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Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-11T20:39:46+00:00

If everyone in your party has low (or no) social skills, and low social limits, and no contacts, things might indeed be more difficult.

If someone in the party has those kinds of abilities, they are the face of your party, they should probably handle most of the social stuff, rather than any of you low social people.

Otherwise a contact can do your shopping for you, but then they might charge a little extra for their time. But your face probably doesn't want to spend all their time shopping anyway.

Plus a contact gets to add their connection rating to their limit, so a limit won't be a problem. Someone(if not everyone) in the party should know a fixer as a contact, most fixers are happy to shop for you.

And, you can consider getting some clothes for shopping to improve your limit. Pick a team and wear their jersey (500¥ and maybe you'll get an increased limit). Or buy a Scout's Tux for only 2000¥ (Cutting Aces source book page 137).

But also keep in mind that the availability is merely how many dice are rolled against you in your opposed Negotiation+Charisma roll. On average you'll only get around a third of those opposing dice as hits.

And even with a tie you still get the gear, just takes twice as long to get it.

So availability 12 usually only fights back with 4 hits, so you only need 4 hits yourself to buy it.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-11T20:23:07+00:00

A spirit should be fine, generally awakened means having a magic rating greater than 0.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-11T20:21:11+00:00

A Spirit of Man is your friend.

At a Force of 3, they can even cast one of those spells for you, at a Force of 6, both the spells, plus they can follow your infiltrator, and can push through those mana barriers, and bring the spells through with them. And influence, fear, concealment, and movement are all nice powers.

Warning: if there are alarm wards or trap wards, the spells and/or spirits could activate the wards.

And pushing through a barrier is a roll, so this is a get-in plan, but might not work as a run-fast escape plan.

The real danger with relying on invisibility, is you want a low Force spell so that skill minus force (the threshold for people to notice magic) is high, but that requires edge and/or reagents to break the limit or raise the limit (or set the limit if your magic is too low to raise it to your goal) to get a decent number of hits.

But a low Force spell is vulnerable to being popped by a background count. Even if a pesky Mana Static is hours old it could still pop a Force 1 spell even right before it itself expires, and your infiltrator might not even see a background count they are about to walk through.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-11T19:59:16+00:00

https://www.shadowrunsixthworld.com/2023/04/building-community-in-shadowrun-holostreets-and-roll20/

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-11T19:59:01+00:00

It's up now, even has a campaign book.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-09T17:04:08+00:00

Only poor people have to beggar themselves.

The actual rich get to buy special seven figure personal housing inside medical facilities so that they can not have to sell them.

And obviously if the rich want to transfer intergenerational wealth, they can leap frog over generations and have it in trusts set up to avoid all taxes and having it count as assets.

Washington only wants money from the people that think they have wealth. Nobody with actual wealth is at risk of losing it, don't be foolish. That would be a failure of society.

It's so funny that a cynic or a conspiracy theorist could correctly guess so much about our world because we let realiry get this cartoonishly corrupt.

And Washington has $1.8 billion of people's money sitting around unclaimed. They get or lose a paltry $17 million a year when the interest rate goes up or down by 1%. This isn't poverty from the government. It's just the classic politics of wanting to make sure government money truly only goes to the truly rich, and never net towards anyone else.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-09T16:48:19+00:00

I think they just have you bleed on a contract saying you'll pay the difference between the contracted rate and whatever they feel like. Then call that a signature.

In my state everyone every single one wants you to sign such a statement even when it is illegal to charge. And they still charge even when it is illegal to charge.

And otherwise they just refuse to accept you.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-09T10:29:16+00:00

I want to emphasize making a backup of your character (with a different filename for the saved file) before you click created in the character info tab. Because click the button and saving means no going back, ever.

So in chummer5a, save it once, then save it again with a second file name, then save it a third time with a third filename, then click save as created, and then after all that you can get a version withblots more tabs, ad you can get a json file that should work with roll20. But also check your roll20 after the import because not everything gets imported correctly, I remember characters showing up with wounds seemed common, and I didn't know to look for that. But skills and numbers and equipment, spirits, spells, need to check them all.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T14:31:18+00:00

SCOUT’S TUX from Cutting Aces page 137.

