Granted it’s obviously not guaranteed but I see zero reason to believe she won’t get one. Also, Lukas has said before that he designs a runner and their console at the same time.
Oh, yes. I’d play that. I’d prefer 45/5, 2 link, no ability (other than the stealth influence thing).
DLR is an option, but you could always run Sneakdoor Beta. Maybe people forgot how good sneakdoor is and it combos well with nerve agent. In a deck where you’re making some of the ICE irrelevant it may make the corp spend a lot more time and resources than they want to keep you out of their hand. You could still run AS, but DLR is not consistent enough for my taste.
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You pretty much only need datasucker+X to make them defend archives, but you could layer that with more than two benefits without spending influence.
It’s a lot of influence, a lot of memory, and a lot of money. On top of that, sometimes you just run a lot of times and miss. It feels sort of like Keyhole, another card I really dislike. Gabe is the only ID that I think makes sneakdoor really very good as a plan A, and that’s because he often makes a ton of money off the runs and can emergency shutdown afterwards. On top of that, they have to overprotect actual HQ.
I don’t think sneakdoor is an awful idea, but I’m confident DLR is a lot better. You don’t need to play Siphon to play DLR, either. (Masanori/Josh B works fine).
Maybe try Box-E in Anarch with Duggar’s, Crash Space, and Origami? Holding half your deck in your grip seems like it could be good…might be too slow though
In case Crisium Grid becomes popular I think we are going to see a lot more HQ and R&D interfaces, since they are unaffected.
But the funny thing is, those are exactly affected by Enhanced Login Protocol. Starts to look more and more like a “lose-lose” kind of deal, doesn’t it? 
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So true, but for ELP you can actually combine the interfaces with Sneakdoor, Dirty Laundry, Inside Job, and others. In addition, they tend to help when playing against Nisei counters, since all runs are multi access, not just the one Maker’s Eye or Legwork. But then again, I am biased anyway, since I had such a good run with interfaces in the past weeks. 
It’s even got cool art. This card is going to be huge.
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Perhaps quest complete instead of dlr.
But I don’t think it so hard. Make a recursive deck b with grapple hook. Q for single sub ice. David, gh. E3. Parasite for the cheap ice.
I just don’t undestand hype about chronos project. Imho it is very weak situational card. In jinteki House of Knives can be scored at any point and deal 3 more damage. Clone retirment can be scored from hand, false lead can help finish after snare. Every of this agenda can be scored at any point without special conditions like lot of staff in runner’s heap. But CP should be scored after you trashed some of opponent’s corroder/they play lot of siphon/indexing. also if opponent is afraid of losing their heap he can use his clone chip after you start advancing your agenda.
Besides jinteki this card will compete with breaking news, hostile takeover and gila hands arcology. From my point of view it has some chance to appear only in HB decks at competitive level. But I’m still not sure that it’s much better then GHA.
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There are two commonly played ‘threats’ to PE style kill decks: Siphon/Vamp, and Deus Ex recursion.
Keyhole still kills it. And I wonder how it helps to break siphon chain while you are broken? Will you mushin it at first turn and hope that opponent does not check it until he has 3 siphon in archives?
Keyhole not really that popular in my meta. I haven’t seen a deck built around it in tourney play in some time.
If you only have to worry about hard-counters, I think your list is in a reasonable space. Well IMO.
I’m not sure how big a deal Chronos Project will be. Certainly a very powerful ability, but it’s an ability which is solely to neuter certain runner strategies, rather than further the Corp’s own plan. I’m not a fan of 3/1 agendas in general, simply for reasons of deck efficiency - they’re the least efficient to score and you have to stack more of them in your deck to reach the deck-building requirement. So I need my 3/1s to really be pulling their weight if I’m going to make that choice.
I think it is strong against event recursion decks, but the Parasite Runners can probably play around it a lot of the time by ensuring that it’s in play on the Corp’s turn as often as possible.
That’s not to say that CP doesn’t have a place, but I think you have to ask whether it’s worth the deck slots. It will be a blank in a lot of match-ups and you’ll be left wishing you’d just played a 3/2 instead of a pair of these and had the extra card slot for something else. A meta call, undoubtedly.
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Keyhole is not commonly played, and I wasn’t really thinking of Chronos as a counter to Siphon recursion. Siphon is having its own hate cards released. I was just pointing out it’s the other major threat to the archetype,
This is far too reasonable. I think we need another 100+ comment freakout thread on netrunner geeks about this card.
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I think the only decks that may like Chronos are Never Advance, namely Jinteki flatline strategies. For decks that don’t mind running many single-point agendas, it may be valuable to include 1 or 2. Anarchs and Shapers are almost always running some recursion. For Never Advance decks, there isn’t much risk to playing Chronos, for significant potential reward against certain decks. Runners are still playing Plascrete, after all. I feel like it’s worse for a Runner to run Plascrete right now than PE/Harmony flatline to run Chronos. By worse I mean Plascrete will be dead more often than Chronos.
People get overexcited about the best case scenario, when in fact 90% of the time Chronos is a blank 3/1 which means it’s terrible.
For me to even consider Chronos Protocol a card, it would have to give you a token that you could spend to nuke the heap at any time.
Another interesting option would be that it nukes the heap when stolen instead of being scored. In a scoring deck, feeding the Runner a 3/1 so you can open a window for a 3/2 or 5/3 is pretty reasonable.
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