From:	Norman McLeod <mcleodn@***********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Amerindian Expansion
Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:19:41 -0400

>>>thought the cost should go up some. But as with all expansions if
>>>we are limited to making runners that can only be as buff or
>>>balanced as the runners that are already present then it makes
>>>expansions kinda hard to create since you need to stay under an
>>>already specified and sort of limited "ceiling".
>>
>>If you make new runners more buff than old runners, the it makes all
>the old runners obsolete. Why use the old ones when you can use the
>new? All new cards should use the same paradigm used by the old cards.

The idea is to make runners of the same power as the old ones, but still
different and new, with new abilities and combinations of abilities, not new
runners who are just more/less/equally powerfull versions of runners that
already exist. Look at underworld. All of the cards fit those criteria.