How do you determine the MP size of a file.
I've been reading a few threads and from what I remember from various published sources it seems to me that file sizes tend to be well .... rather large.
For instance, I was just reading the posts from Synner and Satcong about a simple matrix run where the file Satcong was after was a wopping 550 MP. Assuming the Corporation (or Law Firm) in question payed a discout rate of 10 per MP for there computers (which I assume are the hardware responsible for storing the information available on the Matrix) they payed a wopping 5500 just to store that one file. Considering that an average Law Firm would be storing hundreds if not thousands of files at a time this seems to me hugely cost prohibitive.
If you go by actual prices in the BBB, they would have payed 11000 just to have the memory capacity to store this single file.
Seems outrageous to me!
Now Cyberdeck Off-Line Storage is much cheaper. This comes in at 5 per MP, which will run the Firm 2750 + 50 for a grand total of 3000 . That however seems to apply to Cyberdecks only as it's a seperate system. I'm just speculating that a Law Firm is more likely to have normal hardware rather then Cyberdeck Offline Storage.
Now, storage costs vary all over the place. I understand a need for game balance but it just seems like they're throwing higher and higher numbers out there with absolutely no thought of actual economy behind it.
It all has me rather confused now that I've begun thinking about it....