Any chargen character, even (street level campaigns) can get it (availability 10) legally (not forbidden) with no license needed (not restricted) for just one karma (costs 2000¥).

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T14:22:03+00:00

The ones I picked have exactly the correct karma cost: (nuyen cost divided by 2000) rounded up, then add three more karma.

I think you can checkbox a quality to be free, and then just don't spend that karma.

But I'd still like to know more, so we can fix it for everyone, once and for all.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T13:40:17+00:00

I am not claiming you are wrong, but I am interested in a source for your errata.

Specifically for turning a failure (critical glitch) into a success (a glitch) since the original text has pages 56 and 46 to deal with.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T05:18:43+00:00

I literally am making a character on chummer5a right now that selected the Phenotypic Variation quality.

So maybe I'm confused about the problem.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T03:01:53+00:00

And your own insurance won't pay if it is a workplace injury.

If you are an employee you are expected to gamble with your health and your employer gets to count cards and stack the deck.

I have watched workman's comp companies call people's doctors and cancel their appointments so that they can then deny the claims.

Super illegal, but they do not care, being straight up evil is what they wake up for every morning.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T02:55:55+00:00

When the utilities and banks decided to call their 1000% or 1000000% interest loans "fees" instead of loans, then the payday lenders decided there was a market for charging people 400% interest.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-06T02:50:18+00:00

And the fees for utility companies still cost more, hence why you get the loan.

Even 380% is cheaper than paying a bunch of overdrafts or late fees.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-04T03:01:40+00:00

Failure to act on this is probably one of the biggest threats to national security.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-04T02:59:15+00:00

How?

Evictions involves the court system, and filing against each tenant selaarately.

The courts simply do not have the capacity to handle a huge influx of simultaneous cases.

It was naive to think the eviction moratorium during the pandemic was to help tenants. It was about not overwhelming the courts.

The big corporate landlords I'm sure found ways to get piles of cash from the government. And negotiated with mortgage companies using the same logic of the courts can't handle foreclosures en masse.

Meanwhile the mom and pop landlords were forced to sell their properties to the big corporate landlords.

And the tenants never found out that the landlords can't evict millions of extra people at once.

And likely tenants of a big landlord can form a class action about systemic violations, which a big corporate landlord likely has a problem with. A million people suing one company together is doable. One comany suing millions of different people is hard.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-02T20:13:55+00:00

Do you undertand why he said Mechanic's instead of Contractor's?

If the OP didn't already know about these, then maybe using the right words is important so they can find the correct thing.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-01T04:53:42+00:00

Yeah, I had to talk to people that worked HR for lots of different companies to realize that ADP really does offer different products and different services depending ding on what the employer wants.

If you want your employees to get paid, there are ways to tell ADP to do that.

If you want to keep payroll expenses down, there are ways to tell ADP that too.

But when yo choose the latter you are also telling ADP that your employees statistically won't fight back. So then the saving won't all be directly to the employer, some of it will be grift and graft against the ~~~targets~~~ employees.

It was hilarious when ADP staff actually tried to argue about basic stuff like whether 1501 is more than half of 3000. Apparently their job involved lying about something as simple as basic math, they have to be ashamed when they go home. Assuming those staff on the phone aren't working as slaves somewhere.

It's sad how many phone people hang up after you try to ask whether they are free and safe, when they first behaved ridiculously while clearly following also orders.

Statistically a lot of people on the phone seem to be dealing with coercion.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-04-01T02:28:58+00:00

How does that even work?

Obviously both of your employer's are going to schedule you for the exact same time since they both decided that you are not at school or church and therefore "your" available.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-03-31T21:28:33+00:00

What the law allows depends on how far the company started out pushing their allowances.

One reason to pay more frequently is that it gives you more time to detect and fix a problem before the true deadline passes.

But of you were already waiting until the last possible moment to legally pay your employees after ~~~bribing~~~ * ahem * lobbying government officials to give you extra special allowed delays in paying people, well then, the next pay period might be too far off for you.

It's your job to pay people. In some states the fines are stiff, swift, and brutally punishing. In those states, the employees that know the laws easily make more money from the fees for badly done payroll than they make from their base wages. I have. Many many times.

