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Predictive Algorithm
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Predictive AlgorithmType: Operation: Current Cost: 0 Faction: Corp NBN Faction Cost: 1 This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is stolen. As an additional cost to steal an agenda, the Runner must spend 2 [Credit] . Set: The Valley Number: 17 Quantity: Illustrator: Ethan Patrick Harris |
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10 Comments
Every Agenda becomes a miniature NAPD Contract. I like it.
Good with NAPD too (6 credits to steal? Are you kidding?). Turns Fetal AI into NAPD with damage to boot (!). Good oblique help with The Future Perfect . . .
Not that you're going to pull off a Utopia Fragment, but this with UF and any of the above agendas, and . . . Red Herrings?
Certainly the pieces are here for a build that makes it very expensive for the Runner to steal agendas. Again, it's a lot of moving parts, but this is a nice current. Does a good job protecting agendas anywhere, in the centrals or installed in the remotes: great early.
I love it in Jinteki with some cheap-to-rez porous taxing ICE and some psi nonsense (Caprice) for a nickel-and-dime you to death server that's costing the Runner chunks of cash to steal NAPD (pretty easy to make that an 18-credit run). That's expensive enough that the Corp can buy some serious time to advance, even if the Runner steals, since the recovery on an 18-credit run is considerable (it also leaves no cash for trashing the upgrades out of the server).
Nice taxer. Also might be decent in Gagarin; 1 influence is attractive.
This card is pretty bad IMO. It costs you a draw and a click to play and ultimately taxes the runner 2 creds. That really doesn't seem worth it. Sure, it will occasionally push the cost to steal an agenda over the amount of creds the runner has, but overall it seems like a very weak current compared to the other available options.
You make a very good point.
Yeah, I think you're correct in the general case: including and playing this card is not worth it.
In the special cases of NAPD, Fetal AI, and Gagarin...the various taxes might accumulate to a critical mass and be ok. I don't know; that's kind of on the fuzzy cusp between raw math and practical reality for me. I'd have to play it and see how it felt at the table to decide on the edge cases. In such a deck, if each of these played only bought you half of a turn of delay, that could still be acceptable.
Also, good to see you back; I've missed your perspective on cards.
I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but does this combo with Shi.Kyu at all? I'm thinking not since Shi.Kyu says 'add' rather than 'steal'
The answer is no. Stealing is always a specific technical term that applies (thus far) only to actual agendas. "Adding" isn't the same (it happens as part of stealing normally (page 31 Rulebook, entry "Steal")), but with Shi.Kyu the "steal" stage has been sidestepped, and the Runner has been given the "add" instruction directly. (In other words, all stealing results in adding, but not all adding is stealing).
The basic flow goes one direction:
Normally Runner Accesses > Runner Steals > Runner Adds > Runner has an Agenda
Some Card Effects Runner Accesses > