Personally, I think you're over-building the energy cloth. As I mentioned to Chadu on his LJ, it's mostly to produce an Unsable Molicules analogue for the game so his teammates powers don't destroy their clothes. The effect that it has in V&V is negligable, so I'm not comfortable statting it out in anything other than Champions, which would insist on such statting out.
The Personal Environment Generator is another such item, mostly an excuse for us to be traipsing around on outside the New Philadelphia dome without bulky space suits. Perhaps it's the narrativist in me, but I balk at being charged serious points for a device created to extend the GMs range of story options. "The 5 minutes in Vacuum" function is just a dramatic element as well, so we're all more comfortable flying into space without bulky suits.
But you're right - he's rich because he can invent cutting edge gear, which then becomes state of the arit, which he can then afford without points because he's rich. These are the perils of super-intelligence in supers games.
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Date: 2008-02-18 09:26 am (UTC)The Personal Environment Generator is another such item, mostly an excuse for us to be traipsing around on outside the New Philadelphia dome without bulky space suits. Perhaps it's the narrativist in me, but I balk at being charged serious points for a device created to extend the GMs range of story options. "The 5 minutes in Vacuum" function is just a dramatic element as well, so we're all more comfortable flying into space without bulky suits.
But you're right - he's rich because he can invent cutting edge gear, which then becomes state of the arit, which he can then afford without points because he's rich. These are the perils of super-intelligence in supers games.