Estimated cost of a single Absolution (Fury)- 300K... Estimated cost of a Novatek Shinigami (Reaper) 380K Estimated cost of a Medean Issue CounterGuardian (Reaper) 490K

That inherently is up to you. If you want tricked out biomorphs to be that high end then so be it. For simplicity's sake I say one cred is worth one local note.

NewAgeOfPower wrote:

Estimated cost of a single Absolution (Fury)- 300K... Estimated cost of a Novatek Shinigami (Reaper) 380K Estimated cost of a Medean Issue CounterGuardian (Reaper) 490K

Where did you get these numbers? They seem a little high. I'd rather buy two morphs that cost half as much each, and use a fork, or just buy a lot of armed drones. In a fight, it's generally a mistake to concentrate so many resources in one easy-to-destroy-or-hack package (relatively speaking).

Unfortunately the core rulebook is rather devoid of important economic information. There is no way to judge how much a person earns a year, how much characters should get a rewards for adventures, or how much you should pay a person for their services. There is much information missing that I would really like to have.

AlphaCentauri wrote:

I have just read the corebook, I've tried to make a character. As a part of his character concept he had a fairly tricked-out morph, on which I spent a whopping 20 000 creds on top of already expensive Olympian base, plus some morph advantages that were paid for in CP rather than creds. Seeing how about 20% of transhumanity cannot afford any morph at all, what sort of character could realistically afford that sort of meatsuit? Is it possible for your average Working Joe to get something like this, even if it was a majority of his life savings + some loans (an investment akin to buying house in America), or would only somebody obscenely rich hope to get his hands on sums in region of 50k creds? With no earnings figures and the whole post-scarcity economics thing to confuse the issue, I have zero idea how much worth do credits (or rep for that matter) represent.

The problem with that question is that it's even hard to answer today: depending on what country you are in, a dollar has more or less spending power based on the value of the local economy. When I went to the Philippines, I went with 200 bucks. Within the context of that economy, it went a lot farther with regards to food and goods (I bought an authentic silver necklace at Baguiao for the same price that I bought an extra large pizza, and I can purchase a dollar menu item from McDs at about 60 cents). On the other hand, I'd have to spend about as much as I would on a small car to purchase a PC there… electronics are more expensive, as a general rule. Even minimum wage is a tough thing to quantify. Here, you're looking at 7 bucks an hour… and that's barely enough to get by. But a chinese worker will generally subsist on the equivalent of about 100-200 dollars a [i]month[/i], and that's enough for a single person to live rather comfortably. So really, that's a hard question. Even in the context of this game.

I made some estimations in http://www.aleph.se/EclipsePhase/Transhuman%20capital.pdf (based one earlier threads, in the archives) ending up with "An employer will hence tend to pay High for an employed professional (1,500-10,000) and Moderate (500-1,500) for simple service labour. In some polities payroll taxes and social fees are added, bringing it up by between 10-60%." Also worth noting is that many things in EP do not have sensible prices in dollars simply because they don't exist today, like quantum computers, smart clothes or food fabbers. Implants today cost in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, yet are not even enhancements. Conversely the price of an ordinary tourist knicknack from Nome, Alaska in EP is through the roof.