Bullet costs between Vampire Kingdoms & Vampire Kingdoms: Revised

[narcissus]

What happened to the economy in Juarez between Vampire Kingdoms and Vampire Kingdoms Revised?

In VK, the "Complete Wilderness Outfitter" sells a box of 96 normal 9mm bullets for 30 credits. Silver bullets cost 70 credits (I assume this is for a box, since silver bullets cost 60 credits for a box of 96 at the Halloway Armor & Outfitter in the same book).

In VK:R, the "Complete Wilderness Outfitter" sells a box of 96 normal 9mm bullets for 6500 credits!! And silver bullets cost 70 credits EACH!

In GM Guide (published between the two books) a box of 48 rounds of normal bullets costs about 20 to 50 credits.

What can possibly explain increasing the cost of regular, SDC bullets by a factor of 100?

[Killer Cyborg]

What page of VKr are you looking at?

[Grazzik]

For regular SDC bullets probably a typo. Lazy writing or poor editing to just shave a couple hundred credits off the cost of a box of silver bullets. My guess is they didn't ask why, at 70 credits each, silver bullets were so expensive.

For silver bullets, just do the math...

.45 ACP is 230 grains
230 grains is .526 oz
Silver must be 85% pure (WB1r pg 77)
Assume 15% weight is 85% silver coat = .067 oz pure Ag

1oz Ag in Mexico = 1000 credits (WB1r pg 102)
silver for the coat of 1 bullet = 67 credits
assume cost of core bullet = less than 1 credit (from most other sources)
total material cost to manufacture = 68 credits

medium caliber (.45) silver bullet listed at 100 credits retail (WB1r pg 102), so not unreasonable given cost of materials

silver ammo is discounted 30% in places like Juarez (WB1r pg 102), so retail price 70 credits, no profit once labor, energy, and licensing costs are factored in unless silver coat is reduced to 10% of bullet weight to save on the priciest material cost

So poor editing is the most likely answer as to why the cost of a box of normal SDC bullets is jacked up to 6500 credits (WB1r pg 164).