<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7738765#msg7738765">Quote from: ReijiTabibito on 17-02-2013, 18:45:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Take an Olympian.  Olympians are 40 CP cost, but in the credit department, they are [Expensive], or 20k credits.  That means you're spending twice the CP to buy the body directly as opposed to with credits...and those 20 CP can be used for...200 Rep points, 20 Skill points, 4 Skill specialties, a Moxie point, 2 Aptitude points...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yeah, and in most D&D games you can't start out with level 20 epic spells or gear. It's SO HARD being a starting character with all these limitations built into the game to prevent you from aspiring to instant godhood, isn't it?<br/><br/>It seems to me that when the rules explicitly say spare morphs MUST be bought using CP, suggesting you can buy credits using CP and buy the morph with those credits is a really disingenuous way to try to circumvent the rules.<br/><br/>That's not 'being efficient'. It's 'breaking the rules'. The rules are in place for a reason. If you go through the EP forums numerous accounts exist of people trying to finagle their GMs into letting them have multiple reapers with alpha forks and the like. This is also why multiple alpha forks are discouraged from remaining long under PC control in the forums relating to EP gamemastering.<br/><br/>Buy any spare morphs with CP, please.<br/><br/>Also, consider that some morphs are extremely rare, and/or illegal to own in some habitats. This is specifically mentioned with Reapers, but undoubtedly there are areas where Furies, Ghosts, etc., are going to be banned or licensed. Think of it like weapons control. This may surprise some people, but I've visited nations in this world where each household is allowed ONE kitchen knife which is chained to the counter, and where sharp tools are issued and collected at the workplace...And if you're caught with that knife somehow unchained, or with other sharp instruments, odds are good the police will simply kill you after they're done interrogating you to see if you were part of some foolish violent rebel group.<br/><br/>(It's worth mentioning that expense (in terms of not merely credits but resources) can be a big, big issue. Chaser's character concept is PREDICATED on the idea that not many people want to take the time and expense of building a small ship-sized growth vat to create a morph in, particularly since it takes roughly two years to grow a human-scale biomorph. Space is expensive in itself, in the inner system's economy. It takes more materials to build larger rooms/halls/habitats and more atmosphere/other chemicals to fill them, which is then reflected in more effort for a habitat to maintain stationkeeping as it's influenced by other masses in microgravity.)<br/><br/>And just to complicate matters, remember that you also have to pay body banking fees on morphs you aren't occupying.<br/><br/>