actually be alot cheaper in the future.

And, I agree on Otomik's idea about a "tough on crime" high ammunition tax, if you don't agree with canon prices. Good way to explain the cost to your players, and not let them talk you into dropping the price down. At last count, our team's street sammy had around something like 800 rounds of Heavy pistol ammo, not counting all his gel rounds, explosive rounds, APDS, and all that. Or the ammunition for his other weapons. On the other hand, my decker has an Ares Viper and still has yet to fire a single round from it. *LOL* Waste not, want not, I suppose.
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post Jul 17 2004, 03:16 PM
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Canon ammo prices sound about right to me, but it could just be the prices of ammunition in the great state of KenSucky. I practice with my Taurus 24/7 9mm quite often, so I'm always buying ammo. A box of 50 9mm Winchester brand FMJs comes out to about $8.75, and a box of Holow Points is $11.50, in the same caliber. Now, I'm thinking most firearms in Shadowrun, especially the heavy pistols, probably make use of 10mm ammo, which is more expensive nowadays, but could actually be alot cheaper in the future.

somewhat off topic but I think 10mm will die, not a lot of new firearms coming out with long magwells. The situation is worse now with the introduction of .45GAP. If that becomes popular the main reason for making guns with longer magwells (.45ACP) will be gone and with it a lot longer cartridges like .38 Super, 9x23mm, 7.62x25mm, 10mm will only survive in 1911s.

Those prices are bad, do you belong to one of those ranges were they make you buy their overpriced reloadable ammo?
9mm 115gr. Blazer, 50 for $5
http://www.natchezss.com/ammo.cfm?contentI...FTOKEN=17171743
plenty of deals here too
http://www.ammoman.com/webstore_9mm.htm
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post Jul 17 2004, 03:45 PM
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What sort of handguns do you see police oficers using in the SR 2060s in that case? Will those who might have to fire at a troll (which, I assume, will cover about 100% of all police officers) simply not carry semi-automatic pistols, opting for revolvers in something like .41 Magnum instead?
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post Jul 17 2004, 04:23 PM
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im no ballistics expert but 10mm always seemed right for shooting at trolls. IIRC it was cut down to .40 S&W because of overpenetration, beign less of a concern when there are alot of things bigger than you out there ;)
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post Jul 17 2004, 04:31 PM
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Remember, you also have to allow for controllable fire - I'm not a small man and my .45 will leave my hands comfortably numb.

Anything much larger will be difficult to manage for most people - that is part of the reason why the .40 was developed. As a compromise between the 9mm and the .45 round.

Although I'd have to check sources to confirm that particular nuance of the .40 S&W.

With trolls and the proliferation of body armor, I'd imagine that most LS cops would have a magazine of AP ammo - although that is not canon. Simply my speculation on the escalation of force.

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post Jul 17 2004, 05:07 PM
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As for cops who have to fire at trolls, I have one word: Thunderbolt.

As for ammo prices, I know I bitch about how expensive ammo is *every* time I go to the range, so why shouldn't my players?
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post Jul 17 2004, 05:11 PM
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How much do you pay per box at the range?

At Wal-Mart or Gallyan's (fancy sporting goods store) a box of 50 .45 rounds costs me $10-$12.

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post Jul 17 2004, 05:24 PM
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QUOTE (Fygg Nuuton)
im no ballistics expert but 10mm always seemed right for shooting at trolls.

That depends on exactly how large you see the SR trolls as being. If they really only weigh about 225kg on average, hotter 10mm FMJs or even SPs might do the trick, thanks to the rather shallow thoraxes of humanoids. However, if you see trolls as being 2.8 meter bone-plated monstrosities, you should be packing something a lot more powerful than 10mm Auto.

QUOTE (Fygg Nuuton)
IIRC it was cut down to .40 S&W because of overpenetration, beign less of a concern when there are alot of things bigger than you out there

Overprenetration is not bad and using less powerful weapons simply because of overpenetration is just silly, not to mention that you can get a .40S&W to fully penetrate several humans as well as a 10mm Auto to stop within 8" of flesh -- not that you'd want to. .40S&W is probably more common mostly because it's smaller in size and has lighter recoil while still being quite capable of killing humans.

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With trolls and the proliferation of body armor, I'd imagine that most LS cops would have a magazine of AP ammo

Seeing how common body armor is in canon SR, that would make sense. But I certainly wouldn't want to use AP handgun ammunition against trolls -- those might cleanly penetrate the troll, but a permanent wound cavity smaller than 10mm in diameter won't bother it too much (on the short run) unless you directly hit the spine, brain, heart, or a major artery between the last two.

[Edit]A 10mm AP bullet vs a (2.8 meter) troll is relatively the same as a 6mm AP bullet against a human, and I'm sure many police officers would not be very happy about being issued FN Five-seveNs with SS190 ammunition IRL.[/Edit]

If there were 2.8-meter-tall bone-plated humanoid monsters IRL, we'd probably consider anything smaller than a .338 or a 12G magnum slug far too weak for hunting them.

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As for cops who have to fire at trolls, I have one word: Thunderbolt.

