clarification of Tacsofts Options

[makari]

so I'm running into a lot of questions about tacsofts and how they work

1. it states that in order to be a member and receive bonus's you must contribute a number of sensor channels = rating x2, which in general I'm fine with, except when I run into situations like this: I have a group of 5 runners, plus 4 drones I'm going to run the software on, 4 of the runners and the 4 drones are capable of giving the full sensor channels... however the last runner (mage) is currently only able to put in 6 sensor channels... my problem is that according to these rules the mage gets no bonus and is not able to participate as a member... that just seems wrong, he's able to contribute 6 channels, and he's able to take advantage of all of the input from the other 8 fully capable members... it seems he should atleast be able to get +3 (where his 6 channels would allow him to participate) without hindering the rest of the group since whether he's in or not wouldn't affect them at all, and since he's able to take advantage of all input, and his lacking input doesn't affect the rest of the group, it only helps, I really dont see why he wouldn't get the full +4.

2. it states that "Drones sensor systems also count; each drone can supply a number of sensor channels equal to its Sensor rating." but this doesn't really make sense to me since in the line before it states that a person with cybereyes can count each upgrades as a single channel, so why wouldnt the same rule apply to drones? is a drones thermal and low-light upgraded camera somehow less effective than equivalent cybereyes? why would the drones only count as 1, where the eyes would count as 3? just seems horribly inconsistant to me if I'm understanding it correctly.

I'm fine with possibly having to houserule these things, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something, anyone have a better understanding of tacsofts have some comments?