Handedness and cyberarms, Should they make you effectively ambidexterous? Options

[HappyDaze]

Under the heading Standard limbs on page 343 of the limited Ed anniversary book it says. "On standard cyberlimbs, a cybertorso is required to have cyberlimbs enhancements with a rating higher than 3." At the end of the description of Customised Cyberlimbs it says "that in all other stats customized cyberlimbs are identical to standard limbs (I.e. Capacity points)."
So assumedly this also means maximum upgrade levels.
My reading of the rules, specifically "they allow the user to raise their starting Body, Strength and Agility attributes up to the character's natural attribute maximum" meant that the customized limb could, for a human for example have Bod,Str and Agi of 6 each no matter what the characters stats were( as their natural maximum in each of these is 6).
Is that right? The example doesn't really read like this though. Maybe in the rules were it says maximum it should read actual?

You are correct that standard limbs are under those restrictions, however customized limbs should not be restricted in a such a manner since the rule in question specifies standard limbs.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

You mean you didn't? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)

Even that is far from broken. The key limit is that if you get the full body replacement, there is not enough Essence left for Wired Reflexes and not enough money left for Synaptic Booster 2. Sure, a full cyborg has great armor, but he still has less impact in the samy role than the basic build.

Plenty of points left, all you gotta do is use Biocompatability, or an Adapsin Treatment (or both) along with Alpha Grade Limbs (That would be a .6 Essence Cost at that point if you used all 4, which leaves PLENTY of room After Adding Wired Reflexes that you will still have things that you can buy...

Keep the Faith

[Traul]

Plenty of points left, all you gotta do is use Biocompatability

That goes without saying. Before you call me on that, Born rich too.

, or an Adapsin Treatment (or both)

The one that states "should not be available at character generation" ? Whatever flies in your game, I guess...

along with Alpha Grade Limbs (That would be a .6 Essence Cost at that point if you used all 4,

It does not work that way, multipliers are applied successively. There is an example in Augmentation, p.32. This would make the cost for a limb 0.648.

But the big difference is you did not count the torso in. With it, you would need both Biocompatibility and Adapsin to fit the Wired Reflexes in, and then you hit the money cap, with only In debt left to purchase the rest of the gear.

[Mäx]

It does not work that way, multipliers are applied successively. There is an example in Augmentation, p.32. This would make the cost for a limb 0.648.

That exapmle has been stated to be wrong multiple times by different devs and is supposed to be fixed in the augmentation errata that still hasn't been released.
I didnt think there would be anyone left in dumpshock who didn't know that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

[Stahlseele]

You mean you didn't? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)

Even that is far from broken. The key limit is that if you get the full body replacement, there is not enough Essence left for Wired Reflexes and not enough money left for Synaptic Booster 2. Sure, a full cyborg has great armor, but he still has less impact in the samy role than the basic build.

i don't play SR4