You might want to have a look at the playtest material for Transhuman, specifically the Entrepreneur trait from the Character Options section. It can at least give you mechanical backing to being on the corporate ladder. I cannot, however, attest to how balanced it is. By my reading I am almost certain that it costs quite a bit too much for what you get, but I haven't had a chance to use it in play quite yet.

CodeBreaker wrote:

You might want to have a look at the playtest material for Transhuman, specifically the Entrepreneur trait from the Character Options section. It can at least give you mechanical backing to being on the corporate ladder. I cannot, however, attest to how balanced it is. By my reading I am almost certain that it costs quite a bit too much for what you get, but I haven't had a chance to use it in play quite yet.

It's priced the same as the Allies and Patron traits, which it's functionally equivalent to. If you want to improve it further, just spend the 8 CP to increase the Rep of your business to 100.

nick012000 wrote:

It's priced the same as the Allies and Patron traits, which it's functionally equivalent to. If you want to improve it further, just spend the 8 CP to increase the Rep of your business to 100.

If that is the intention, then it should be written mechanically similar to those two traits. But it isn't. Entrepreneur gives you a secondary reputation track with a particular network, within which you can roll your own networking skill to get favours, just like if it was your own reputation. Allies and Patron give you a much broader, potentially much more useful level of support, subject to GM discretion. There is no reason to take the Entrepreneur trait as written outside of wanting mechanical support for your part ownership of a business. The actual mechanical support you get is overpriced, and can be outdone by buying a fake ID and increasing your reputation with that. If Entrepreneur has a power equivalency Patron and Allies, then that is not an indication of Entrepreneur being cost balanced. It is an indication that 1) You are under changing the players that have Patron and Allies, or 2) Patron and Allies are overpriced.

Decivre wrote:

If that's the case, why not buy it at level one and dump 9 points in it to max it out from there? It'll be cheaper than level 2 and give you a hypercorp with a single maxed reputation.

Exactly this. Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of the trait. I even like the implementation. It is just that the numbers are off. Make every level be worth 30 reputation. Or halve the cost for each level. Or give it additional mechanical tricks. Or do what Deci suggested, pull it, build it into a proper game system, and release it later (maybe along with that Skill Tricks e-product that was mentioned as a possibility.)

tsathoggua wrote:

Thanks everyone for the replies and I am glad that it wasn't an obvious answer. (All I want is to be the CEO of Stellar Intelligence...)

Honestly, my best answer would be "talk it over with your GM". So long as you aren't planning to use it for abuse, actually have an earnest urge to make it part of your character, your GM might not mind it being part of your concept. Actually, if you want to be CEO, that means you really don't want the Entrepreneur trait anyways. That's more for a shareholder than an employee. Definitely talk it over with your GM.