[SPOILER] Question about start of corpo path

[Bjørn]

When you start this path, you get a lot of money in cash, but after the initial mission in the nightclub, you loose it all, and after the general intro sequence ("6 months later"), you're more broke than when playing the nomad path (not tried streetkid yet).

I'm wondering if it's possible to go on a spending spree to get some guns and other gear before you enter the nightclub, just after you land outside in the AV?

Just thought of this now, so just curious before I get too far in this new playthrough as a broke V

[EricHVela]

It is railroaded. You are taken to a location to enter the nightclub that, without cheats, will only lead you into the nightclub with no other exits available at that time.

Also, the €$s your V is given are physical (to be untraceable). The vendors V can visit during the game only accept the digital eddies.

(The bigger question is how rolls of eddies become digital eddies to spend when V collects them throughout the game.)

Complete the Rescue (first Act I mission) and you get some eddies to spend. For some more starter cash, collect everything not nailed down during the Rescue and sell it at the Drop Point just outside V's apartment the next morning.

They do not want a corpo-rich V starting the post-prologue game.

[Actalo]

So if you use Atelier mods you can spend your money in the prologue by using the computer on your office desk. Do it after seeing your boss to get even more money. Spend it all as you lose everything anyway.

[Bjørn]

Thanks guys. I just played on. Not hard to make money in the game, really

[kripcision]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Thanks guys. I just played on. Not hard to make money in the game, really :lunar2019smilingpig:

nope but everything is expensive lol. 500k barely buys you anything, at least at the legendary level.

[Scarecrow]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

(The bigger question is how rolls of eddies become digital eddies to spend when V collects them throughout the game.)

It's like game cards. Each physical eddie has a code block on it, if you collect an unspent physical eddie, you scan the code and that eddie's value is added to your digital stash. The paper that had the code, while looking like an eddie, is now just paper that no one else can scan.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Scarecrow:

Originally posted by EricHVela:

(The bigger question is how rolls of eddies become digital eddies to spend when V collects them throughout the game.)

It's like game cards. Each physical eddie has a code block on it, if you collect an unspent physical eddie, you scan the code and that eddie's value is added to your digital stash. The paper that had the code, while looking like an eddie, is now just paper that no one else can scan.

That's interesting Is it mentioned anywhere in some lore or other place that it's like that in the game, or are you making it up?

Anyway, one example of this method around here, is for when buying tobacco and razor blades and other things that are typically often stolen. You first select what you want on a touch screen through a menu system, then get a paper slip with a barcode, then you show / scan that in the cash register (manned or unmanned), pay for it, and finally you scan that slip in the vending machine and get what you've paid for, and the slip is useless after. Phew...

[Bogmore]

I don't think the code scan option is right, as during Judy's braindance tester clip "you" get a lot of them and wouldn't a shopkeeper scan them straight away?

[Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Originally posted by Scarecrow:

It's like game cards. Each physical eddie has a code block on it, if you collect an unspent physical eddie, you scan the code and that eddie's value is added to your digital stash. The paper that had the code, while looking like an eddie, is now just paper that no one else can scan.

That's interesting Is it mentioned anywhere in some lore or other place that it's like that in the game, or are you making it up? :lunar2019smilingpig:

Anyway, one example of this method around here, is for when buying tobacco and razor blades and other things that are typically often stolen. You first select what you want on a touch screen through a menu system, then get a paper slip with a barcode, then you show / scan that in the cash register (manned or unmanned), pay for it, and finally you scan that slip in the vending machine and get what you've paid for, and the slip is useless after. Phew... :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

I'm basing this off of a really old memory of playing through the original table top Cyberpunk 2020 game that I played in the 1990s.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Scarecrow:

Originally posted by Bjørn:

That's interesting Is it mentioned anywhere in some lore or other place that it's like that in the game, or are you making it up?

I'm basing this off of a really old memory of playing through the original table top Cyberpunk 2020 game that I played in the 1990s.

Cool

[Tokenn]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Thanks guys. I just played on. Not hard to make money in the game, really :lunar2019smilingpig:

Exactly. Money is one of the easiest things to acquire in the game, esp. when you get up to levels in the 30's. Hack data points, do gigs and scanner jobs, sell captured weapons...you'll do fine.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Thanks guys. I just played on. Not hard to make money in the game, really

Exactly. Money is one of the easiest things to acquire in the game, esp. when you get up to levels in the 30's. Hack data points, do gigs and scanner jobs, sell captured weapons...you'll do fine.

Yes, good tips, thanks.

In my previous game, which was my first 'long' one, I think I mainly spent money on cyberware, and I think also skills to create higher level quickhack components from netrunners. Not on weapons and such. Dismantled most of the ones I found (sold a few), and I think I had over 1 million eddies before I decided to start a new game

[Aprosule]

If you pick up the Fist Fighting gig, and you bet the largest amount for yourself against the twins, you will win exactly enough eddies to pay off Vic. Isn't that nice?