keeping a body alive Sans-Ego is a mute point because you can drop a simple AI, like a copy of your muse, into a biomorph with no issue in EP.

And a biomorph with a cyberbrain is technically a Pod. Sorry that was sloppy of me.

OneTrikPony wrote:

And a biomorph with a cyberbrain is technically a Pod. Sorry that was sloppy of me.

Biomorphs with a cyberbrain installed actually work with different rules than pods do on a game level. Furthermore, they are more socially acceptable than pods seem to be. So I don't think that society, or the game mechanics, see biomorphs with cyberbrains as a form of pod.

nizkateth wrote:

New quick question, after looking through transhuman. An infomorph with +1 speed (like from digi-neurachem) has 4 actions per turn right? So, if they also have Mental Speed (since that can be software instead of nanoware) does that mean an infomorph could have 12 mental/programming actions per turn? If so, that's sorta cool. Also, can infomorphs have a Muse, like as a sub-program? Or do you need to be physical for that?

Yes, to both. The Muse counts as a seperate informorph, though, so they need something like a Ghostrider Implant for the muse to ride in unless they're on a proper server.

nizkateth wrote:

Am I missing something... or does it cost the same (0 points) to be both a flat, or a splicer with no cortical stack?

Kind of. There are a few rules to consider if you do take this route. First off, you may not spend more than 100 CP on morphs. A splicer costs 5 CP, so you would have the option to spend 95 CP on morphs. I'm unable to find the source of this rule to comfirm at the moment, so I'm not sure if I'm correct on this. Second, you can only select so many negative traits. You can get up to 50 CP through negative traits. Up to 25 of that can be from negative physical traits, and 50 of that can be from negative ego traits. If you exceed those limits, the excess CP is lost. So yes, you could make a splicer morph "free", but you could only do that so many times.

Technically, such morphs are not free. Free implies they cost 0 credits. A Flat costs 1000 cr, and a Splicer without a cortical stack would cost 3000 cr (normally 5000 cr). I'm using the rules from the core rulebook starting on p. 276. According to customized morphs (or see the bottom of the nearby table) on p. 277, negative traits reduce the value of morphs by -200 cr per CP. Its not clear on if there is a minimum price for morphs. You might want to set 1000 cr as the minimum, or half the cost of the original price (not any less as there is a sufficient demand for morphs that its unlikely that no one will not be willing to buy it). Its not the same as making morphs cost 0 CP at character creation, but it is still worth noting.

Well the titanian commonwealth is a strong government (the entire population is bound by laws passed by the plurality and elected ministers have significant executive power) with a rep based economy, you can earn money but you don’t by stuff with it, it represents the portion of shared investment capital you can control as an individual (you choose what micro corp. it goes to), the majority of shared capital is distributed by vote of the plurality.

Yes, but The expanded rules are in transhuman No shell can take more actions than its speed. say you are in an info morf with speed 4 and mental speed +2 (maxed out and well worth the trouble) you have a total of 12 actions. A standard synth has only 1 action and won’t benefit from your speed so you can only fire the gun it is holding once and only 3 in the first action phase, but you could have some others wait for you to get around to remote controlling it in later action phases. It gets worse when you realise that you can remote control a squad with a single complex action. All the shells you control together have to be in close proximity (1 m) and doing the same thing (shooting the same target) so consider n info morf in position of 48 dragonfly synths with a range of weapons in 3 seconds you can fire all of those guns (in groups of 4). Its not even hard to pull together the fire power. By the plans and a fabber. Use a relatively weak shell that doesn’t use rare feed stock and build them in massive numbers. Combat is deadly, increasing quantity will bring up lethality much faster and cheaper than increasing quality. Really the only down side is that it is several light years from subtle. Dam it man, throw in a modest number of forks and you outnumbering the swarmanoid.

By rules, yes. Could be difficult to justify, you might need to have had experience sleaving in them in the past, probably several times.

Hmm. You could run a cloud of morphs with forks in combat, but remember that if you hit any TITAN infection vector you are going to have to test at least per-ego for stress and infection (for basilisk hacks) if not per-morph. Once one cell is infected.. well, you treat comms traffic from your alpha forks as trusted by default, right? :)

nizkateth wrote:

Is there a convenient way to model wealth beyond avarice?

You could treat the wealth as a kind of Patron...I *know* there was a thread about this way back, somewhere in the Archives, where people came up with a plethora of different ideas. Aha, in this collection we find: Wealthy (Positive trait, 20 CP) The character owns valuable assets: investments, Earth antiques, voting shares in hypercorps, land or habitat space, family reputation, patents or other forms of wealth. These stocks produce a steady flow of income. In principle they can also be sold off or mortgaged to get cash or services, but this is often both impractical and will be at a loss. The character has a yearly income of 100,000 credits, and a few million credits in assets. In the new economy the income equates to an extra number of big favours that can be called in without a need for refresh rate. The wealth tends to act as a social +10 bonus when interacting with people who know of it (but some are of course envious or see the character as an exploiter no matter what she does; here the trait acts negatively). One downside of being Wealthy is that the character is tied to the fortune: the authorities (and celeb trackers) keep an eye on her, and should she do something illegal they can at the very least seize the wealth. (The trait "Secret Wealth" would be 30 CP, corresponding to a hidden fortune untraceably accessible via the lunar banks) Another problem is that the fortune requires some work to maintain. Normally this is handled by employees and the character's muse, but from time to time there are decisions to be made. If the character is not properly around to do this the wealth might start eroding. [Other variations of the Wealth trait: TBRMInsanity suggests: “1. You/your family are major owners of the vital resources in a traditional or transition economy and as such you are the single point of sale for vital items in many of the nanofabricators in the hab. Each level of this trait will decrease the cost of legal items by one level (example level 3 would make Expensive items, Low cost, and everything else would be trivial). Each level would be worth 15 points. 2. You/your family has inherited a large amount of money. Each level of this trait indicates the "durability" of your finances. When you make a purchase, if the category of the purchase is less then the level of this trait, then there is no change to this trait. If the category of the purchase is equal to the level of this trait, decrease the level of this trait by one level. If the category of the purchase is greater then the level of this trait, decrease the level of this trait by one level per category over this trait (example using a level 2 (Moderate) trait to buy trivial or low cost items would be free, moderate items would reduce the trait from Level 2 to level 1, High items would reduce the trait from level 2 to level 0 (ie gone), and you can't use this trait to purchase Expensive items). Each level would be worth 10 points.” Babayaga suggests: “The way we model hyperelite wealth is through the Patron trait: your wealth *is* your patron. This includes being able to "pull strings on the character’s behalf, supply resources, introduce them to people they need to know, and bail them out of trouble" as per EP corebook p.147. Indeed, virtually the whole description of the Patron trait makes perfect sense substituting the character's "network of assets" for the "patron". E.g. "if the character asks for too much, too often, they should find the patron’s support drying up. Additionally, the character may need to take action to maintain the relationship, such as undertaking a mission on the patron’s behalf."” ]