QUOTE (Karoline @ Dec 8 2010, 05:19 PM)

No, they didn't. Second hand ware is a modification that can be applied to either standard or alpha grade ware. It is not a grade unto itself. This creates stupid things like used alpha costing the same as normal but giving a discount and being able to grab a standard cyberlimb and then stick used standard cyber into it for half price.
Its only a 4% discount, with possible role-play disadvantages (quirks in the fuctioning, old files / visruses buried in the ware, people reacting negatively because you have used cyber). Hardly a game buster.
Plus, its not even a 4% discount if you interpret the rules the same way as they are supposedly done for stacking discounts in the errata. For example, bio-compatability plus alpha-ware is -30% (-20% plus -10%) to essence, not -28% (80% x 90%). By the same logic, used alphaware would be -0% (-20% plus +20%) to essence.
What would make sense is slapping a stiff availability limit on used cyber. Something like nothing above availability 8 or maybe 6 can be found used (at least not at character creation). Used alphaware should also be really rare (people don't upgrade alphaware as much), so availability x 1.5 normal would make sense.