One of the things I liked about Shadowrun when I first read it was the Augmented Maximum on attributes. It meant that no matter how many splat books are released, and how many bonuses could be accrued, it was always kept in check by the augmented maximum.
In SR5 the Aug max is replaced with an across the board +4. This is also fine, it's defined.
What I don't get is, with this Augmented Maximum, why there is the need to make so much cyber/bio incompatible with other 'ware?
I noticed this last night while converting characters from 4th to 5th. I have a character with Muscle Toner, Muscle Aug and a Suprathyroid. Pretty standard by all accounts if not cheap. While converting I noticed that Muscle Toner and Muscle Aug both now say they are incompatible with 'any augmentations that increase *attribute*. This includes Muscle Replacement.' However Muscle Replacement in the book simply says it's 'incompatible with other muscle augmentations, including toner and aug'. So, due to this, my character now has a nearly useless 100k piece of 'ware, providing a sole +1 to body (as none of the other 3 attributes stack). BUT the Suprathyroid itself doesn't say it's incompatible, so due to wording it in fact WOULD be compatible with Muscle Replacement, but not Toner or Aug. To me this makes no sense. Has anyone else noticed things like this? Is it simply a case of bad wording or is this section written as intended?