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- Humans naturally treat all other animals as inferior - while pets have luxuries, most Western societies take extremely poor care of their livestock, and developing countries are following suit. Because of this, it's predicted that augmented humans will treat regular humans as inferiors.

To point out that we would need to balance this out.

Move onto balancing, we need to have limits.
What would you think the limits would be to prevent a borderline advantage or disadvantage between power-wielding, humans, and augmented humans?

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Agreed, there need to be limits. Here's some of my ideas.

- While augmented humans can have things like mechanical eyes and prosthetic limbs, they can't have any augments directly done to their brain. This would make sense with current tech, because brains are really hella complicated and we're barely beginning to understand how they actually work. Because of this, it seems likely that human brains won't be easily "upgraded." In game, this would mean that humans and augmented humans would have roughly the same reaction time, short term memory, critical thinking skills, ect.
So they would be on the same "raw" intellect, though it would be true that augmented humans typically have a higher level of education. That being said, I'm sure we all know people that are dumb as a rock with a college degree and smart cookies that only have a GED to their name.

- Electronics are notoriously weak to water. Hell, even hot enough temperatures can weaken/warp steel. So, just because an augmented human could be covered in metal prosthetics, they wouldn't be able to godmode against someone with elemental powers - or even someone wielding a fire hose.

- Most bleeding edge tech for prolonging lifespans / augmenting organs has to do with growing human organs in a lab, not replacing organs with a mechanical thingymawatchit. Due to this, augmented humans would still have physical limitations like max heartrate / lung capacity - they wouldn't be superhuman. They'd still be vulnerable to the same diseases regular humans are, though they would have more money for treatments / better healthcare in the biased society.

- I can't see a way in which augmented humans would have an immunity against telepathic / mental attacks purely because of their augmentation?

I'm not sure if there are any other areas where we might need to add balancing rules.