Speaking of nanofabrication, coming up with blueprint costs for ammo isn't detailed either. Do you figure out the blueprint cost and then divide by the number of shots? Say my shard pistol - cost of [Low] for 100 shots. Blueprints are then [Moderate] divided by 100? 5 credits?

Exactly - but I only need the blueprints for one bullet, not 100. If I was going to design a blueprint of a round in simulspace, I'd only need to make the one, not 100. So it stands to reason ammo blueprints should be based on the cost of one shot.

LOL judging the cost of plans based on the book price of one shot vs 100 shots is a little bit metagame don't you think? :D If this was brought up at my table I'd make that judgment based on the outcome of a rochambeau. I get to go first! Seriously though; it's just not a dollars and cents game. If you need that level of resolution you really have to DIY. As a GM I'd hand wave the cost of amunition prints by saying that part of the cost is in keeping the prints secret and secure. Or, if a player continued to whine about it, He can have his 5 credit (cost Trivial) amunition prints and very shortly meet some NPC's I've been holding in reserve till someone fucks up.

By metagame I mean; how do you pick a price point in the appropriate cost category for any number of bullets. The book doesn't say that 100 rounds of regular ammo costs 50 credits. It says they cost "Trivial" so how do you pick your credit cost? Does one round cost .09 or .99 credits? If the simulationist insists on using the Average Cost in a price catagory then must he pay exactly 50,000 credits for a 100,000 rounds of amunition? And, if so, does that simulate a realistic setting or does it simulate the book? I'm just saying looking at the "price" of things in the book isn't going to tell you much about the EP economy or setting. Because, there are no prices. A burrito may cost you 1 or 99 credits, Cost: Trivial tells you nothing about the price of beans or bullets. I understand this is heartbreaking for the strict simulationist gamer. For those people; they can have less anxiety if they don't get hung up on Cost Average numbers. (The GM can help by not using the Cost Average numbers too.) Healing vats (as well as all of the healing rules) don't tell us anything about the economy either. They are obviously [opinion]poorly written[/opinion] rules that conflict with the setting to facilitate play at the table. Fortunately that's not difficult to fix at the table. In the triangle plot of Simulationism/Narrativism/theotherone I sit closer to the simulationist side. I'd like to know more about your solutions to these economic conflicts.

Hmmm. There is a subtle difference here that I'm not getting. How is growing a body from a fetus different than growing a body from a head with the exception that, in the second case, the brain already exists?

Ahh. So we've progressed from artificial hips, skin grafts, plates and screws to quickly assembled matrices for organs that are designed/arranged on an individual's genetic pattern. All the organs could be regrown initially based off stock library "Type 0" cell models on the pre-made scaffolding and differentiate to the sample genetic stock as growth progressed. Cool Idea. :) That's a lot more believable for me than my original vision of a tiny body growing out of a head. It may be similar technology to the way Pods are manufacured. I'm still skeptical that this could be done in 15 days.