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  • [SR2] Fitting the curve; assigning a binomial to Essence and Cost for non-linear cyberwear values

    From Ubiquitous@weberm@polaris.net to rec.games.frp.cyber,rec.games.frp.misc on Thu Apr 9 13:01:04 2020
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.frp.misc

    While working on a spreadsheet for ShadowRun2 chargen, I had trouble with cyberwear eessence and prices that were not linear with the level selected.

    For example:
    Wired Reflexes:
    Level l 2 Essence 55,OOON
    Level 2 3 Essence 165,OOON
    Level 3 5 Essence 5OO,OOON

    Rather than enter each level as a seperate entity, I generated functions
    for a parabola passing through three points with the level and cost as coridinates. I guess all those math classes I took for my degree paid off!
    :-)

    Boosted Reflexes:
    Cost = 1000*(12.5*(a_Ratings^2)-12.5*a_Ratings+15)
    Essence loss = 0.4*(a_Ratings^2)-0.5*a_Ratings+0.6

    Dermal Plating:
    Cost = (10.5*(a_Ratings^2)-22.5*a_Ratings+18)*1000

    Vehicle Control Rig:
    Cost = 1000*(96*(a_Ratings^2)-240*a_Ratings+156)

    Wired Reflexes:
    Cost = 1000*(112.5*(a_Ratings^2)-227.5*a_Ratings+170)


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