Grav Vehicle Pricing

[Golan2072]

I have a problem rationalizing the grav vehicle costs listed on p.103. While most of the grav vehicles are very expensive - Cr100,000 and up - the grav floater is a mere Cr500. Furthermore, while it has far lower performances than the grav belt, it has unlimited endurance (or, at least, no endurance limit is listed) while the Grav Belt has limited battery life, yet the grav floater costs Cr500 and the belt Cr100,000!

Another problem arises from robot pricing. P.96, under Integral System states that "certain devices could be built into drones or robots by increasing the cost of the device by 50%. Popular choices include... grav floaters". So, while a robot carrying a grav floater would cost, for the very least Cr750 (which might work for the Personal Drone on p.95), a robot using a grav belt should cost, for the very least, Cr150,000. And the Probe Drone on p.95 costs a total of Cr15,000 all while having the Integral System (Grav Belt) trait...

 

[Klaus Kipling]

Does look a bit out, but there is another thing to consider.

The integral system is not a grav belt, it just has the same performance as one. The probe is lighter than a person, therefore the grav component is less expensive. Also, it does not have to have all the other parphenalia to keep a person safe while wearing the grav belt. But yeah, there does seem to be some pricing problems.

Agree that the floater is too cheap. Maybe a couple of zeros went errant and it got compounded across the dataset?

 

[rje]

Maybe a couple of zeros went errant and it got compounded across the dataset?

This sounds like a reasonable fix to me.