What's the problem with capitalization and bold? Out of curiousity more than anything else.

edit: and italics also...

In "Fields of Fire" page 81, under 2nd edition rules, Ambidexterity was a skill. Your offhand penalty was determined by the difference between the combat skill that you were using and the rating of your Ambidexterity skill. This skill could only be bought during character creation at 3 Skill points per point of skill, and can be raised using the normal rules for General skills (in practice, most people bought it at 1 and increased it later using Karma, because it was cheeper). In addition, the standard +2 for using a second firearm still applied, so it was a virtually useless skill.

Thus, the adept power of Enhanced Coordination was simply "Improved Ability" for the Ambidexterity skill.

Two-weapon fighting was a Special Skill that corresponded to the particular weapons you were dual-wielding, and limited how much combat pool you could add to the test. So something like "Rapier and Main Gauche" or "Dual Kris daggers".

Except that there is very little correlation between Build Points and Karma. A build point can be equal to a point in a skill (anywhere from 1 to 9 Karma), a point in an attribute (anywhere from 2 to 12), or an amount of resources (anywhere from 900 nuyen/BP to 70,000/BP). If you are using BeCKS, it's not so much of a big deal, since your Edges and Flaws are bought using Karma-equivalent points, and it sets a real Karma cost on how to purchase them*.

10 Karma for gaining a new edge or losing a point of flaws is a bit on the high side, but I would put that as the base cost of simply buying the flaw off or purchasing a brand new edge without doing any sort of associated roleplaying. In general, edges and flaws should be gained/lost with roleplaying or OOC negotiation with the GM/gaming group ("If my character spends a lot of time with yours, will you introduce me to your Friends in High Places", that sort of thing), and such interactions should result in either a reduction in the Karma Cost or no associated Karma Cost at all. The PCs in our group certainly gained extra contacts and extra enemies that way...

* This is why it is usually simpler in the long run to have the character creation mechanic and the character advancement mechanic analogous in some way. It's an advantage that GURPS, Champions, and other point-based systems usually have.

Just because there's no exact and easily defined correlation doesn't mean that there's no correlation. Generally speaking, a character built with 1250 karma will easily be able to duplicate the abilities of a 125 BP character and still have buttloads of karma left over.

You can sacrifice points in such a way that makes the edge cost more than 80 karma, but that's usually not the case, and shouldn't be taken as so. Pretty much like how you shouldn't allow players to buy edges for 1 karma per point just because they could've chose to give up a bunch of level 1 skills.

I didn't say there was no correlation, nor did I imply that 1 build point was equal to 10 Karma points. I'm simply stating that there is a wide range of Karma values for a single build point depending on what you are spending it on. The rules state that to lose a flaw, you need to roleplay it and spend 10 Karma per Flaw point. The game makes it more difficult to "buy off" your flaws than it does for you to receive a benefit at character creation, and I believe this decision was deliberate. The rules also do not state an exact value for an Edge, but instead states that they should only be gained at the GM's discretion and through roleplaying.

If that's the case, I don't recall ever saying anything to the contrary that would warrant such a statement.

Oh, and I know what the rules are. That doesn't mean that I have to agree with them.