Agenda Rulings
AI Chief Financial Officer
Though the card
text is not specific, you shuffle into R&D all of the cards stored
in HQ and the Archives. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Artificial Security Directors
If the difficulty
of an agenda is reduced to zero or less, it must still be installed to
be scored. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
Scoring multiple
Artificial Security Directors produces a cumulative effect (i.e., scoring
two will reduce the difficulty of Black Ops agendas by 2). (Sparky on Executive
Extraction, Netrunner-L, 6/25/96)
Corporate Headhunters
Note that while
the first ability mimics brain damage, it is not actually brain damage,
so ignores effects that would prevent, remove, or otherwise interact with
brain damage. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Data Fort Reclamation
You may use
additional bits from your bit pool to rez and install the cards. (Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 10/18/96)
Note that you
are not gaining actions in order to construct the data fort, but simply
constructing it as a result of scoring Data Fort Reclamation. So this card
does not supply actions you can forgo in order to get rid of virus counters,
for example. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Employee Empowerment
The additional
draw provided by Employee Empowerment is a start-of-turn effect separate
from the normal draw; the Corp can draw one card and look at it before
deciding whether or not to draw another card. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/28/97)
Executive Extraction
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.
Fetal AI
The Runner
may choose not to pay the 2 bits and not steal Fetal AI; Fetal AI is still
considered to be accessed. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96
Genetics-Visionary Acquisition
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.
Ice Transmutation
If the Corporation
scores Ice Transmutation and uses it on a piece of ice that is subsequently
derezzed but not removed from play, the ice remembers that it was affected
by Ice Transmutation. If that same card is uninstalled or trashed and later
replayed, it does not remember the change. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
This effect
doubles all subroutines provided by the ice itself, even those that are
generated after Ice Transmutation takes effect. It will not double subroutines
provided by other abilities; for example, two Ice Transmutations don't
double he subroutines the other Transmutation provides. However, it will
double subroutines that are not actually printed on the card; for instance,
Ice Transmutation will repeat the subroutines generated by the card text
on Minotaur (note that this is a reversal of a previous ruling). (Official
Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Marine Arcology
In order to
get the benefit of Marine Arcology, you must have two actions immediately
available to you; actions must be consecutive and they must all be spent
on the same turn. (Sparky on South African Mining Corp, Netrunner-L, 5/16/96)
Please Don't Choke Anyone
When any effect
owned by the Corp does preventable damage, Please Don't Choke Anyone can
prevent that damage to gain a PDCA counter (e.g., the Corp could prevent
the damage done by a Mastiff counter to gain a PDCA counter). (Tom Wylie,
8/26/97)
The Runner
has the opportunity to prevent damage before the Corp can use Please Don't
Choke Anyone to prevent that damage to gain a PDCA counter. If the Runner
prevents it, then it is not successful and no counter is given. (Skipper
Pickle, Netrunner-L, 8/26/98)
Priority Requisition
"At no cost"
does not cover additional "above the rez cost" costs (cf. Caryatid or Digiconda),
since these are not part of the rez cost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)
"At no cost" means you waive the normal bit/action cost for whatever the
action is, as well as any special costs listed in the text; all outside
penalties still apply. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)
Project Babylon
The Runner
only scores 1 agenda point for stealing Project Babylon, regardless of
the number of advancement counters on it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)
Security Net Optimization
The fort gives
the bonus to ice installed on it before and after Security Net Optimization
is scored. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)
Security Purge
"At no cost"
does not cover additional "above the rez cost" costs (cf. Caryatid
or Digiconda), since these are not part of the rez cost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
9/5/96) "At no cost" means you waive the normal bit/action cost for whatever
the action is, as well as any special costs listed in the text. All outside
penalties still apply, so the Purge still has to account for Restrictive
Net Zoning and similar cards. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)
If the Corp
scores Security Purge when there are fewer than three cards left in R&D,
the Corp shows as many cards as there are in R&D to the Runner and
fulfills as much of the Purge effects as possible; since the effects do
not require the Corp to "draw" the cards, the Corp player cannot lose the
game by scoring this agenda. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 7/17/98)
Security Purge
says ‘rez them, at no cost’. ‘No cost’ refers to the number in the upper
right corner of a card. Security Purge doesn’t let you get out of paying
Glacier’s
agenda point cost. Reverses ruling above.
Note that Security Purge instructs you to install and rez the ice,
which means you have to do so if possible. If there are additional costs
to install + rez, and you can pay them, you have to install + rez and pay
those costs. I.e, if you’ve scored any agenda, and Security Purge
turns up Glacier, you have to install + rez Glacier, and therefore spend
1 of your agenda points.(Tom Wylie 11/12/99)
Subsidiary Branch
Barring interaction
from other cards, the Corporation will have four actions per turn for the
remainder of the game, including during the turn in which Subsidiary Branch
is scored. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
Theorem Proof
If the Runner
chooses to install Theorem Proof as a program it is not considered
stolen. So you can't play Trojan Horse afterwards.
Bizzare
Encryption Scheme can not prevent the Runner from installing Theorem
Proof as a program. But if the Runner does not install it and it
is still in the fort at the start of the next Runner turn the Runner scores
Theorem Proof without having to install it.
Viral Breeding Ground
If Viral Breeding
Ground returns a daemon to the Runner's hand, the programs installed inside
it are trashed; there is currently no effect in the game that will prevent
the trashing of these programs. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)
Any advancement
counters on Viral Breeding Ground are not considered Virus counters; they're
just advancement counters that happen to be on a Virus card. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
10/2/96)
World Domination
The Runner
only scores 3 agenda points for stealing World Domination, regardless of
the number of advancement counters on it. (Sparky on Project Babylon, Netrunner-L,
5/22/96)