Hi!
Since my character is lacking an arm as of lately, I needed to consult all those medical tables and stuff. Now, I decided to get her a cloned new arm, and it lists, besides the price (25.000 ), a 'base growth time' of 8 weeks. Now, the term 'base growth time' implies there are modifiers, and a roll t make, whose results the growth time then isdivided through.
Thus, I checked both Man and Machine and the BBB, and found - nothing. No rules or anything about a "cloning test" or something like that, no modifiers or anything. Now, Man and Machine also has the table that includes the base growth time and price, but includes the mentioning of "forced growth" of donor-things. this procedure would quadruple the price but make the body part available 'much faster', in 'less than 2 months' (calculating the average weeks contained in the term 'two months' I found that - 30 + 31 : 7 = 8.715 (rounded). Note how that is LONGER than the base growth time listed both in BBB and M&M! So, there is a reduction, apparently (and for four times the price, I would damn well expect one!), but the only thing I know is that it is less than 8.715 weeks.
So, what did I miss? Where do I have to look for modifiers? Or is the 'base growth time' just the non-negotiatable, not modifiable growth time for cloned limbs? If so, what IS forced growth good for? Making doctors even richer?
Someone please help me. And I begin, more and more, to see what SR4 is nescessary.