QUOTE (the_dunner @ Feb 19 2008, 06:14 AM)
On a related note, however -- I REALLY wouldn't expect to get something with a 20F availability in a Missions game. The availability and the pricing should be pretty firmly outside the grasp of what's accessible in an SRM scenario.
Wait a second... a 20 Availability's still possible, because the way Availability works in SR4 is it's a threshold for an extended Test. All a person has to do is rack up 20 hits, and presto, the item becomes available for them to pick up from their contact. You make one roll per time period, and with those nice calendars people have to record their activity, they can record exactly when they made what rolls and how many hits they got on the Test. Get a GM to sign off on it, and they could, theoretically, pick up an item with an incredibly high Availability like that.
Unless you want to make a house rule limiting the Availability of items that people can get from their contacts, Dunner?
Because Blanc, my Speaker's Way adept, could rack up 20 hits on an Extended Social Test (with either Negotiation or Etiquette) with three rolls easy... and he isn't even twinked out for Social Tests.