Hoarding Money?

Pretty simple, pay people to do things for you, even if you could do them easily yourself, ESPECIALLY if you could do them easily yourself.

Pay for information, allies, friendship, etc etc. Use it on other people.

What jwimpeney said***

The key to utilizing money properly is contributing to the player economy not the NPC economy. There's a myriad of ways to do that from just hiring a runner, to supporting a play run shop, or just good old fashioned bribes. If all else fails and you're just flush with chyen use it to push a full blown plot that completes an objective of yours.

When the staff says you shouldn't hoard money and spend it on junk such as clothes and biomods, they mean you shouldn't spend it all exclusively on yourself nor treat the game as some kind of dress-me-up game, in my opinion. It is completely fine for a corporate person to get trendy suits and spend lots of money on it, specially when they are hiring someone else to do it. It is also fine for a street-sam to dump loads of cash in a new set of armor and cyberware. In general it is not about how you spend your money but where you spend it. If you continuously promote player industries by letting your currency fluctuate across other different players by hiring their services or purchasing their goods, good. If, contrary to that, you're just waiting week after week until your bank account comes to look like a phone number, and deciding to not hire other players, but instead try to do shit by yourself you may want to reconsider how you are playing the game.

In Sindome things don't come to who can wait the longest and hoard more paychecks, but to who is willing to take risks and earn things, typically by taking them from someone else. Players who aren't fond of this playstyle will frequently see their gaming experience stagnated for a game like this. All in all, Sindome is only rewarding when you are creating roleplay for others because that will most likely reciprocate back to you and you will be involved in fun stuff. Don't think only think in terms of "how to win by achieving material wellbeing" because what is important is the means, not the goal. This is not to say you should forsake all your material goals: they are fine and actually keep plots moving around, but how do you want to get that full set of Xo3 armor? Saving paycheck after paycheck or scheming and plotting your way around it?

I've yet to see biomods offer much to the RP between players other than MOOSEX and "Oh, would you look at that?" comments.

Really, it's just a way for you to stand out a bit more, it doesn't actually produce RP, and since most of the process of making them is NPC or GM based, it's not really creating much RP for other people to create them either.

Let's be real, when people say RP they mean interaction with other people. So any use of money that goes toward encouraging more interaction between more players is money well spent.

I'd regularly spend money for information, for simple jobs, and if I had excess money I'd pay out more than any reasonable person would, because paying more for things is a status symbol. It sends a message and it makes people want to do more business with you no matter what your politics are. They will begrudgingly do shit for you even if they hate your guts, and THAT is the essence of creating conflict. It always starts off as something small like that, and it builds, and all while this is going on, you're putting money in other people's hands to do stuff with and it's possible they're spending it to work against you, and that's good for them and it's good for you. You're basically funding your own rivalry and a return on your RP investment.

That's the role play people are talking about.

You can care about how your character looks without being a retail-buying barsitter who ignores theme, and you can play to theme without being an action/combat-oriented character.

I think working paycheck to paycheck to afford things isn't themely. If your character wants something and doesn't make enough money, they should do other things to make more money.

I think playing Sindome and only collecting paychecks is a big complaint. More so than doing things to make a lot of money and hoarding it.

Since player notes are supposed to be used to portray your characters mindless, I guess in that light, only we can judge you. :P

Even then, it'd probably take an admin to talk to an author about what they have planned, where they're going, etc to *fully* understand. Otherwise it's only part of the story ever.