Trust Fund Quality

[velinion]

I was trying to add the trust fund quality, but it is a little difficult.
I can remove the cost of all lifestyles with

      herofield[acLifeMult].value = 0

but this doesn't take into account what level of trust fund is purchased, or what life style they have, or even if they have multiple lifestyles. A lifestyle offset (rather than mult) would be ideal, but I can't locate one.

So, is there a way to find out the sum of the character's lifestyle costs?
If so then something like (in psudo-code)

var costOffset as number
costOffset = selectedLevel * 5000
herofield[acLifeMult] -= (costOffset / currentLifestleCost)

should work fine. But I know of no way to get a current lifestyle cost.

the field acLifestyl stores the name of a (random) perchased lifestyle, but does not list purchased lifestyles, and therefore cannot even be used for validation.

Finally, the best functional alternative would simply by to offset the cost of the quality in BP by the cost of the appropriate lifestyle.... 9BP for Trust Fund (med) and 18BP for Trust Fund (high), but this messes up quality BP accounting (not significantly, since there are no 2BP qualities, but still... it seems ugly, plus it would only show the lifestyle as monthly on the char sheet, instead of permanent. And making it negative enough to purchase 100 months of anything would trigger warnings about negative qualities above 35BP.

Any ideas from anyone a little more familiar with the scripting language and Hero Lab in general? Am I missing something obvious?

 

[cryptoknight]

Technically Permanent Lifestyle is 100 months of a given lifestyle. So I'd consider having it as two separate qualities.

Trustfund (Medium) -- Bootstrap 100 months of Medium Lifestyle
Trustfund (High) -- Bootstrap 100 months of High Lifestyle

Which I tried to do by Boostrapping middle (what is middle? it should be medium) lifestyle and setting a stackQty value for a field to 100. No go, not sure now.

 

[Mathias]

As noted in the Future Plans section of the FAQ (help menu...Shadowrun FAQ), there's a lot of lifestyle stuff still in the works, so you may want to hold off a few weeks on lifestyle-related work until they're finished.

 

[velinion]

As noted in the Future Plans section of the FAQ (help menu...Shadowrun FAQ), there's a lot of lifestyle stuff still in the works, so you may want to hold off a few weeks on lifestyle-related work until they're finished.

Good idea. Thanks.

 

[thedarkelf007]

The 100 months does not automatically translate to permanent lifestyle in the tool.

 

[Mathias]

The 100 months does not automatically translate to permanent lifestyle in the tool.

That's what I mean by the "Guest cost for a lifestyle, shared lifestyles, permanent lifestyles" line in the future plans section of the FAQ - I didn't have the time to properly implement that. (Actually, it'll be a checkbox on the lifestyle customization form, rather than having to enter exactly 100 of them).

 

[cryptoknight]

Yah I know it doesn't do it in the tool, but the tool also doesn't seem to have a useful way to subtract a month of lifestyle either.

 

[Mathias]

Yah I know it doesn't do it in the tool, but the tool also doesn't seem to have a useful way to subtract a month of lifestyle either.

Option 1 - delete the lifestyle, and it will bring up a dialog asking you how many of them you want to delete - it will default to the whole stack, so change that to only delete 1.

Option 2 - once you've switched to Advancement mode, go to the Journal tab, and use the Monthly Expenses option below the table.