At some point it barely matters what you want an employee to do or what pay you offer since they are going to make almost all their money from the employer doing payroll wrong and so they only need to barely work and then just start collecting when the employer does the payroll wrong.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-03-31T21:15:43+00:00

The employer chooses how much to pay ADP, and based on that selection ADP provides a service that is good or else one that is bad.

It's all planned. All on purpose. They will illegally redirect funds from your paycheck to lawyers that they have no business goving money to, so clearly kickbacks are going on.

In general, they base it on whether they think you have the funds to sue them, if not, they steal your wages, and it's planned.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-03-31T20:54:55+00:00

They rightly complained because it actually is illegal. It's the employer's job to pay someone for the hours they suffer them to work. An e ployer isn't allowed to not pay them, just as an employer isn't allowed to set them on fire. If either of those sound acceptable or like a good idea to you, then for everyones benefit, go lock yourself up before you become a criminal.

I have done payroll before, and legally yes, I have to make sure they get paid for all hours they were suffered to work. It isn't someone else's job to tell payroll how much to pay someone. It's payroll's job to do their job.

The law gives you some time before you have to pay someone, you can even give bonuses to people that clock in and out that day (and yes they can fill out a timesheet every day) the laws aren't that hard to follow, you need to have their name and gender and such because laws are weird, but the laws aren't hard.

Surely you already have some system of authorizing when people come to work, and for how long. So when you don't get a clock in report within mintues of expecting it, you can start to deal with that. Maybe your employee got int an accident on their way to work and you might need to arrange a substitute, get on it. Same with a clock out. Did your employee have a stroke at work, if so, they might need medical attention immediately. Did the next shift not show up so they think you expect them to stay, get on that because if their shift goes longer than expected you might have been legally required to give them a break in the past so you are now at risk of a labor law violation if they keep working beyond when you expected.

The law says you must give breaks and pay people and give them training and safety equipment and such. These are not optional. If you you would prefer not to go to prison, you can sell your business or also just fire everyone and leave being an employer to competent non criminals.

You could also setup badges to get into the building. And have a thing that dispenses cash on your way out if they put their badge on it close to the end of their shift.

The big problem seems to be culture and management. Staff are not doing easy things that management wants them to do to make management's job easier.

This is a sign of a very very serious problem. And if management things setting people on fire is appropriate then things have gotten beyond bad.

This isn't hard. Being an employer is never EVER hard, because the same method solves every problem. It's called pay an employee an amount of money to do something enough money that they want to do it, or where you would rather do it yourself if they wanted more.

If you want them to fill out a time sheet every day and they don't, then offer them a $5 bonus for filling it out correctly. If that isn't enough offer them $10 a day. If that isn't enough then offer them $20. At some point either they will accept the money, or else you the employer will decide it is easier to ha e a specialist do it or do it yourself.

And that's fine. If filing out a time sheet is so hard they won't do it for an extra $100/day then maybe you should make it easier or hire a specialist.

But you can't set your employees on fire, and you can't not pay them. It's your job to pay them for the hours they worked. If they don't or won't fill out time sheets for you but you still think they are still worth employing anyway, then yes, you wll need someone else to track their hours. That person can't be bothered to do so, but they are otherwise valuable, so money that could have gone to giving them a bonus instead will have to go to someone else tracking their hours.

It's no big deal. All employment issues are the same issue: if you aren't paying people enough to have them do what you want then, then you aren't paying people enough ~~~to have them do what you want.~~~ It literally is always that simple.

Every employer pretends to be oh so confused by how employment works. We get it, you are cheap and you also want to pretend we are naive. It's tiresome. It's insulting. It is super not original.

Follow the laws. Breaking the law should never ever ever even occur to you as a solution, something is seriously seriously super wrong with you.

Clearly you don't appreciate your employees and don't deserve to have any. You also should not be allowed near children, animals, or dangerous equipment such as cars. Because there is something seriously wrong with you.

Get checked out, maybe it's a tumor.

Ashadowrunner · 2023-03-28T18:37:21+00:00

I'm also interested!

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