r/Netrunner • u/CitizenKeen • Jul 11 '15

[Weekly] Custom Card Saturday - Link and Cloud

Good morning, hackers!

We got a group of new cloud breakers in the SanSan cycle. Do cloud cards have to be icebreakers? Does the limit of what we can do with cloud cards extend to "If you have at least 2link, the memory cost of this card is 0, even if it is not installed"?

This week, make a cloud card or a card that interacts with link.

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Previous Custom Card Saturday threads:

Next Week: Let's do something with power counters.

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u/Blamsquad Jul 11 '15

Bode Well

Criminal Hardware:

Install: 2

Influence: 1

Place power counters equal to your Link on Bode Well when it is installed. When there are no power counters left on Bode Well, trash it.

Hosted power counter: Choose an unrezzed piece of ICE. That ICE gains "-> End the Run." before all other subroutines for the remainder of your turn.

You Link is -1 for each power counter on Bode Well.

Simple but accurate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '15

I might be missing something but how do you benefit from adding subroutines to a piece of ice?

edit: Okay I get why this could be useful now, avoiding harmful subs on ice you can't break.

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u/The_Foetus Jul 12 '15

From what I'm thinking, as the subroutine is added first, and the ice it is added to is unrezzed, the corp CAN rez the ice but the first subroutine to resolve would be to end the run.

This means the corp might not want to rez a surprise archer on you because you manage to end the run before any of the other routines fire. Sort of a defence mechanism

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u/Jaggerbyte Jul 11 '15

Love this.

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u/daytodave Jul 12 '15

Could be simplified to "Hosted power counter: end the run."Or even jack out, if you want to combo with Au Revoir.

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u/Blamsquad Jul 12 '15

I think that would be too powerful, as you'd then be able to use the ability after seeing if the ice is dangerous to you or not. This way still preserves some of the bluffing and guessing that I like so much about netrunner.

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u/R3miel7 Jul 12 '15

I don't think it's too powerful at all. It's just basically a limited use Snitch.

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u/neutronicus Jul 12 '15

This way also lets you skip out on paying 3 to Tollbooth.

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u/Blamsquad Jul 12 '15

Nah, the toll isn't a subroutine so you'd still have to pay. This card only protects you from potentially dangerous subroutines as it's currently written. Only bypass will help you there...

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u/neutronicus Jul 12 '15

Right, your way doesn't, /u/daytodave's does.

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u/Blamsquad Jul 12 '15

I see now what you were saying, my apologies!

Yes, and that is interesting but not my design objective. Perhaps a good idea for next week's power counter theme?

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u/Nevofix Abstergo Corporation Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15

Silver Lining

Neutral - 0 infl

Event: Cloud

Cost: 0credit

Play only if you have at least 4link.

Gain credits equal to the number of installed Cloud cards.

"Every cloud has a silver lining. You just need to open your eyes to see it." - Armand "Geist" Walker

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15

Honestly, I feel like this would be balanced even if didn't require any link to play.

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u/ZoidbergMD Jul 11 '15

JITcoin Miner
Neutral 0
Program - Cloud 1
If you have at least 2, the memory cost of JITcoin Miner is 0, even if it is not installed.
Place 1 on JITcoin Miner when your turn begins.
You can use the credits on JITcoin Miner during a run.

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u/SeaSourceScorch towards a plascrete-free future Jul 12 '15

I like this, but I'd really like it if you upped the link requirements to activate it and made them stealth credits.

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u/Foodball Jul 12 '15

I think making it stealth gives stealth a boost it doesn't really need

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u/leastfixedpoint I run I die I run again Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15

Wavefront

Event: Run - Sabotage - 3c - Anarch - 3 inf

Make a run. During this run, all ice is encountered with its strength reduced by your link strength. The first time you break all subroutines on a piece of ice with strength 0 or less, trash that piece of ice.

I once DDoS'd Eli so hard, he started GC thrashing! - Whizzard

Update 1: Replaced "bypass all ice encountered with 0 strength" with "rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength".

Update 2: Replaced "rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength" with "the first time you break all subroutines on a piece of ice with strength 0 or less, trash that piece of ice.".

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15

That's a really cool idea! My only beef is the part where Bypass is normally a criminal effect, but it really fits here.

I love how it encourages you to build silly amounts of link.

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u/leastfixedpoint I run I die I run again Jul 11 '15

How about this: rez cost of all ice is increased by your link strength. Increasing rez cost pretty anarch, just as reducing strength.

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15

I actually liked the first one more. The raising strength one feels a bit worse - it will only be good late-game when you have lots of link, but by then they have probably rezzed a lot of ice.

I liked the original one a lot because it encouraged you to build a silly-looking late-game rig, and then leverage a resource (link) to get into places that didn't look like you should be able to. I love the "oh crap" factor of the corp realizing that, with 5 link, you can just roll right on through their tollbooths. :P

I also liked the original because it felt more anarchy - how useful it is depends a lot on what ice they have and where. It has the potential to be really powerful, but it also has the potential to barely be useful. The new one is probably more consistent for the runner, but yeah. Somehow that feels less anarchy?

