Netrunner: Mills lied, Whizzard died

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 1, 2018 23:05

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We online together? Good. Listen up, because I don't have much time. This is the deep net, kid, and there's killer ICE around every corner. Not sure how you got past that chummed Pop-Up Window, but here we are.

NetRunner? Yeah, been called that before. Back in the day, some analog fogey named Richard Garfield tried to make a game out of what we do. Didn't take, but now the reality is front-and-center, kid. It's us versus those bastards in the megacorps, it's asymmetrical warfare, and we're gonna bring it to them. They want to get 7 agendas in the books, and we wanna expose 'em. Who gets there first? Well, that's all part of running these here nets. Here, lemme see your jack.

DL this into your grip, it'll give you the basics, straight from the source (Great video from FFG outlining gameplay)

Good news is, our tools ain't exclusive. We run nets in what's called an LCG. That means no randomization, you pony up the

and you get exactly what you're looking for, every datapack the same.

Hold on a second... got it! Alright, let's jack out, meet me at Wyldside in meatspace, we can continue this convo...

Start here, kid. This'll get you the basics. Nothing flashy, but some of the best tools come out of this here rig, and you'll be leaning on it forever, it ain't goin' nowhere. (Rotation Schedule)

Which ain't to say there aren't NAPD jokers watchin' over us, controlling what exactly is restricted (Current Most Wanted List). But that's the nature of government, ain't it? Lemme give you a tour around:

Anarchs

That's me, kid. Straight smashin' windows and breaking ICE all day, every day. We're always broke, but our tools are the strongest if we can get them online. We use viruses to corrode the Corp's defenses and take it to the house with wanton destruction and faustian deals with overclocked rigs. It's seat-of-your-pants hacking, but drat is it fun.

Criminals

Now over there's the mercenaries you don't mess with. Willing to kidnap, rob, even kill for a

. But as the saying goes, "If the cash is there, they do not care." You wanna get in good with them, I promise you'll never go hungry. They're kinda on the downswing right now, but some of their tricks are unstoppable, and when you need that extra cred injection to install that new breaker? Crims are the ones who got your hookup.

Shapers

Who, those freakshows? Nah, they're harmless. To us, at least. Corps, though... hoo boy. They think running the net is just the next step of human evolution. Shapers do things I didn't even think was possible in cyberspace. Turn one program into another, transform what's in their grip to more useful cards, and if your rig goes on the fritz, nobody's better with an Allen wrench getting things up and running (heh) again.

Alright, now that you're a little more acquainted, lemme drop some resources on you:

This tool lets you manage decks, nice and clean-like: https://www.meteor.stimhack.com/
Of course, the http://stimhack.com/ mothership is a fine place to hone your skills and learn to run better.
You'll want a playground to build your decks in, and none's better than NetRunnerDB for building, saving and sharing your creations.
Of course, if you want real-time stress testing, head over to jinteki.net for a nearly full-featured online experience of slinging netrunner decks.
Wanna try your hand at designing your own datapacks? Hit up GRNDL.net

https://twitter.com/trashjackson/status/764481029834813440

Greetings, fellow executives. Welcome to the 4th Annual Conference on NetRunner Avoidance. I see some new faces in the crowd; let me introduce our core members:

Jinteki
Jinteki is a Corp that's into human experimentation and cloning. If you're looking for the faction that has all sorts of nifty bluffs and mindgames, this is the one for you. However currently all those mindgames are coming at a steep price. Their ICE is usually the most leaky of all the Corps and setting up that perfect "death trap server" is useless because the Runner can probably just break everything you put in front of them. Still whenever Jinteki plays a card into a remote server there is a threat that it will probably hurt runners who go for it, and isn't that what it's all about? By far the most painful corp for our little runner problem.

Haas Bioroid
Ahh, the Corp that's built on combining brain with machine. Their Bioroid ICE is unique in that it allows Runners to spend a click to break subroutines(usually). HB is the most well rounded of the Corps. They have good economy, both from Assets and Operations, cheap to expensive ICE that can be a real pain to break, and also have the ability to Fast Advance using Biotic Labor. We should strive for Director Haas' excellence.

