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Old 12-01-2010, 10:42 AM   #5
sir_pudding
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Default Re: Starting Wealth, What cost of Living gets you, and Cost of a Sedan

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Originally Posted by Guver View Post
Something is amiss.... opinions?
Look at it this way. Most players don't want to figure out their character's finances to the penny. They certainly don't want to track every individual paperclip, fork, and towel in the PC's apartment. The 80% "rule" and CoL lets a player get away with just buying the characters cool adventuring gear and still be able to say, "When I get back to my apartment, I take a shower, open a cold one, and watch the news" without having to spend any cash, or record any limited resources. Drifter types have more money for adventuring gear but they don't get the nice comfortable handwave of status appropriate lifestyle support.

It doesn't really matter (unless the character takes something like Debt, or Signature Gear, or the Vehicle perk) if the PC owns his Status appropriate car or not as long as he pays his monthly CoL. If he fails to pay his monthly CoL, and thus loses Status he might just lose that Status appropriate car.
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