Social Software Killed the Face, Sad Face about Empathy Software Options

[Edge2054]

My buddy just picked up arsenal and I seriously don't understand how something like emotion software could be introduced into the game.

Now everyone can be a face for the paltry sum of 3k nuyen or less then a full build point at character generation.

Currently my character rolls about 12 dice on social skill tests, this is five charisma dice, tailored pheromones, and social skills. I'm not a min/maxed character by any means but it works for our campaign.

But... for 1 build point you can buy empathy software that equals half my skill dice before factoring in skills or charisma. This basically puts my character out of a job in many regards.

So... from what I gather from this new precedent is either the writers no longer want teams to use face type characters or they expect everyone to roll 18 plus dice for skill tests.

We don't run a min/maxed campaign for a reason... they're retarded. In another thread concerning dikoting it was mentioned that dikoting was never specifically mentioned because it became a must have. Emotion software has become the new must have for social characters and frankly I think the writers were smoking something when they put it in.

I generally love the stuff you guys put out but as a long term shadowrun fan... seriously, who came up with this lame ass idea?