NBN
My beloved Global News Network, NBN is focused around tags and traces. While our AstroScript Pilot Program may have been limited by the powers that be, our SanSan City Grid still threatens Fast Advance if left on the Board. Our ICE has a reputation for being very leaky but has some non-life threatening effects that we use to gain more information about their opponents.

Weyland
Weyland is our wealthiest Corp supporter. Some say that they just want to kick people out of their homes so they can build a new skyscraper with a big shiny W at the top. That they are all about getting lot of money and using that money to make life miserable for runners. That they also like blowing up runners. When people talk about "Tag and Bag", they're almost definitely talking about Weyland. I say, "What's the big deal? Aren't runners all criminals?

Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jan 2, 2018

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Carteret · # ? Jan 2, 2018 00:07

you should change the pic to Core Set Revised for the fresh meat.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 2, 2018 00:15

Some useful NetRunner folks to care about :

StimHack amazing site for competitive NetRunner

Run the Net - Abraham Jopp (inventor of Dumblefork, NetRunner's answer to Ravfinnity in MtG)'s personal website

YouTube Channels:

Beyoken (Ben Ni) 2016's runner-up in Worlds, incredibly fun and nice guy. Accent is thick, but his discussions on the game are second to none. (Twitter: Beyoken)

Metropole Grid (Andre) Incredibly well-produced channel, and Andre plays affably and with an eye to new players hoping to understand the game.

Self-Modifying Code (Code Marvelous) Probably the most prolific player, his daily updates are great to see how the meta is evolving. (Twitter: Code Marvelous)

IceIceHedgeFund (Mark) An interesting channel, if only because Mark is a friendly and enthusiastic but not particularly good NetRunner player, so you end up screaming at your screen for him to run archives while it's full of agendas, only to have the corp play Preemptive Action the next turn. (Twitter: IceIceHedgefund)

Also, you should follow Fetal AI on twitter for good netrunner memeing and commentary

Carteret posted:

you should change the pic to Core Set Revised for the fresh meat.

Done.

Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 2, 2018

Shockeh · # ? Jan 2, 2018 02:35

Also, the Anarch ID probably shouldn�t be Noise.

E: Or HB - ETF!

Quidthulhu · # ? Jan 2, 2018 03:16

Are those runner IDs custom art or rewards from tournaments or what because they are sexy af

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 2, 2018 03:25

Quidthulhu posted:

Are those runner IDs custom art or rewards from tournaments or what because they are sexy af

Edward Kim is a plastic alt-art from some major event. Gabe is a full-art you can get on eBay for ~$60. CT is literally a photoshop of DeviantArt onto a full-art frame.

Sorry.

Somberbrero · # ? Jan 2, 2018 03:31

Quid I'll send you that CT if you pm me your address.

Quidthulhu · # ? Jan 2, 2018 03:34

Somberbrero posted:

Quid I'll send you that CT if you pm me your address.

Is it legal in play? :v:

fomo sacer · # ? Jan 2, 2018 05:03

Just make sure you have a copy of the official card with you in case anyone is a dick and go nuts. Some dude stuck a raw potato on top of his ID during top 16 of the world championship tournament this past year for weird internet reasons and no one cared as far as I know.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 2, 2018 05:10

Is Tyr's Hand finally good paired with Fairchild 3.0 (to guarantee the Brain Damage sub if they try to click through)?

Zephro · # ? Jan 2, 2018 11:17

Elizabeth Mills posted:

Is Tyr's Hand finally good paired with Fairchild 3.0 (to guarantee the Brain Damage sub if they try to click through)?

How do you even use Tyr's Hand? As in, what timing step do you rez it in?

edit: also, would it give them one brain damage or two? You spend your last click to break the brain damage sub; Tyr's Hand prevents that from happening; you get another chance to break the sub as per the FAQ, but now you can't because you have no more clicks to spend?

Baron Fuzzlewhack · # ? Jan 2, 2018 16:25

The subroutine will only fire once regardless of the click interaction, so one brain damage in your example.

They encounter, spend 3 clicks to break up to 3 subroutines, you rez Tyr's Hand and prevent one of them from being broken. They've already spent the clicks as a cost, so they have no more clicks to spend (on an average turn). They can still break it with a breaker if they are able to do so.

