Organ Harvesting
For Fun and Profit

A gruesome concept but a very simple income gameplay loop idea to support the starting steps of a grey or black market medical career outside of the typical nurse and paramedic track (or in addition to them). Have two or three "organs" inside a body which are basically just do-nothing coded implants described as organs which can be removed from corpses through ripping mechanics like cyberware, and which can then be turned into certain NPCs for a small cash payment. For example 1000c per. This would count against the income cap like any other automated source and would serve as an alternative to crates but more directly catered to underworld medical-ish archetypes.

While I don't think this would solely enable back-alley ripperdocs to be more of a widespread archetype, it would lay some groundwork for other possible future tweaks to do so, get more players more familiar with the mechanics and game feedback of surgery and ripping, and offer a bit of themely income to the more macabre side of the underworld. Body snatchers lurking at the fringes of Wicks drop sites, like vultures eyeing their next meal.

We don't have nearly enough ripperdocs in the game, nor do we really have facilities for them to use. Giving newbies a place to start with organ harvesting seems like a great idea to me. As long as you can only earn up to the cap it's also no worse than running crates or drugs for chy so I don't see it imbalancing things either. You can hit that earnings cap in two minutes if you know what you're doing without this system.

Here are a few things this would enable:

WCS making illicit deals to hand over corpses to rippers

TERRA trying to break up organ harvesting rings

TERRA taking bribes to leave these rings alone

Rippers hiring security so they aren't mugged

Gangs messing with rippers who are after organs

Rippers paying the gangs off so they're left alone

Syndicates attempting to create an organ harvesting monopoly

Muggers trying to find ways to steal organs anyway

Dips having another thing to reach into pockets for

Hiring guides to get to those who buy harvested organs

ICly organ harvesting could be frowned upon and not really something a greeter mentions to an immy, for fear of scaring them right back out the gates again. The amoral individual who purchases these organs should also be located somewhere out of the way, like the park or maybe even the sewers. Walk the path at your own risk.