QUOTE (BRodda @ Jan 7 2009, 07:44 PM)

I'm trying to find rules and costs for personality chips. They talk about them extensively for meat puppets, corpers, and posers, but I can't find any of the rules for them.
Basically I'm looking for Happy Office Worker v2.3, Cool Club Kid vXTC, Elvis Lives v134.3, that sort of thing.
I know you probably need some type of Sim player or skillwires to use them, but how much do they cost? How many points do they cost towards loaded programs? That sort of thing. I know that the Active/Knowsofts will be separate, but the basic mannerisms, slang, and social protocols type stuff.
This can be handled as a combination of existing programs.
Simply add together the prices, take the highest availability/legality in the package, probably slap a 10% discount on it.
Of course, one would need the equipment to play back every single component of the program at the same time.
If you combine a lot of high-level skillsofts in the package, this can become problematic, though certain options from Unwired may help a lot here.
As far as the single components are concerned :
Basic mannerisms, slang and social protocol boil down to an Etiquette activesoft.
By that, you can emulate the cool club kid, the well-mannered aristocrat, the street-smart ganger, whatever.
For particularly abrasive personalities, an Intimidation soft may be part of the package, for a sly trickster, a Con soft, for BigBoss 3.01 a Leadership soft and so on.
All of these might contain behavorial modification below the BTL level, though i'm not sure how much of that is possible by RAW without overriding legal ASIST peaks.
To impersonate a specific person (like a fake celeb in a bunraku parlor) would be a specialization of Con.
If you actually want to make the obedient office worker feel happy (or get the meat puppet into the mood for hustling), you'll need an apropriate emotive track from a sim recording.
This will, of course, not achieve the level of a p-fix (even though it may come quite close with the overdrive option).
However, it may be easy to conceal addictive BTL signals in pirated versions of such programs.