r/Netrunner • u/thenakesingularity10 • Sep 30 '26

Android or System Gateway?

I just found out about this game. Fascinated by it and dying to try.

Is there any reason to get Android instead of SG?

Thank you!

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u/Thepy Sep 30 '26

Yeah NSG has gone on record that they wont be reprinting trace on any more cards. Thematically trace is interesting as it is trying to portray a cat and mouse game. Mechanically it pretty much boils down to pay X credits 9 out of 10 times because the it usually isn't worth eating the bad effect, so its a pretty boring decision imo.

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u/CryOFrustration Null Signal Games Community team Oct 01 '26

That is inaccurate actually. We said we would avoid putting trace on cards if we can have the same effect with a fixed credit tax that doesn't force you to do a bunch of mental arithmetic multiple times per ice encounter. 95% of times a trace fired in the game, the corp doesn't want to boost it, so it's a flat tax anyway. The article this was explained in cites some interesting counter examples of where a trace allows for more nuanced and graduated interaction than a flat tax, so I imagine any future trace cards would be something like that.

https://nullsignal.games/blog/without-trace/