In SR4A you kept track of the essence loss from these two sources separately and the lower of the two was halved. is this still the case?

nope.. flat costs for both, but some values may have been tweaked

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Yeah conversion to SR5 has quite high mortality rate for Sreet Sams and other heavily augmented people

It's Magicrun! Don't you dare to complain, puny mundane!

*cough* MagicRun™ *coughs*

Keeps Legal happy

*Squinty eyes* we don't take kindly to legalese around these parts, chummer.

Think you meant Chummer, or least I hope you did.

That... was a mental image I didn't need. At all.

Where's that 5 gallons of brainbleach at...

Then mentioning that particular implant DOES get a wireless bonus probably won't help

Fixed.
What an awful typo!

Meh. Weakling.
I have to judge stories that the authors have intentionally written in an attempt to squick me.

The south park guys would do that intentionally just to have the network censor black stuff out left and right.

They said the worst day of their life was when the script came back one time with the following stamp 'Approved as written'.

So I've heard.

I can send you the Charlie Brown frontyard orgy and mass-murder story if you'd like.

Heh, sounds good.

I also follow Weapon (Charlie) Brown, where the funny pages just got realz.

But back on topic....

There are some threads discussing the using of the used cyber for lower startup costs, but you pay more ess for it, and there is discussion whether it's really valid for chargen (personally I go with yes, gangers would not always have access to first run gear)