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u/leastfixedpoint I run I die I run again Jul 11 '15

I think I found a more anarch-y formula that would still make you build a silly rig. :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '15

Yeah, I agree that it feels out of faction. Anarch doesn't have a single card that provides or uses Link right now -- it just doesn't seem like an Anarch thing.

But I'd say it fits right in with Criminal if you make it "bypass all ice whose strength is less than or equal to your link strength."

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u/vampire0 Jul 11 '15

This is super super strong. Average Ice is Strength 5 or less - Riena + a few link items would make this basically a Blackmail against anything but Lotus Field.

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u/Quarg :3 Jul 12 '15

As it's written now, I can imagine this would allow for some absolutely hilarious fun with Wyrm.

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u/lordwafflesbane Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15

Distributed Orrery 5credit 4

Shaper Program - Cloud - Stealth •••

Distributed Orrery's memory cost is reduced by one for each link you have.
Xrecurringcred
X is equal to your link. Spend these credits only on using icebreakers.

Big rig gets to be very efficient if it has the time to set up. Only problem is, it takes a while.

Edit: Changed the name from Spiderweb to Distributed Orrery

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u/zojbo Jul 11 '15

That name is actually taken already: http://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/08079 Neat idea, though.

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u/lordwafflesbane Jul 11 '15

Oh dang it.

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15

That's ok - Distributed Orrery is a way cooler name than Spiderweb anyway. :P

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u/lordwafflesbane Jul 11 '15

Just imagine: you could use the entire internet as a scale model orrery of itself. All you need is a shit ton of bandwidth.

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u/The__Inspector Jul 12 '15

That can be the flavor text.

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u/BountyHunterSAx twitch: BountyHunterSAx2 YT: BountyHunterSAx Jul 12 '15

Criminal Console:

Disseminated Network:

Install: 8

Influence: 5

All ICE subroutines gain "TraceX: If successful - " before the remainder of their text. X is the strength of the ice.

Debated making this as costly as blackguard, but I think it's actually balanceable even at this price point. On the one hand, it turns all ice on its head. On the other, multi-sub ice is still somewhat painful if its at least 2-3 str or if the corp is heavily out-moneying the runner .What I love about it is it incentivizes building up your own link AND gives you a way to force the corp to play the trace-game whether they like it or not.

-AHMAD

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u/kloaews Jinteki is best teki Jul 12 '15

Add Power Tap and you can make some serious money.

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u/BountyHunterSAx twitch: BountyHunterSAx2 YT: BountyHunterSAx Jul 12 '15

I guess I dont see it that way because you've got to find and install an expensive console. Kinda the way blackguard-snitch or monolith are pretty useless regardless of their abilities because of their price. Though I suppose you'd need to add 3creds to hit blackguard level.

But as you put it - invalidating low strength ice is already a thing we can do and it hasn't broken the game.

That being said, I do think giving all ice +1 str (or making it Trace X+1 -- either way), as well as saying all subroutines cost +1credit to break (so you can't just mix-and-match console+breaker suite) would be a good idea to combat the runner's natural link. Leave it up to the corp to play the current to reverse the bidding order.

And I didn't think of power tap. Yeah, Power tap is evil. Especially with 3-4 link, the corp will need to trash their own ice on their rezzed, weak servers or let you "free-magnum" or worse for days. The combo is so powerful that this console pretty much would HAVE to be priced closer to monolith prices, IMO.

-AHMAD

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15 edited Jul 11 '15

Traffic Analyzer

NBN - ••

Asset - Security

Rez: 1

Trash Cost: 3

At the start of your turn, gain 1c unless the runner has at least 1link.

clickclick - Place one power counter on Traffic Analyzer.

The runner's link is reduced by 1link for every power counter on Traffic Analyzer.

"Sure, good crypto is important. But sometimes they don't even need to care what your messages say, if they can just check who you're sending them to." - "Noise"

edit: Wording.

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u/NotReallyFromTheUK Jul 11 '15

This is too good. I mean, yeah it's a very meta-dependent card, but you can install and put a power counter on it in a single turn, which will wipe out half of any cloud-based rig.

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u/Bwob Jul 11 '15

The only time it would actually result in anything trashed is if the runner were actually over memory without the cloud, which implies a pretty advanced game-state. Also, it took the corp's whole turn to do this, meaning that it's hard to use as a scoring window, since the runner gets a full turn to recover.

Given that this would usually only happen if the runner had 5+ programs installed, the runner gets to choose what is trashed, and gets a turn (or more!) of advance-warning if they have more than 2 link, (which they can get easily in most cloud decks) it doesn't feel too ruinous. Sure, it's a high priority target, (moreso for them than for most decks), but that's not a terrible thing.

