[JustADude]

Okay. Thanks for the advice.

Is there a reason you don't want to install it directly? Additionally, can't I just have more than one hive of lower rating?

Because a Rating 1 Nanohive costs 0.75 Essence, but only 2 Capacity in a cyberlimb. Even a Synthetic Hand or Foot, which has the least capacity of any Cyberlimb, will fit a Nanohive, and only takes up 0.25 Essence.

[rungok]

Okay. Thanks for the advice.

Is there a reason you don't want to install it directly? Additionally, can't I just have more than one hive of lower rating?

Because a Rating 1 Nanohive costs 0.75 Essence, but only 2 Capacity in a cyberlimb. Even a Synthetic Hand or Foot, which has the least capacity of any Cyberlimb, will fit a Nanohive, and only takes up 0.25 Essence.

Well... That's a great reason. Okay so I want to do the Cybereyes for thematic reasons cause I know you can get all those things in a sweet pair of goggles. But that leaves me with 3 capacity open in them. Does anyone have any suggestions for what to put in them? I have all the eye based mods except the eye drone.

... Could I put my comlink in it? It might be a bad idea, my instincts tell me.

[JustADude]

Okay. Thanks for the advice.

Is there a reason you don't want to install it directly? Additionally, can't I just have more than one hive of lower rating?

Because a Rating 1 Nanohive costs 0.75 Essence, but only 2 Capacity in a cyberlimb. Even a Synthetic Hand or Foot, which has the least capacity of any Cyberlimb, will fit a Nanohive, and only takes up 0.25 Essence.

Well... That's a great reason. Okay so I want to do the Cybereyes for thematic reasons cause I know you can get all those things in a sweet pair of goggles. But that leaves me with 3 capacity open in them. Does anyone have any suggestions for what to put in them? I have all the eye based mods except the eye drone.

... Could I put my comlink in it? It might be a bad idea, my instincts tell me.

Check Augmentation, p38 and 39, for a couple more options.

There's an Eye-Light system that lets you see with Low-Light vision out to 25 meters, and gives you full illumination in about a 8" circle, focused on the center of your field-of-vision, at arms'-length.

Microscopic Vision will give you +2 to tests that require the manipulation of small bits.

There's also the Eye Laser system, which defaults as an infrared communication system (400 meters, immune to jamming), and has several plugins that can upgrade it. The plugins make it a targeting designator, a laser microphone, laser rangefinder, and a cutting laser. The Eye Laser costs 3 Capacity no matter how many of the plugins for it you buy for it, too.

[UmaroVI]

You can only put eye mods into cybereyes; you can't put a commlink into one.

You could get two rating 2 nanohives or something, but that eats up more Capacity and Capacity is good, because you can put stuff like Armor into cyberlimbs.

[Glyph]

For the cybereyes, get either eye light or vision magnification (whichever one you are missing), and save that last point of capacity to get retinal duplication, when you have a lot more money.

[Mäx]

Cybereyes are a very iffy purchase because you can just wear goggles that do the same stuff. If you get them it should be solely because you think they are cool - don't operate under the illusion that they are effective.

I have to disagree with this, low-light vision mod combined with eye light system is the best you can get for visibility mods up to range of 25m(plenty enought inside buildings) and that combo is only available for cyber-eyes.

[UmaroVI]

It isn't only available for cybereyes. You can just put the eye light system directly into your eyes for only .1 essence - half as much as rating 1 cybereyes. Everything else you care about can go into goggles/contacts/etc. There's also a number of useful things like T-rays and Scatter X-Rays that can't go into your eyes and thus you want goggles anyways.

The only good reasons to get cybereyes, IMO, are:

It looks cool, huh huh huh huh

You are a magician of a metatype that gets crappy natural visions, and you want to be able to target people with Thermo and Low-Light.

You give a significant amount of a crap about skills that benefit from Microscopic Vision, in which case getting a Rating 2 Single Cybereye for just that is worth it.

[Sichr]

imo you can also use LowLight googles/lenses, combined with flashlight in your hand/under barell

[UmaroVI]

People can see a flashlight, but eye light systems are invisible to other people.

[Sichr]

One would assume that if there is way to instal this kind of system into the cybereye, it would be possible to do so with flashlight...

[UmaroVI]

One would assume many things about technology in SR, but that doesn't make them true.

[Sichr]

sad but trues

[Mäx]

It isn't only available for cybereyes. You can just put the eye light system directly into your eyes for only .1 essence - half as much as rating 1 cybereyes. Everything else you care about can go into goggles/contacts/etc.

How exactly does that combination work, i think the goggles might  cause some interference  to the beam of light coming from your eyes

[UmaroVI]

If eye light systems are incompatible with goggles/contacts/glasses, that just makes them crap in general because you give up all the goodies that can't go in cybereyes or that are inefficient to put in them. However, there's no indication of this in the description of any of those.

[Tsuzua]

It isn't only available for cybereyes. You can just put the eye light system directly into your eyes for only .1 essence - half as much as rating 1 cybereyes. Everything else you care about can go into goggles/contacts/etc.

How exactly does that combination work, i think the goggles might  cause some interference  to the beam of light coming from your eyes

They could be polarized goggles/contacts/glasses.  Since the eye light system is polarized, you can set up a lens/filter that'll let the light though without issue. 

Edit- Light not laser