We are 7 sessions into our campaign and getting the group kitted out in MilSpec armor wouldn't be very hard to do.
After 7 sessions, your guys have:
- Contacts that have access to Milspec equipment
- Contacts with enough Connection rating to get 18+ hits
- Characters with enough money to charge whatever the contact wants
Your rewards may be a little off-balance then.
Um..
- Don't need Contacts to gain access, the Face is better at it.
- Looks like you are making a mistake, Book says:
To purchase an item off the books, make an Availability Test. This is an Opposed Test of your Negotiation + Charisma [Social] versus the item’s Availability Rating. If you win the Opposed Test, you find the gear at the listed price,.... - Nuyen is super easy to come by in 5e. a Bog Standard mission (for us at least)is 3k plus net hits(typically 4-5)[3500] plus the multiplier (ours is minimum 4{3 from largest DP of 12, 1 from speed/subtlety}) That is 14k per 'runner times that by the 5 missions we've been on = 70k
Perhaps we are dong something wrong?
Face has Cha 9, Negotiation 6[8] spec Black Market, TP 3, + Edge gives him 23 DP vs. 16/18/22 DP? Sure we'll take that.
Nuyen per mission is base 3000 + (net hits on negotiation) then multiplied by the highest DP/4 of the opposition, + other 1 point modifiers.