Indeed. Or, in fact, a Heavy Pistol caliber Heavy Pistol. However, I'm interested in slightly more detail...

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post Jul 17 2004, 07:05 PM
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Speaking from a game mechanic standpoint, any BF heavy pistol would be useful. Against high-Body targets, EX explosive ammo is probably the best choice of all the canon munitions available. (It's a good thing nobody can get hit by someone missing a shot :grinbig: )

In real life, trying to accurately use a BF handgun in a .45 round would take a lot of practice.

At which point you might as well upgrade to something bigger.

Industrial strength tasers could work, but what incapacitates an Ork or even a Troll would probably kill anything else.

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post Jul 17 2004, 07:18 PM
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QUOTE (Siege)
In real life, trying to accurately use a BF handgun in a .45 round would take a lot of practice.

Very true, and you'd still be restricted to non-deforming ammunition to get the kind of penetration required. I don't think automatic fire is the solution, not for street cops anyway. (Regardless of what SR canon might want you to believe.)

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post Jul 17 2004, 07:38 PM
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QUOTE (Fygg Nuuton)
although you can buy regular ammo on the streets 10 for 15¥ then sell them legitimately for 20¥ and make a profit

Only if you've got the box, and the ammo is all from the same manufacturer, etc.

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post Jul 17 2004, 07:58 PM
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QUOTE (Fygg Nuuton)
although you can buy regular ammo on the streets 10 for 15¥ then sell them legitimately for 20¥ and make a profit

I suspect that it's not possible to legitimately sell ammo that you acquired on the streets. At risk of resurrecting the SI debate, I figure that part of the reason for the reduced price is that much of the ammo you find on the streets didn't get there legitimately, and skipped the BATF (or equivalent) bureaucracy and some or all of the associated taxes, tariffs, surcharges, and other costs. In the black market, that's fine, but if you start trying to sell it in legitimate markets, sooner or later someone's going to notice that your merchandise doesn't have the appropriate stamps, seals, paperwork, and so on, and start asking inconvenient questions.
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post Jul 17 2004, 08:02 PM
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So regular ammo today costs about 10 cents a round? And in 2064 regular ammo cost about $2.00 a round? That's less than a 2,000% increase in price. Be happy it's not on the same scale as most other things were from 1944 to today.

But oh yeah, I keep forgetting that guns aren't supposed to change in any way whatsoever in 60 years. Especially price. My mistake.
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post Jul 17 2004, 08:06 PM
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QUOTE (Siege @ Jul 17 2004, 05:11 PM)
How much do you pay per box at the range?

At Wal-Mart or Gallyan's (fancy sporting goods store) a box of 50 .45 rounds costs me $10-$12.

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Wow, at wal-mart a box of 100 Winchester .40S&W costs me only 14.95.

EDIT: Also...

I rule you can buy ammo for about 1/4 the price just for range shooting. plinkers are much chepaer than a shigh quality hollowpooint or match grade rounds, but they are less accurate to some degree and have far worse balistic profiles for shooting at things that scream and bleed.

For good quality ammo today you can easily get up to 2 bucks a round for high quality match grade ammo.

That being said I like expensive ammo in SR. Money sinks are nifty. I like players thinking "2 Bucks" every time they shoot at a baddie and miss. :D
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post Jul 17 2004, 08:09 PM
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Hey, it's caseless, right? You gotta pay for not having to pick up all that messy brass . . . :D

Of course, you could always do your training in a simsense environment of some kind. Heck, you could match yourself up against the last five UCAS Olympic shooting teams. And with your smartlink, you might even clean up on them! (I'm sure the Olympics wouldn't allow smartlinked guns, or would they?)

Either way, prices can change easily enough, all it takes is a pencil (which probably costs $50 in shadowrun).
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post Jul 17 2004, 08:12 PM
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QUOTE (Necrotic Monkey)
So regular ammo today costs about 10 cents a round? And in 2064 regular ammo cost about $2.00 a round? That's less than a 2,000% increase in price. Be happy it's not on the same scale as most other things were from 1944 to today.

But oh yeah, I keep forgetting that guns aren't supposed to change in any way whatsoever in 60 years. Especially price. My mistake.

If everything in SR had been hit with a similar inflation rate, that might make some sense. But not everything has, unless you can get a permanent "High Lifestyle" with a one-time investment of $50,000 IRL, or legally buy a high-quality semi-automatic pistol with less than 20 bucks. I somehow doubt you can. Additionally, according to your logic, the price of all goods and services in Italy were slashed by 99.5% in 2001-2002.

[Here's hoping you were joking.]

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post Jul 17 2004, 08:22 PM
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i'd say cops are afraid of Trolls and go for whatevers in their trunk before confronting them whenever they can anticipate that situation. probably to a less degree with orks, and they'll band together as goblinized and call it racial profiling, file a few harassment suits in return. Politicians wanting to distance themselves from the shitstorm will privitized law enforcement further as a way of "passing the buck".

"Suspect is described as a large ork male."

The way things are going the only way police are going to get a 10mm, burst-fire and other really un-politically correct sidearms is with significant pressure from police unions bitching about their undertrained officers being "outgunned".
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