【原文】别人对碟客/超链与一些程序的互动的看法

[马非鱼]

Herr Brackhaus and Top Dog, you guys nailed what I meant, yeah.  I look forward to seeing one of my players start the game with a deck with 14 Sleaze, along with a LOG of at least 8, and be unable to be found by anyone.

I realized of the threads about TMs and Data Trails, this would fit in best here.  It's rundown of a large number of the cyberprograms and how I feel about them in relation to the decker/technomancer dichotomy.

• Baby Monitor:  This is how it should be.  This is a program that has a specific, useful utility function.  What is good is that you can check your OS without it, but it's easier and better to have the program.  It doesn't unlock a function for you, it improves upon it.  This is what all the cyberprograms should be like.
• Biofeedback:  And here we have, already, exactly how they should not be.  Biofeedback is a basic part of the matrix!  It's in every edition, and it's why the matrix is supposed to be so damn dangerous.  This program is a direct feature (being able to do real damage) that should be a basic part of matrix-going, but TM oddly cannot do on their own.  Why isn't there a Complex Form that does biofeedback?  I mean really guys.  Maybe Resonance Spike wouldn't be such shit if it at least was physically painful.
• Blackout:  Same as above.
• Fork: Jesus christ is this powerful.  This is one of the only ones worth actually taking Resonance Program for.  Should this be something all TMs can just do?  Hell no!  But I mention this as an example of another problem I have with cyberprograms--  Wildly varying power levels.  I have never seen a decker not use this multiple times in every run.
• Lockdown:  Being link-locked is another basic matrix function, I feel.  This is clearly a utility program--  It's not something a TM should have to pay a submersion for.  Especially when, if they have their heart set on Resonance Program, Fork and Signal Scrubber are available.  But if you waited until you had those...  Would this be worth 19 Karma?  No!  It's not even worth 13.
• Sneak:  Doing it right again.  This is a good program that doesn't add a new function, but instead offers a potent defense against something most people try to avoid entirely.  Another one I could see Resonance Program maybe getting...  But that's grasping for straws.  I'd like to see an Echo that, along with something else, included the inability to be pin-pointed in meatspace as easily.  It fits the nature of TMs.
• Wrapper:  Another new function.  Arguably this can be done with that...  Weird "resonance illusion" Complex Form, but that CF is so vaguely worded that it's impossible to say what it's meant to accomplish.  You could argue that this isn't really a new function, and just alters "Change Icon" an amount, but that's not really the case.  Change Icon is almost entirely flavor--  I can make my Persona an angry moose but that doesn't mean people would think it's a moose's icon.  Wrapper allows you to actually make the matrix read the icon as a different kind of device.
• Cat's Paw:  New functions!  I have never had a player who didn't ask if they could do this somehow.  It's also a basic thing.  I don't understand why a special program is the only way to upload a bunch of spam and AR graphics as an attack.  I might houserule this to be something that can just always be done instead of a normal Data Spike.  I mean, Crash Program is its own action instead of Data Spike, and you can Spoof Command or Control Device something to do literally anything it's capable of...  If you can Spoof Command glasses to say, tint everything green, or turn someone's Commlink language to Swahili, then Cat's Paw shouldn't be a specific cyberprogram.
• Evaluate:  You mean this isn't just an ap you can download?  Why?  Why is this minor thing a cyberdeck only function?  Why can't I just have something like the "Gizoogle Black" app on my commlink that will do the same thing?  This is something technically illegal, sure, but...
• Fly on a Wall:  Taking a break to say I think this one is great.  It is a great way for hackers to still be capable of long-term spying without it being exactly the same as the way TMs can.
• Hitchiker: You actually have to get this as a TM if you want to do a Deep Run as the team's matrix specialist.  This annoys me.  It really annoys me.  Wanna experience the new full-party Matrix runs!  Deckers, only less money than you spend on energy drinks a month.  Technomancers, better get ready to meditate and reach a new level of enlightenment!
• Tantrum:  Like Cat's Paw, it's not something that should need its own program to do.  It's just being tricky with hacking.