[Typhus]

Wow.  That actually explains a lot.  Thank you.

[Hephaestus]

see that's kind of the problem, it's more author by committee ... the primary reason the 6E CRB is so vague and contradictory about device limits is because I didn't include any in the first place, and I can only provide you insight on what I did write and what I intended for it to do.

Can we just have you to rewrite CRB6?

[Leith]

What about using a commlink's attributes for attack and sleaze? The book says this is a thing, but the way decks, jacks and links are written this seems wrong.

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

What about using a commlink's attributes for attack and sleaze? The book says this is a thing, but the way decks, jacks and links are written this seems wrong.

The intent is that you can only swap A and S back and forth, or only D and F back and forth.

[ZeroSum]

What about using a commlink's attributes for attack and sleaze? The book says this is a thing, but the way decks, jacks and links are written this seems wrong.

The intent is that you can only swap A and S back and forth, or only D and F back and forth.

Which isn't clear from the rules in the book, but was clarified by the author of the Matrix chapter; he goes by Banshee here on the forums, and he's got lots of great insights posted in various threads.

[Xenon]

The intent is that you can only swap A and S back and forth, or only D and F back and forth.

Not even if you have both a cyberjack and a cyberdeck?

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

The intent is that you can only swap A and S back and forth, or only D and F back and forth.

Not even if you have both a cyberjack and a cyberdeck?

Correct.

[Michael Chandra]

Actually, iirc, Banshee noted he INTENDED for it to be A<->S and D<->F but he lamented that CRB currently suggests it's free game between all four attributes. I do expect that to be either errataed or houseruled out, though, so I wouldn't depend on that for a build.

[penllawen]

Actually, iirc, Banshee noted he INTENDED for it to be A<->S and D<->F but he lamented that CRB currently suggests it's free game between all four attributes. I do expect that to be either errataed or houseruled out, though, so I wouldn't depend on that for a build.

Note also that it’s definitely neither an error or an oversight in the rules. It’s not “suggested“ - the rules explicitly state that stats can be freely exchanged in more than one place. So it’s equally possible it won’t get officially changed, as that’s a definite decision someone made that presumably overruled Banshee’s take. 

[Leith]

Actually, iirc, Banshee noted he INTENDED for it to be A<->S and D<->F but he lamented that CRB currently suggests it's free game between all four attributes. I do expect that to be either errataed or houseruled out, though, so I wouldn't depend on that for a build.

Note also that it’s definitely neither an error or an oversight in the rules. It’s not “suggested“ - the rules explicitly state that stats can be freely exchanged in more than one place. So it’s equally possible it won’t get officially changed, as that’s a definite decision someone made that presumably overruled Banshee’s take. 

Not necessarily, I thought the intent of the wording might have been swap A for S and swap D for F, presumably others did too. What the book lacks is clarity, and that may be unintentional. Especially since, if it is free reign, i don't see why you 'need' a deck at all...

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

Actually, iirc, Banshee noted he INTENDED for it to be A<->S and D<->F but he lamented that CRB currently suggests it's free game between all four attributes. I do expect that to be either errataed or houseruled out, though, so I wouldn't depend on that for a build.

Note also that it’s definitely neither an error or an oversight in the rules. It’s not “suggested“ - the rules explicitly state that stats can be freely exchanged in more than one place. So it’s equally possible it won’t get officially changed, as that’s a definite decision someone made that presumably overruled Banshee’s take. 

Not necessarily, I thought the intent of the wording might have been swap A for S and swap D for F, presumably others did too. What the book lacks is clarity, and that may be unintentional. Especially since, if it is free reign, i don't see why you 'need' a deck at all...

Yeah. Just get two used Cyberjacks, and you'd be a decker on the really cheap.

[Leith]

Or a commlink and be a really crappy decker on the really really cheap

[Michael Chandra]

Yeah. Just get two used Cyberjacks, and you'd be a decker on the really cheap.

Or four commlinks for a 3/3/3/3 array.

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

And while the rules CAN be read that way, I don't think anyone actually believes the intent is that you should be able to hack by juggling 4 commlinks

[Michael Chandra]

Eh, if a player has good enough athletics to literally juggle them...