Deviant · # ? Jan 2, 2018 17:02

I'm back in the Netrunner thread to tell you your deck is poo poo and garbage but also to post this thing that I found.

http://netrunners.co.uk/forumdirectory/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=848&sid=0648ad5c683905341d96fd06a7aa6964

why

Edit:

Netrunner Erotica why is pleased to present the first in what may turn into a semi-sporadic-at-best why series of cards made more erotic why- or sinister - by the addition of the Patron Saint of Netrunner. why

Midjack · Midjack Dec 24, 2007

Deviant posted:

I'm back in the Netrunner thread to tell you your deck is poo poo and garbage but also to post this thing that I found.

http://netrunners.co.uk/forumdirectory/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=848&sid=0648ad5c683905341d96fd06a7aa6964

why

Edit:

Netrunner Erotica why is pleased to present the first in what may turn into a semi-sporadic-at-best why series of cards made more erotic why- or sinister - by the addition of the Patron Saint of Netrunner. why

When did Taylor become the patron saint of Netrunner? Did I miss a vote?

Deviant · # ? Jan 2, 2018 17:26

Midjack posted:

When did Taylor become the patron saint of Netrunner? Did I miss a vote?

all I know is I stopped playing in 2015, and then this poo poo happened.

i hold all of you directly loving responsible.

Midjack · Midjack Dec 24, 2007

Deviant posted:

all I know is I stopped playing in 2015, and then this poo poo happened.

i hold all of you directly loving responsible.

Way I see it, it's your fault for leaving!

Deviant · # ? Jan 2, 2018 17:35

Midjack posted:

Way I see it, it's your fault for leaving!

the cards were bad! the designer was bad! i only have so much energy to bully people out of doing stupid poo poo!

sonatinas · # ? Jan 2, 2018 17:38

Midjack posted:

When did Taylor become the patron saint of Netrunner? Did I miss a vote?

it's a UK thing along with the guy who makes giant vegetables

Midjack · Midjack Dec 24, 2007

Deviant posted:

the cards were bad! the designer was bad! i only have so much energy to bully people out of doing stupid poo poo!

Dude I was making a joke; I didn't realize how frustrating it had gotten for you.

Deviant · # ? Jan 2, 2018 18:12

Midjack posted:

Dude I was making a joke; I didn't realize how frustrating it had gotten for you.

so was I! it's hyperbole! loud noises!

but the game did get real sucky for a while. lucky me, sold my core 1.0s before core 2.0

Midjack · Midjack Dec 24, 2007

Deviant posted:

so was I! it's hyperbole! loud noises!

but the game did get real sucky for a while. lucky me, sold my core 1.0s before core 2.0

drat sunspots affecting my joke detector.

Edit:vvvvvv that's too good.

Midjack fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 2, 2018

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 2, 2018 19:42

419 is absolutely the best possible name for the new crim runner based out of Africa. It's sublime.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 2, 2018 21:10

How to play as Corp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTekDcdtVcg

Carteret · # ? Jan 2, 2018 22:16

That's just deviant. It's not personal, he just get really invested in cardboard.

Shockeh · # ? Jan 2, 2018 22:20

UK is basically the meme capital of Netrunner.

Deviant · # ? Jan 2, 2018 22:36

Shockeh posted:

UK is basically the meme capital of Netrunner.

it's my job to tell everyone else how much they suck.

how else would they know?

Baron Fuzzlewhack · # ? Jan 6, 2018 18:58

How do you make Adam not die a thousand tiny deaths against Jinteki decks? Or is that just a given bad match-up for him?

Voodoofly · # ? Jan 8, 2018 17:59

Baron Fuzzlewhack posted:

How do you make Adam not die a thousand tiny deaths against Jinteki decks? Or is that just a given bad match-up for him?

Brain cage and levy. Be careful early but know most of your hand is expendable. Once you get a big hand size just laugh as you waltz through a dna tracker to steal obokata for the win

For the record my adam deck split against two jinteki decks in a store champ this weekend

ZorajitZorajit · # ? Jan 8, 2018 18:21

I've got Store Champs coming up in a couple weeks. I'm almost certainly running Smoke on the runner side, Smoke best girl. But I really don't know what I wanna run corp side. Is there a decent glacier deck right now, I tend towards that play style.

