I've noticed that sweat prices have come crashing down and even still, force nexus isn't too terribly expensive. This in turn has caused the 190-200% ME prices I have seen recently. At this rate I don't think the prices are going to drop a whole lot more but since there is a very wide availability of ME now, this could be Mindark's way of paving the way for new mindforce chips for us to use. Also, if you observe the economy on many chips, 2.0 for each piece of ammunition isn't all that bad and now economies may actually be making a positive turn for the good

I was having the same thought earlier. Heal chips and highlevel firestorm chips are more than just expensive toys

http://www.pe-wiki.info/Info.aspx?chart=Weapon&id=220

check out the theoretical econ on this chip... if ME comes down much further then we might see more hunting with this type of weap.

I would love to be able to hunt using say Nerve Blast or something. I love the idea of killing things with my bionic brain add ons. Good lord I am a dork.

Theirs alot of people using mindforce now iv noticed, take a look round nea's place as all the MF users healing and focusing the n00bs

the main problems of MF chips like Firestorm is the high skill requirement they need to be maxed, since they offer learning bonus
also the drop rate isn't the best, i doubt there are that many powerful FS around

in the case of heal chips the speed is bad
from the eco they can come close to some faps, but you have to stand still while you heal, with faps you can heal while you run
the speed is much slower
you can be interrupted with hits, so you need a focus chip too
best advantage beside looking cool is the range you have with heal chip
as supporting role in hunting team it is worth a thought, but if you are on your own, a fap would be better
and especially the higher chips need quite high skills to use them
the eco can be improved ofc if you sweat yourself, but a powerful heal uses 5 ME already, depends on how often you plan to heal, but can turn into a real serious sweating session

another reason why hunters prefer using faps are the skills, with hunting you gain Anatomy, so your fapping will improve automatically
heal chips can be supported with melee skills, and there are not THAT many melee users out there
its like you begin from scratch if all your skills are in rifle or handgun