| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Deckers, need new system |
| Date: | Mon Mar 25 04:50:00 2002 |
> That method will pretty much guarantee any half-decent hacker full access
> to any system below (and including) about orange 8.
That's exactly the problem I see with it as well, which is why I added the
second bit about only being able to do this for automatic operations. But
that way it doesn't really change anything, except for slowing deckers
down...
> I agree that there should be some point at which rolling is no longer
> needed - personally I'd set this at the point where TNs drop to zero. In
> other words if your utility rating equals the system rating, you succeed.
The problem I have with that is that it makes Computer skill irrelevant --
you too can be FastJack only by writing or buying enough rating 15
utilities.
> The fundamental problem that I can see with decking is the artificially
> high prices on programs.
For me, that falls under the same heading as the high cyberdeck prices. Be
careful what you say about this subject, else people may start taking it
personally :)
> Explain to me how any author is going to sell an
> attack program for 3 million nuyen (it's in the matrix book). Explain to
> me how anyone who needs an attack program at that sort of scale won't
> have the requisite skills to just nick it, or crack it and distribute it
> free?
Yep. My solution, though not an ideal one, is to divide program prices by
10. (BTW, I should perhaps mention for completeness sake that I've decided
to divide cyberdeck prices by 25 rather than 100 for my campaign.) That
puts software prices at a more realistic level, IMHO, because you're paying
little money (maybe a hundred nuyen) for fairly low-rated programs, while
the top-of-the-line ones are still pretty expensive -- but not ridiculously
so.
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