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Old 09-03-2018, 10:06 AM   #11
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Default Re: Infinite ammo cheat (snatcher?)

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Snatching money is one of the uses thats not realy impaired by non-permance. At least as long as you have no fixed address and keep moving on anyway. Maintaining a decent separation between your transactions and the discrepancies in accounts receivable could help a lot.
Sounds like fairy gold. Of course fairies never worry about mortals tracking them down to collect what's owed.
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Old 09-03-2018, 10:52 AM   #12
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Default Re: Infinite ammo cheat (snatcher?)

Honestly, it just makes more sense to purchase Wealth if you want lots of money. The problem with using Snatcher to create money is that five pounds of $100 bills is only worth around $200,000, and it disappears whenever you use Snatcher. For the same number of points, you could purchase Multimillionaire 1 (giving you assets of $20 million at TL8), Status 2 (from Multimillionaire 1), and Independent Income 5 (giving you an income of $1 million per month at TL8). Of course, in AtE the situation of wealth is different, but you can usually get something much better than Snatcher for 80 CP.
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Old 09-03-2018, 11:02 AM   #13
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Honestly, it just makes more sense to purchase Wealth if you want lots of money.
All true and well known.

I was mostly aiming at the rationale for making Snatcher non-permanent which was that otherwise it would act an a source of endless wealth.. It might not act as a source of endless utilitarian objects but for the talented money launderer it's mostly a minor challenge.
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Old 09-03-2018, 01:10 PM   #14
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Honestly, it just makes more sense to purchase Wealth if you want lots of money. The problem with using Snatcher to create money is that five pounds of $100 bills is only worth around $200,000, and it disappears whenever you use Snatcher. For the same number of points, you could purchase Multimillionaire 1 (giving you assets of $20 million at TL8), Status 2 (from Multimillionaire 1), and Independent Income 5 (giving you an income of $1 million per month at TL8). Of course, in AtE the situation of wealth is different, but you can usually get something much better than Snatcher for 80 CP.
Of course, that trick didn't work quite so well in commodity money systems. Specie is fixed point money; banknotes are floating point money. As Venezuela is currently demonstrating.
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