Upgrade Rulings
Aardvark
Note that the
card text explicitly breaks the rules by allowing you to rez this card
in response to an action of the Runner's, namely using a worm. (Official
Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
As with other
"you cannot do this" effects, the Runner is flatly prohibited from using
worms during runs on that fort, even if the worm would normally require
the Runner to use it during that run. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Bizarre Encryption Scheme
ERRATA:
Reword as follows: "Bizarre Encryption Scheme may only be installed in
a subsidiary data fort. Runner does not score any agenda (or agendas) that
he or she accesses from this fort; return the agenda to the fort instead.
Runner scores the agenda at the start of his or her next turn if it is
still in the fort." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
If you re-access
Bizarre Encryption Scheme on a second run, the whole card text takes effect
again and you can't score the agenda, but if you trash it, then run again,
you can score the agenda. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)
Under the errata,
if the agenda leaves a Bizarrely-Encrypted fort, Bizarre Encryption Scheme
loses track of the agenda, and the Runner does not score it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
9/13/96)
An agenda scored
at the beginning of the Runner's turn in this way is considered neither
stolen nor accessed. Thus, if the agenda is a Fetal AI, then, at the beginning
of the Runner's next turn, the Runner will score the Fetal AI without any
obligations--no Net damage, no 2 bits to pay. (Skipper Pickle, NR-L, 3/16/98)
Chester Mix
This ability
reduces additional costs imposed on installing the ice, such as by Jenny
Jett or Restrictive Net Zoning. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Crystal Palace Station Grid
Since a Runner
can use Pile Driver to break "up to four" subroutines on a piece of ice,
the Runner may choose to pay the extra bit only for those subroutines he
or she wishes to break. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
Under Dropp's
corrected wording (0: Break all subroutines...) the Runner cannot choose
to break only some of the subroutines on a piece of ice. The additional
one-bit payment must be made for all or none of the subroutines. (Netrunner
FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
Dr. Dreff
ERRATA: Dr.
Dreff should say "Whenever the Runner passes the last piece of ice on this
fort or declares a run on it when it has no ice,...." rather than referring
to "successful runs." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
If the run
is being made on a fort other than the one from which cards are to be accessed,
Dreff may be used if he is installed in the fort on which the run is being
made. If Dreff were installed in the fort from which cards are to be accessed,
he could not be used. So if you want Dreff to defend you from Shredder
Uplink Protocol, you need to install in him in the Archives; Dreff in HQ
can't help you against Shredder. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
If an effect
can remove the ice from play before Dreff trashes the ice (e.g., Marionette),
Dreff loses track of the ice and does not trash it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
10/31/96)
When Dr. Dreff
forces the Runner to encounter ice, that ice is not considered "rezzed"
(e.g., the Corp could not gain 3 bits by having Dreff force the Runner
to encounter Misleading Access Menus). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/25/97)
Ice played
via Dr. Dreff is not actually installed anywhere, so there's no such thing
as other ice being "outside" it; for instance, if Dreff forces the Runner
to encounter a Mastermind, the Mastermind will do zero brain damage and
have a strength of zero (unless it is some other ice-strength modifier
is in play), regardless of how many layers of ice are installed on this
fort. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)
The Runner
never approaches the ice but goes straight to encountering it, so she doesn't
have the chance to play abilities before the encounter. (Official Netrunner
Rulings, 4/21/97)
If a card refers
to the ice "on" the fort, it is referring to ice installed on the fort.
Effects that modify or target ice "on" a fort cannot modify or target ice
that Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L,
11/11/97)
The sleepy
ice says ‘…the cost to rez is reduced by 5…’. Dr Dreff says ‘…pay half
of that card rez cost…’. Since the rez cost is the number shown on top
right of a card (as explained on pages 11-12 of the rulebook), and only
that, rez cost differs from ‘cost to rez’ which means ‘if you want to rez,
do that’. With Dr Dreff, the ice is not rezzed (it is just encountered),
so you don’t trigger the reduction of rez cost.
The sleepy text just affects efforts to rez the ice,
not ‘pay bits equal to card’s rez cost’ in general. (Tom Wylie 11/12/99)
You can dreff
Dumpster on the archives because Dumpster’s restriction is on ‘installation’
only, and Dr Dreff does not install the ice.(Tom Wylie 11/12/99)
Jenny Jett
ERRATA:
Jenny Jett should say "When Runner passes the last piece of ice on this
fort, if any...", rather than referring to "successful runs." Jenny may
not be used if the run was made on a fort other than the one from which
cards are accessed (e.g., Shredder Uplink Protocol). (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
8/9/96)
If the run
is being made on a fort other than the one from which cards are to be accessed,
Jenny Jett may be used if she is installed in the fort on which the run
is being made. If Jenny were installed in the fort from which cards are
to be accessed, she could not be used. So if you want Jenny to defend you
from Shredder Uplink Protocol, you need to install in her in the Archives;
Jenny in HQ can't help you against Shredder. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
Since Jenny
Jett "installs" ice, that ice is affected by effects which modify the normal
cost(s) to install ice. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/24/97)
Jerusalem City Grid
See notes on
Data
Masons.