CodfishCartographer · # ? Jan 8, 2018 18:48

Balls to the wall glacier Harmony Medtech

MJP · # ? Jan 9, 2018 01:09

If anyone in this thread is interested, I'm getting out of Netrunner and have a big lot to sell. Two core sets, doubles of Mala Tempora, True Colors, Creation & Control, and singles of many others. It's in SA-Mart: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3845925

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 9, 2018 16:06

Been thinking a lot about Paperclip. While not completely invalidating entire swaths of the corp card pool like Yog.0, it's still kind of oppressive in its own way by being the "you need a substantially good reason not to play this" card that all ICE choices are made on by the corp. I think it's probably next on the Restricted list, just because it's a little too good and too cheap at what it does.

It reminds me a lot of Lightning Bolt in Magic - not inherently broken, but just above the curve enough to be something that needs careful monitoring.

Lichtenstein · # ? Jan 9, 2018 16:16

It's funny because it's literally a better Corroder, period. I suppose it does cost twice the price, but it's still only 2 creds more which is a bargain for added functionality (install from heap, walking over multi-subroutine ICE).

I love that card, but I have no idea how they thought it's a good idea at the same time they knew Corroder is a problem already.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 9, 2018 16:52

Lichtenstein posted:

It's funny because it's literally a better Corroder, period. I suppose it does cost twice the price, but it's still only 2 creds more which is a bargain for added functionality (install from heap, walking over multi-subroutine ICE).

I love that card, but I have no idea how they thought it's a good idea at the same time they knew Corroder is a problem already.

I just don't understand why it doesn't work like the other two Conspiracy breakers (with maybe a little discount for barriers having higher str), $3 for +2 Str and 2 Subs

Lichtenstein · # ? Jan 9, 2018 17:00

It was supposed to be noticeably better than the other two, as fracters are Anarch's thing but then Noise hacked FFG's headquarters in retaliation for being phased out of tournament play.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 9, 2018 19:13

Predictions for 2.1:

-CI added to restricted list
-Paperclip added to restricted list

Zephro · # ? Jan 9, 2018 19:16

I think if they want to have Runner factions specialising in defeating certain ice types they should at least make those super efficient breakers have a hefty influence cost. That has the flavour benefit of emphasising that barriers are an Anarch thing, Code Gates for Shapers etc and the mechanical benefit that people might play fracters other than Paperclip occasionally

CodfishCartographer · # ? Jan 9, 2018 19:37

While I like the idea of specific factions being better at specific types of ice, I think in practice it kinda falls apart. Sentries are porous enough that corps don�t rely heavily on them, so Crims get a bit of the short end of the stick in that they�re not only good at beating the type of ice seen the least, but also the type of ice that often isn�t as critical to break. That being said, sentries need to stay threatening because of how porous they are, so crims don�t even get a super efficient sentry breaker - there�s no 1c/1sub breaker for sentries, for example.

Not sure how I'd fix it, since obviously there needs to be some kind of uniqueness to the factions. Maybe more focus on the styles of which the three factions break through the ice, rather than their effectiveness at doing so.

Shrecknet · # ? Jan 9, 2018 19:44

Zephro posted:

I think if they want to have Runner factions specialising in defeating certain ice types they should at least make those super efficient breakers have a hefty influence cost. That has the flavour benefit of emphasising that barriers are an Anarch thing, Code Gates for Shapers etc and the mechanical benefit that people might play fracters other than Paperclip occasionally

Yeah, honestly errata to Paperclip being 5 influence would be perfect, and would solve almost all my complaints (Smoke, an out-of-faction runner who uses stealth still uses Paperclip, which costs real money, because it's still cheaper is kinda ridiculous), especially since you only ever need to import 1 because of the heap-install trait.

CodfishCartographer posted:

Not sure how I'd fix it, since obviously there needs to be some kind of uniqueness to the factions. Maybe more focus on the styles of which the three factions break through the ice, rather than their effectiveness at doing so.

I like that idea. I think the heap-interaction of Conspiracy breakers and the derezzing of Bird Breakers are both cool and on-brand for the factions, but obviously the Bird Breakers are ridiculously weak since they were balanced around Temujin Contract existing and being just oppressive amounts of econ.

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Lichtenstein · # ? Jan 9, 2018 19:59

The fracter bird is decent if you can't spare the influence for paperclip. I like it because it fucks with Kakugo.