QUOTE (kzt @ Mar 9 2009, 03:17 PM)
This sadly seems to be missing the part about how you make it at home from parts you salvaged from your toaster. Buying a box and writing software isn't exactly what we are talking about in SR.
kzt... you're trying to equate something in the real world to an imagined world where EVERYTHING is computerized. I mean come on, when your fraggin underware has a computer, then you know reality got tossed out the window!
To everyone else, why would commlinks be the ONLY piece of gear that you need to upgrade one step at a time? I don't hear anyone saying: "Well to get Wired Reflexes 3, I have to upgrade my Wired 1 to Wired 2, and then to Wired 3... DAMN that's fragging expensive!"
No, I would think that if the writers were thinking step by step upgrade of the commlink then they would have corrected it in the errata or through the MULTIPLE printings of the BBB. I mean they DID fix the "If you have a cyber commlink then you get a SIM module for free*." in later printings of the BBB.
* = I STILL think that if you have a cyber commlink then getting a SIM module built in is NOT game breaking. I mean it can be built into a cyberlimb.