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You need to ensure that you have a great System or even a simple jammer is going to cut your puppet strings, but let's put that on the backburner for a while.
Standard cyberlimbs come with Body/Strength/Agility of 3. Increasing an attribute up to the user's normal attribute maximum is an extra 1,500 nuyen per point (and it increases availability by 1). Increases above the natural attribute maximum and up to the augmented maximum are handled as cyberlimb enhancements, which I think is how you got the prices for your limbs. (SR4A p343 and Au p44 say the same thing.)
You're going to want synthetic limbs. Sure, you could go with a fully obvious cyberbody, but as has been pointed out Shadowrun people are scared stupid of Terminators (for good reason) and you're going to get more than funny looks, like everyone that meets you (except little children, stupid people, and the blind) will want to kill you or otherwise advertise your presence.
So, a cyberlimb (for an otherwise normal human) with a Body of 8 would be an extra 4,500 nuyen to raise Body to 6 (3 increases), the natural human attribute maximum. Then, 2 more increases to Body would be a rating 2 cyberlimb enhancement which would be an extra 400 nuyen, for a net cost of:
20k base synthetic cyberlimb (or 15k for an obvious cyberlimb)
4.5k to raise Body from 3 to 6
400 to raise Body from 6 to 8
24.9k Body 8 synthetic cyberlimb (or 19.9k for an obvious cyberlimb) with Body 8.
Now, you may or may not want modular cyberlimbs, which lets you plug-n-play different components like Captain Hook changes his hook attachments. It increases cost x1.1 -- just putting the option out there (additional components are extra). You might also want "optimized" cyberlimbs, which are purpose built for something (for instance if you get both legs as Ferrari Sprinter optimized cyberlegs, it adds +2 dice on Running Tests or Ultimate Champion which adds +1 dice to Unarmed Combat tests per optimized cyberlimbs or other optimizations. Any optimization adds 5k nuyen to the cost.
Now, you're building a body from cyberlimbs, so I'd go with normal 1-6 attribute limits, unless you had one (or two or all three) of the ways to raise an attribute's natural max (the SR4A exceptional attribute quality, the Au geneware quality, the RC SURGE quality). Since there's no meat to the body, I'd only allow the SR4A quality. So, you could have a limb with a Body of 14, for the low cost of base + 4.5k + 1.4k (and 20 BP to take the quality). Why BP? Because this allows incredible cheese -- you effectively increase your capacity for cyberware. Move by Wires wouldn't require an essence loss, just a capacity loss, so I'd treat this as your actual body, requiring you to spend BP (or karma) on appropriate qualities if you really wanted to cheese it up.
But I digress.
Standard cyberlimbs come with Body/Strength/Agility of 3. Increasing an attribute up to the user's normal attribute maximum is an extra 1,500 nuyen per point (and it increases availability by 1). Increases above the natural attribute maximum and up to the augmented maximum are handled as cyberlimb enhancements, which I think is how you got the prices for your limbs. (SR4A p343 and Au p44 say the same thing.)
You're going to want synthetic limbs. Sure, you could go with a fully obvious cyberbody, but as has been pointed out Shadowrun people are scared stupid of Terminators (for good reason) and you're going to get more than funny looks, like everyone that meets you (except little children, stupid people, and the blind) will want to kill you or otherwise advertise your presence.
So, a cyberlimb (for an otherwise normal human) with a Body of 8 would be an extra 4,500 nuyen to raise Body to 6 (3 increases), the natural human attribute maximum. Then, 2 more increases to Body would be a rating 2 cyberlimb enhancement which would be an extra 400 nuyen, for a net cost of:
20k base synthetic cyberlimb (or 15k for an obvious cyberlimb)
4.5k to raise Body from 3 to 6
400 to raise Body from 6 to 8
24.9k Body 8 synthetic cyberlimb (or 19.9k for an obvious cyberlimb) with Body 8.
Now, you may or may not want modular cyberlimbs, which lets you plug-n-play different components like Captain Hook changes his hook attachments. It increases cost x1.1 -- just putting the option out there (additional components are extra). You might also want "optimized" cyberlimbs, which are purpose built for something (for instance if you get both legs as Ferrari Sprinter optimized cyberlegs, it adds +2 dice on Running Tests or Ultimate Champion which adds +1 dice to Unarmed Combat tests per optimized cyberlimbs or other optimizations. Any optimization adds 5k nuyen to the cost.
Now, you're building a body from cyberlimbs, so I'd go with normal 1-6 attribute limits, unless you had one (or two or all three) of the ways to raise an attribute's natural max (the SR4A exceptional attribute quality, the Au geneware quality, the RC SURGE quality). Since there's no meat to the body, I'd only allow the SR4A quality. So, you could have a limb with a Body of 14, for the low cost of base + 4.5k + 1.4k (and 20 BP to take the quality). Why BP? Because this allows incredible cheese -- you effectively increase your capacity for cyberware. Move by Wires wouldn't require an essence loss, just a capacity loss, so I'd treat this as your actual body, requiring you to spend BP (or karma) on appropriate qualities if you really wanted to cheese it up.
But I digress.
#1 Where's the synthetic cyberskull? Why does the book only list an obvious one?
What's the price for response/signal software above 6? SR4A says that higher response/signal costs exponentially more. (4.578*e^1.106x for Signal and 160.3*e^0.652x for Response, according to Excel.) However, for a nexus, Unwired p198 says it's a linear cost. So, obviously we want a nexus in there, but how to get a higher signal/response than 6? System says that it's software, but I don't see a System program.
If a person didn't go with modular cyberlimbs, how long does it take to remove one limb and attach another one (to replace Ferrari legs with Ultimate Warrior legs or Climbing legs or whatever)?
Ok, links to a spreadsheet I created that calculates the cost for creating a new base anthroform (a cyberbody created out of cyberlimbs, using SR4A information). You should be able to download it at:
http://sites.google.com/site/banaticussr4a/
But thanks, I was just wondering.
More than meets the eyes..!
25,000, page 127, Augmentation. The entire proceedure is fairly cheap, especially if you get Second-Hand Standard Grade Stirrup Interface R1. Grand total of 14R,