Humanoid Pretenders are too expensive

[Jack Simth]

Here's a thought, probably too much work to implement, but a thought:

Suppose, instead of selecting a ready-made chasis, you bought individual pretender traits using design points: stats, size, advantages, disadvantages, multi-path penalty level, etcetera; then select a picture. Thus, if you wanted a VQ, you would buy posion immunity, a lifedrain attack, etherialness, immunity to cold, the undead disadvantage, flight, et cetera - all seperatly - then selected the VQ's picture from a list of available pictures (based on size?) and typed in a description for her. Special abilities (e.g., prince of death's auto skeleton summoning, VQ's auto vampire thrall summoning, extra supply, random good events, et cetera) could be included in the list of advantages. That way, rather than needing to balance packages, you only need to balance individual advantages and disadvantages by changing their price.