Lesley Major
ERRATA:Lesley
Major should say "Use this ability only when Runner passes the last piece
of ice on this fort or declares a run on it when it has no ice,...." (Skipper
Pickle, Netrunner-L, 11/11/98)
Lisa Blight
Cards are trashed
face-down. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)
Marcel DeSoleil
Cards are trashed
face-down. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)
Namatoki Plaza
If Namatoki
Plaza leaves play, deal with the effects immediately. (Tom Wylie via JD
Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/4/97)
If this card
is trashed, leaving the fort with too many nodes and/or agendas, the Corp
chooses which of those cards are trashed. (Official Netrunner Rulings,
4/21/97)
Networked Center
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.
New Galveston City Grid
When the Runner
trashes multiple cards in a fort, all of them are trashed at the same time;
thus, New Galveston City Grid still increases the cost of everything else
being trashed. The only benefit of sequential trashing is that the Runner
can determine the order in which the cards hit the Archives. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
7/10/96)
Obfuscated Fortress
All bits that
you spend during the run count against your limit, regardless of the source
of those bits. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
At the start
of a run on an Obfuscated Fortress, the Runner may "announce" a number
of bits greater than the amount currently in his or her bit pool. During
this run, the Runner may spend bits from sources other than the Runner's
bit pool (e.g., he or she may use bits from Stealth sources or from Hidden
resources). When the run is complete, if the Runner did not spend all of
the bits that were previously announced, Obfuscated Fortress will cause
the Runner to lose only bits that are in his or her bit pool; bits on his
or her installed cards cannot be lost in this manner. (Skipper Pickle,
Netrunner-L, 9/12/98)
Obfuscated
Fortress generates a start-of-run effect that can be processed with other
start-of-run effects. In the event that an Obfuscation takes place at the
beginning of a run on a fort containing Obfuscated Fortress, and the run
on that fort is then redirected (i.e., by Siren), then the Obfuscation
remains in effect. However, if the run continues on another fort that contains
an Obfuscated Fortress (and it is still the start of the run), the Runner
may redeclare the number of bits he or she will spend on the run, and the
previous declaration is no longer in effect. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L,
9/12/98)
Olivia Salazar
Olivia cannot
rez ice that Dr. Dreff causes the Runner to encounter, since Olivia only
affects "installed" ice. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/17/96)
Multiple Olivia
Salazars would enable the Corp to rez more than one piece of ice in a fort
for half cost, but could not be used in multiples on the same piece of
ice in the same run; the first Olivia would rez the ice, and the others
would get there too late. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/19/96)
Omni Kismet, Ph.D.
The Corp can
use Omni Kismet, Ph.D.'s special effect after the Runner has activated
Smarteye to expose a piece of ice, switching the exposed ice for a piece
of concealed ice, which the Runner cannot expose. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
11/11/96)
Pavit Bharat
Yes, Pavit
Bharat uninstalls himself too. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/13/96)
ERRATA:
Pavit Bharat should say "Rez Pavit Bharat only when Runner has passed the
last piece of ice on this fort or declared a run on it when it has no ice."
(Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 11/11/98)
Red Herrings
If the Runner
is using an effect that allows the trashing of any card (e.g., Kilroy Was
Here), Red Herrings does not prohibit a Runner from trashing an agenda.
(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96)
Research Bunker
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.
Rio de Janeiro City Grid
The Corp still
rolls for Rio even if effects allow the Runner to pass a piece of ice "automatically"
(e.g., Inside Job). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/7/96)
Roving Submarine
ERRATA:
"This fort may be run only if you installed a card or added an advancement
counter to a card inside or on this fort during your last turn." (Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 7/10/96)
Cards installed
during the Runner's last turn (e.g., with Pavit Bharat) do not allow the
fort to be run. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)
Self Destruct
@ In order to be used Self Destruct has to be rezzed before the Runner
decides to access cards. When the Runner accesses Self Destruct it can
be trashed to use its effect. The Runner has to survive the effect before
he can trash any card in the fort or score any agenda. If a card
is trashed by Self Destruct it goes to the archieves before the Runner
can trash or score it. (Sensei, 11-03-2000)
Simon Francisco
ERRATA:
Should read "When accessing cards in this data fort, access one less card
stored in this data fort." The ability is not triggered by accessing Simon.
(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/11/96)
Simon Francisco
does not prohibit you from accessing installed cards. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L,
1/3/97)
Sterdroid
Sterdroid can
double the strength of an ice that is not installed on the same
fort. (Tom Wylie 11/12/99)
Washington, D.C., City Grid
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.
Weapons Depot
See notes on
Artificial
Security Directors.