[LT Armor Loadouts] Expensive Greaves

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

Hardly. Every item has a different ratio, which changes with the TL. You would also need to know the cost/labour ratio for every component.

You don't need to know the ratio. The cost of an item is (materials) + (labor), so if you replace one material with another material, the price difference is equal to the difference in material price.

Of course, a realistic modern figure is something like $0.25/lb for iron and $1/lb for bronze, and the GURPS constant dollar model implies that you should be able to use the same number at other TLs, which will make the cost difference between iron and bronze nearly irrelevant. That's a general problem with how GURPS does prices, though.