A more fun (seems to me) modified version would be as follows:
Tatütata
Program
Cost 0 | MU: 1
Criminal •••
Each ice gains “↳ End the run” after its each subroutine.
That way it would still be 0 credit install to face-check everything but not without cost, and company may still surprise runner when the chance arises. Also keeping the program on the table will bleed the economy heavily in the long run (that is, if breaker is still relevent of course) and potentially enhances sentry’s ability to deny entry, so runner will have to make the meaningful decision when to trash the program. OR they can simply build a deck around face-check and bypass walls ninja decks.
I see were you are coming from, but I wanted to make a blue equivalent of Bankhar. Bankhar lets you not even facecheck but also pass each outermost ice, and often times benefit you (steelskin, strike fun, aniccam etc.). I still feel the idea above is balanced, since it also makes it more expensive to break ice unless you uninstall the program. But you are correct: it takes the fun out of resolving subroutines. How about this: It gets the clause “the runner cannot uninstall this program during installation”.
Bankhar (Tsakhia "Bankhar" Gantulga · NetrunnerDB)
Resource-Connection
Cost 1
When your turn begins, you may choose a server.
During the first encounter each turn with a piece of ice protecting the chosen server, whenever the Corp would resolve a subroutine, instead they resolve “[subroutine] Do 1 net damage.”.
I looked into it and I don’t think it’s nearly as powerful as the original Tatütata you posted.
- Bankhar: Only one encounter on a chosen server, which means one face-check maximum each turn.
Tatütata: Multiple ICEs might be face-checked and not neccessarily the outermost one of a single server. Runner may simply install Tatütata, face-check, install the right breaker, and face check the inner one within a turn, incredibly efficient.
- Bankhar: The runner might be punished with net damage for face-check.
Tatütata: Risk-free face-check, the cost is in the long-term economy, but usually only for 1 extra credit per encounter, the runner may never want to trash the program as it might just do much more damage to the company economy than to runner’s.
- Bankhar: The company can handle the resource type relatively easier.
Tatütata: Being a program makes the company harder to counter and also enables runner to find more ways to draw or salvage. (I’m getting goosebumps suddenly realizing we have a program called self-modifying code… There is a pay window AFTER ICE is rezzed… So by just adding the program in the deck you can prevent any damage made by face-checking. That just simply kills the fun for the company…)
Also I find the idea to give every faction a equivalent of an ability less attractive.
BTW I’m quite interested in the name Tatütata, I looked it up, says it means German police siren sound. Could you share how you named it? Or did I miss the flavor introduction part? I didn’t finish reading the whole thread.
What if you had a Weyland ID that was just, like, a whole country? Government Takeover is obviously the reference here. I don’t know if the runner should be able to interact with it because it’s still a pretty steep investment to get to the advancement threshold.
The Regime
Where doesn’t matter
Weyland ID: Puppet
45/12
You can advance this ID.
As long as this ID has at least 9 advancement tokens on it, it gains “Click: gain 3 credits.”
Long live.
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