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How dense are faraday cages and how big of a hole do you need to destroy their power? Are they like a continuous mesh that you can barely see through? Are the holes big enough to put anything through? If so, what? A finger? A pen? A needle? And how much of a hole is enough to make them open? Any dam...

Is a signal only reduced if the source is jammed or also if the path goes through a jammed area? Basically: if I'm not jammed, target a object within my Signal range and go through jammed space, does it have any effect? If I want to protect myself from S attacks, is it enough that the space around m...

What can you do to reduce Jamming? The ones I know of are: ECCM - Reduces effective Background by net hits on a LOG/RES + EWAR (½ Background) test, only works on yourself and people you are connected to (though that may be hard to be when you are jammed) Flame or Industry Sprite - when given the Cla...

A "teamspeak" that lets you radiopathically message people can be assumed to be quite common. It's like with Ghost In The Shell (1:23, 2:24). Notice how, in this example scene, the Major is "speaking" without lip movement. They've all got various levels of cyberization, and the ...

Can you hold stuff like video conferences through messages?

Is Test Pattern a one time thing or can you manipulate it afterwards? Because the Range is S (LOS) and CA Can you choose who it affects and who it doesn't? Can you use it to communicate with people while VR Projecting? I.E. projecting a picture of you through which you talk to people Also: What's th...

Hmm, what about this Facility Security Ratings, Structure S - Z-Zone, hardened walls, bunker, big steel shutters/door, every door has anti-tamper at highest rating and electro-shocker built in, fireproof, fire protection system with separate flame retardant tanks, bulletproof doors and windows (if a...

Oh my, you're right, that's an inconsistency I've walked myself into. My players never used VR much. I suppose I must take back the part about the eyes. Yeah, this is IIRC the second time. But I see this as a good thing. If we show the contradiction then we have found some part that is undefined an...

Mostly asking because we already had a similar discussion, based on whether or not you could use LOS programs if you are in VR Because technically you can't see (both because for you sense data is replaced and for your commlink because your lids are most likely closed) so you shouldn't be able to us...

With LOS programs, do you actually need to see them?
If no, does that mean that you can target anything towards which you have a free line?
And if yes to that question, where does that line originate? Your brain? Your Commlink?

Yes, problem is what we define as "not even within the same Matrix topology as each other" Is it only when either of you has Signal of 0? Is it when you are not in reach of any matrix connected object? (this would mean that most spaces are always matrix connected since you probably have so...

Maybe for Matrix S - Dedicated White hat (average pool of 15, DR 6+, most important programs at highest useful rating or slightly below), Black ICE on every PAN, Faraday Isolation of major Servers, Connection switches on most rooms (so that the hacker can be shunted off the system and needs to move ...

I think it was previously established that you can keep it up as long as you both have matrix connection
Problem is that we don't exactly have defined when you are connected to the matrix or not.

Can you use cloak on yourself?
Because for some people the LOG+EWAR test has more dice than the INT+Hacking test

I'm mostly asking whether a trode net has to be on the head, or can just be a wrist band. Because nanopaste trodes can transmit braintext through your motor and sensory nerves to your brain and back. And Trodes are just the nanopaste trodes but outside the skin. The Problems of trodes wouldn't be fi...

Two questions Where do you actually have to put trodes/nanopaste? Directly on the forehead? On any large nerve bundle? On any nerves? Because in the document it says You can put nanopaste on your head or even your fingertips and get the same Direct Neural Interface (DNI), you can even get the same b...

Anyway I think it's not good on your body for your muscles to be held exactly tense like that all the time. Maybe you could get a cyberware that's a dedicated system to make you not fall over when the RAS Override kicks in, but otherwise you just fall over and that's that. I was thinking more about...

In VR your body goes limp enough to fall over if you're standing. It's like you're knocked out. Hmm, would it make a big difference to say that instead of going fully limp your body automatically stabilizes and that you can simply not consciously move? So e.g. if you were standing still while engag...

Correct @ Initiative so far. But hackers automagically gain inipasses in VR if i remember correctly. And increasing those is both cheapish and easyish to do as well, so there is almost no reason whatsoever to not have many more passes. That's the whole point of operating at the speed of thought ins...

Just want to make sure: Initiative enhancers that give additional Passes also give you more passes for AR, right? So a hacker with Wired Reflexes 3 has more initiative passes than a hacker in VR, though they may have less Matrix Initiative (if the VR hacker has a response greater than 3)? Also: Do y...

If ServerA has a Connection to ServerB, and you've got a Connection to either of them, you could use the normal "close distance" action to open a Connection to the other one. Sure, but what if I'm in server A and want to server C, which isn't connected to it, can I create a connection? Is...

Yeah, so Backdoor has a Handshake range, but with enough retransmitters placed properly in a row you can make your Handshake go from your basement across the city into whatever building if you try. Unless they have a shielded basement or whatever that they keep the good stuff in. Note: They're gonn...

So I use EotM in my 4e campaign for some while now (though mostly subtly inserted) and I got some questions about it that I'd like to see answered. I have read the thread multiple times so I don't think these have been answered: Are Burner Commlinks still possible? I know that commlinks are used in ...