TL;DR: Make chrome look like chrome, and make it accessible.
TL;DR: Make chrome look like chrome, and make it accessible.
Advantages:
Steady work repairing shitty mixer chrome for chrome docs. Also gives an entry for immies looking to enter the chrome biz and can't afford the expensive startup costs (repairing chrome that is)
Chrome for mixers! It's CP!
Disadvantages:
Chrome doc's perhaps too op with this?
PDS for dayz, mass murder all around.
And there are elaborate IC reasonings (speculations, hypotheses, etc) about why clones are so cheap. As far as game power goes, though, clones don't come out enhanced in any way, so, comparing their price to the price of cyberware is not that relevant. A cybernetic arm shouldn't be perceived as remotely the same thing as an organic replacement arm (vat grown, with or without a whole body along with it).
What I'd rather see happen with cybernetic limbs is, for them to confer enhancements which justify the prices. As well as for them to be described.
In the future there will be different models, updates and finishes for people to choose; for now they only change your description.
As far as prices go, they should be expensive if we don't want you to use it. ;)
Yes, I am suggesting that corpies will have access to better gear than mixers and have a tactical advantage because of it, I am also suggesting that I intend to try to make it so the badlands has it's own unique gear and creating an actual demand for things that come from Withmore, just like we will be creating a demand from Withmore Residents for products that come from space exclusively.
Similar to how clothing can become damaged (and requires a tailor), damaged cybernetics should/could require a cyberdoc to repair. Would dovetail nicely into an updated combat scroll/post-combat assessment as well of where damage was received.
I like your idea but not a cyberdoc. You'd need a techie for that.
Like people who use computers, it doesn't mean they can repair them.
So I like your idea, but not for doctors, for techies. Same skill more or less, different application I would think and there'd need to maybe be another skill to help feed that ability. I don't know.
Maybe the doc could do minor tweaks, but for repairs, when we get to that point, I see them not knowing what to do and sending the person to a tech to repair it.
Shitty cybernetics would best be implemented with the existing "aging" effect. Wherein, cybernetics become useless unless not properly refrigerated. A talented enough cyberdoc can get that fucked up rusty hand to install on you....it just won't be pretty.