What would you buy?

[sennin]

OK, here is the situation:

You are human. You have $400,000. You are in North America. You want to kick ass. What equipment would you buy? You must keep the items to things that wouldn't be too hard to get your hands on while staying in North America.

[sennin]

OK, here is the situation:

You are human. You have $400,000. You are in North America. You want to kick ass. What equipment would you buy? You must keep the items to things that wouldn't be too hard to get your hands on while staying in North America.

Buy one MD laser pistol, an e-clip recharger, and give the rest to a mage powerful enough to rift me to 20th century North America.

I don't leave North America and I now possess more asskicking power than tanks.

I would have to vote that 20th century North America is not an MD setting, so your laser pistol really won't be all that powerful. But once you figure that out, you could probably sell it to the highest bidder and live quite comfortably for the rest of your life.

[sennin]

OK, here is the situation:

You are human. You have $400,000. You are in North America. You want to kick ass. What equipment would you buy? You must keep the items to things that wouldn't be too hard to get your hands on while staying in North America.

Buy one MD laser pistol, an e-clip recharger, and give the rest to a mage powerful enough to rift me to 20th century North America.

I don't leave North America and I now possess more asskicking power than tanks.

I would have to vote that 20th century North America is not an MD setting, so your laser pistol really won't be all that powerful. But once you figure that out, you could probably sell it to the highest bidder and live quite comfortably for the rest of your life.

Oh that's right....I forgot that moronic retcon. "MD weapons/armor become SDC in SDC worlds"

What can I say, rules put in place for game balance don't please everyone. Besides, even if your laser pistol stayed MD in the 20th century, you will still easily be taken out by a sniper. Or a few guys with assault rifles. Now if you also had some EBA...

[Shadyslug]

400,000?

A small farm with a decent MD rifle with 10+ e-clips. Then just live my life in peace...

[sennin]

OK, here is the situation:

You are human. You have $400,000. You are in North America. You want to kick ass. What equipment would you buy? You must keep the items to things that wouldn't be too hard to get your hands on while staying in North America.

Buy one MD laser pistol, an e-clip recharger, and give the rest to a mage powerful enough to rift me to 20th century North America.

I don't leave North America and I now possess more asskicking power than tanks.

I would have to vote that 20th century North America is not an MD setting, so your laser pistol really won't be all that powerful. But once you figure that out, you could probably sell it to the highest bidder and live quite comfortably for the rest of your life.

Oh that's right....I forgot that moronic retcon. "MD weapons/armor become SDC in SDC worlds"

What can I say, rules put in place for game balance don't please everyone. Besides, even if your laser pistol stayed MD in the 20th century, you will still easily be taken out by a sniper. Or a few guys with assault rifles. Now if you also had some EBA...

Lots of things can kill you all the time no matter where you are...at least with an MD pistol in an SDC world I can quickly get MORE money to buy lots and lots of armor, vehicles, all that jazz. Vault locked? 2 shots and I'm in. Cops hiding behind cars? 1 shot and the car is a smoldering wreck. Helicopters? Yeah...not for long.

Sure you can be sniped or gunned down, no argument there. You can still make a ton of cash with just the Wilk's Laser Welder in an SDC world cutting through the walls of a bank in just a few seconds, in the fault in a few more, load up a bunch of cash for a few minutes, then scoot.

You will not hear anymore arguments from me (well, for the time being).

[Kelorin]

There's been a lot of discussion about MDC weapons and armor *magically* turning into SDC gear in SDC settings.

So, logically what you ought to do is this: you pay a shifter to open a rift to Heroes Unlimited. Use remaining cash to buy up as many SDC guns & armor you can get. Carry all weapons to Heroes Unlimited Earth. Since weapons are already SDC, they are not affected by the *mystical MDC to SDC transformation barrier*, and thus remain as SDC weapons.

Here's the fun part. Carry all the weapons and armor back through the same rift. The very same *mystical MDC to SDC transformation barrier* should now work in reverse, and turn all of those SDC weapons into MDC weapons.

[Kagashi]

There's been a lot of discussion about MDC weapons and armor *magically* turning into SDC gear in SDC settings.

So, logically what you ought to do is this: you pay a shifter to open a rift to Heroes Unlimited. Use remaining cash to buy up as many SDC guns & armor you can get. Carry all weapons to Heroes Unlimited Earth. Since weapons are already SDC, they are not affected by the *mystical MDC to SDC transformation barrier*, and thus remain as SDC weapons.

Here's the fun part. Carry all the weapons and armor back through the same rift. The very same *mystical MDC to SDC transformation barrier* should now work in reverse, and turn all of those SDC weapons into MDC weapons.

Nope. They stay SDC. In the conversion book, things like HU2 borgs will remain SDC and have to find MDC components and weapons.

And dollars dont mean crap in Rifts Earth. Unless it was cold cash, it might warrent a few thousand credits to a collector or pre-rifts artificts.

[Mech-Viper Prime]

drop 400,000 in the CS Savings and Loan and go join the Coalition States Military

Free toys to play with, part of an elite force and still have money to spend on anything else

[AllMightyRCB]

Here's my choices:

NE-75H Shoulder Cannon -80,000
100 rounds of heavy cartridges -5,000

N-50 Super Heavy Force Field -170,000

NE-C20 Camoflage Variable Armor -75,000

(2) Ne-4 Plasma Cartridge Pistol with laser targeting -54,000
100 rounds each -8,000

10 Smoke Grenades -500
5 Flash Grenades -500
10 Tear Gas Grenades -2,000

NG-S2 Basic Survival Pack -3,000

And 2,000 for food and a place to rest.

[GaredBattlespike]

Hi.

I'd first spend about 40,000-45,000 cr on Bionics/Cybernetics(Like a Headhunter).

Next, I'd buy 1 Bushman Trooper(90 MDC) and 1 Urban Warrior(50 MDC) for a sub-total of 81,000 + 45,000 = 126,000 cr.

For weapons, I choose:
1) Wilk's 457 (Pulse Laser Rifle) = 40,000 cr
2) NG-45LP (Particle Beam Pistol) = 15,000 cr
3) Stun Blaster(Rifts GM Guide, page # 129) = 4,000 cr
4) .45 Caliber Submachine Gun = 700 cr
5) WI-23 Mini-Missile Launcher = 30,000 cr
6) Vibro-Bayonet (for the end of Rifle) = 7,500 cr
7) Survival Knife w/ Silver Blade = 350 cr
8 ) Survival Knife = 250 cr
------Subtotal = 97,800 cr + 126,000 = 223,800 cr-----------
For Ammo, I pick:
1) Long E-Clips [X 12] = 96,000 cr
2) Short E-Clips [X 6] = 33,000 cr
3) Extended Mags for .45 SMG (40-45 Round Capacity) [X 18] = 1,800 cr
4) .45 SMG Normal Rounds [X 240] = 250 cr
5) .45 SMG Silver Rounds [X 240] = 750 cr
6) .45 SMG WI-2E Rounds [X 240] = 960 cr
7) WI-23 Extra Missile Magazine [X 2] = 8,000 cr
8 ) Mini Missiles; Armor Piercing [X 6] = 13,200 cr
9) Mini Missiles; Fragmentary [X 6] = 6,000 cr
10) Mini Missiles; Plasma [X 6] = 13,200 cr
------Subtotal = 173,160 cr + 223,800 = 396,960 cr
Misc. NG-S2 Survival Pack = 3,000 cr + 396,960 cr = 399,960 (40 cr left)