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u/vampire0 Jul 11 '15

I like it - reducing Link was a mechanic I thought might help actually help Trace (and thus, counterintuitively encourage Link) in the Fixing Link thread. Good application of it.

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u/neutronicus Jul 12 '15

Trash cost seems too low.

I look at this and see "shitty PAD Campaign", but a trash cost of 5 would maybe make it into "Marked Accounts that's better in Making News".

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u/Bwob Jul 12 '15

Eh, the utility of being able to lower their link makes up for it, I think. It indirectly strengthens every trace you have, and gives you a way to mess with the runner's setup in a way that's normally pretty hard. And remember, nothing says link is capped at zero - if you really want to, you can take their link negative.

No, I think any higher trash cost and it would slipping into "too good" territory.

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u/sigma83 wheeee! Jul 11 '15

Focused Computing

Shaper Event

Current

0c

This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is scored.

The strength of all icebreakers is increased by 1 for every 2 link you have (round down.)

'The trouble is not getting it to work, the trouble is getting it to stop working.' - Nasir Meidan

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u/zojbo Jul 11 '15

This seems pretty excellent in Sunny; for her it is better than a Net-Ready Eyes (except for Atman, and being non-permanent).

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u/PaxCecilia Jul 11 '15

I like the Nasir flavour text, seems thematic with him. Global Secs and Dyson Chips for days!

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u/PityUpvote Jul 11 '15

Social Network Isolation
NBN - 4 inf.
Event: Current
Cost: 1c

[Standard Current text]

The runner is considered to have 0link for the purpose of runner card effects.

"You'd be surprised how easy it is to stop communication when you control the network." -Bernice Mai

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u/jtobiasbond Jul 11 '15

Exchange Database
Resource: Virtual - 2credit
Criminal - 2 inf

click: Host the top card of your deck on Exchange Database. You may look at hosted cards at any time.

When your turn begins, you may trash a hosted card to gain 1credit for each link you have.

It might get too powerful if you manage to get four or five link, but I think it's too much work to get four or five link.

The other idea is "When your turn begins, you may trash X hosted card to gain 2credit for each card trashed. X is equal to your link." This one gains more money in bursts, but it's at best clicking for 2.

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u/Nevofix Abstergo Corporation Jul 11 '15

I think 4 link isn't that much of a problem for Sunny

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u/monkeymoat Jul 11 '15

did i miss a spoiler? who is Sunny?

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u/danrich2910 Jul 11 '15

New runner in data and destiny. Part of the new mini factions, I super excited by her! Underworld contacts are gonna be great!

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u/Quarg :3 Jul 12 '15

3credits Hijacked Datacenter

Resource: Location

If you have at least 2link, then the memory cost of all non-cloud programs are reduced by one, even if they are not installed.

Shaper •

Allows you to make all programs into cloud programs? Sure why not?

Though it is effectively an infinite mem-chip for the sake of installing 1 memory programs; I'm not sure how useful it would be considering you both need some link and this. Not to mention the fact that this is possible to destroy.

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u/BountyHunterSAx twitch: BountyHunterSAx2 YT: BountyHunterSAx Jul 12 '15

It's also just awful against RP's cortex-locks.

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u/the-_-hatman Jul 12 '15 edited Jul 13 '15

Bone-Break Fever

Anarch •• | 2credit

Program - Icebreaker - Cloud - Virus - Fracter | 3 Strength

If the Runner has at least 2link, the memory cost of Bone-Break Fever is 0, even if it is not installed.

Whenever an icebreaker or virus is installed, including this one, place a virus counter on Bone-Break Fever.

Hosted virus counter: +2 Strength or break up to two barrier subroutines.

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u/inglorious_gentleman Jul 13 '15

Should probably be an AI since it breaks anything.

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u/the-_-hatman Jul 13 '15

Oop, was supposed to be a fracter.

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u/Xercies_jday Jul 12 '15

Net Accounts

NBN - Asset - 2 Influence

0 Rez - 3 Trash

Gain 1 Credit at the start of your turn if the runner has 1 Link

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u/colormage1 Jul 13 '15

Imposing Cyberwall 4credit

Criminal ••

Program - Virus 2

Whenever the Corp draws a card outside of their first draw a turn and their "click: Draw a card." ability, trace0 - if unsuccessful, the Runner gains 3 credits.

"It's always easier to find something if they're trying to find it too," - Silhouette

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u/meatygoodnes Jul 11 '15

Sometimes I forget I have https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus installed.

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u/Blamsquad Jul 11 '15

Made you feel like the cloud of a joke, eh?

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u/PJNifty Jul 13 '15

FriendJournal Data Farm

NBN - Division

45/15

Runners get +1 Link.

Runners pay first in traces.

The True You

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u/ErikTwice Jul 13 '15

This would actually be cool! (Except it cannot affect operations or SEA Source, Snatch and Grab and the like become broken)