I'm setting up a shop. In Unwired, pg196, we are told we can purchase nexi:



In looking for ways to make the shop profitable, I found Programming Suites and Nexus Programming rules in Unwired, pg118:



The rules then go on to explain how much it costs to rent time on a Nexus, and completely skips over what specs are required for a player to use a Nexi that they own.

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Yeah, i saw that too. I would say that a programming suit (umm ENVIRONMENT, i meant) is a a software mix... maybe a few agents... say... three or four, some ultra-expensive edit/browse software for each of them. And maybe a mix of assorted databases and codefragments from all available types of programs. Also a very good VR-interface software. (What you do is what you build)

I would let someone steal it, or buy it for a LOT of cash. Maybe... the price of a facility (100k since it is pretty much a software-facility). But never less than 50.000 + monthly costs for patches, updates and legal crap.

They have prices for Programming Suites in Unwired, in the back of the book in the tables... they are traditionally rated from rating 1 to 6...

Programming Environments are something completely different, and I would charge the equivalent fo a Facility for such capabilities... as that is exactly what they really are...

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Yeah just like i said... just switch the words, mixed them up... rest i keep as i wrote *g*.

Yeah, programming suites I've got covered. No big deal. It was the programming environments that threw me for a loop. When buying a Nexi, you have to specify processor count, etc, and that scales the price of the nexi. Min 10, max 50, according to the rules. What would be the min required for a nexi to count as a programming environment? Also, what differentiates the two? I can understand your desire not to give the PCs an overpowered virtual facility, but it IS virtual, and Nexi aren't 100k pieces of hardware.

Edit: Atually, I get it now.



So I'd need a nexi with a certain set of stats, and then I'd need the agents with appropriate autosofts of the appropriate rank. Yeah, that 100k number is sounding more reasonable.

quick guess, the big corps dont want to sell you what they can rent you

kinda like why cure some problem when one can continually treat the symptoms?

but then i prefer to think that the common comlink user do not run programs on theirs, but instead log onto some MSP node and make use of services found there...

A lot of common people in Shadowrun probably go this route, yes...

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