Re: [HOE] Cyborgs/Scrapers vs Power Armor

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>>I think that the costs aren't meant to represent real world costs, but
>>just as a marker (hey, I could sell my car and afford an infiltraitor
>>package!). So comparing the cost of a cyborg vs. the cost of a pistol
>>isn't that straight forward. I would say multiply all the costs in the
>>cyborgs book by 100 to 1000 times to get a more "real-world" cost.
>
>Good point. The same is probably true for power armor--a Wolverine suit goes for
>about $15,000 in the wastes because nobody has pre-War resources anymore and
>that's all the market will bear these days--but the prices are much lower
>anyway. I imagine a combat cyborg probably cost millions to make while a power
>armor suit ran in the high five to low six-digit range.
>
>--Robert Holland

To expand on this, you might want to say the original cost of a PA suit was 5 to
20 times the book cost in U.S. dollars, by comparison to Theo's 100 to 1000
times book cost for a cyborg.

--Robert Holland