Full Version: Aging in Shadowrun
| QUOTE (Ed Simons) |
| That's a bit different than what you said, though it does match my previous statement that a lot more than 10% of the population was born elves in 2011. |
It is what I meant though.
| QUOTE |
| Population figures like those in SoNA and SoE work if about 14% of the population became elves, 9% became dwarves, 9% became orks, and 4% became trolls. That is the simplest solution even though it contradicts the books which say about 10%. |
Those sound like reasonable numbers. I imagine it was hard to get good numbers until recently in the SR timeline due to the plauges and crash. I bet most people would be happy lumping all those together and saying about 10%.
| QUOTE (Fortune) |
| Or maybe those figures only refer to people with SINs. A higher percentage of the Goblinized races are SINless. |
That's an interesting idea, though it does make the overabundance of elves even more of a problem. It also doesn't answer why there's a higher percent of dwarves that are SINless than orks that are SINless.
Well, if you count all the people who were medically dwarves at the time...
Either that, or bearded chicks get busy.
Either that, or bearded chicks get busy.
| QUOTE (Tomahawk) |
| I agree with that....what I'm saying is how would that affect things like retirement and the like. I guarantee a company would be perfectly willing to overlook that they are screwing over Orks and Trolls, but there is no way they'd start paying someone a pension at 65 if there was a strong prospect that this person would live to 300...heck even if they'd live to be 150. |
That's a good point. No corporation would want to pay pensions for that long. That could lead to anti-elven and anti-dwarven hiring practices, refusal to grant them pensions in the first place, limitations on total pension benefits, or various methods of forcing them out when they reach standard retirement age.
Those aren't disadvantages that would affect most PCs, but they would affect elves and dwarves as a whole.
Edit: Another annoying double post. 
You assume that there still are pensions for anyone outside the upper Corp level. 
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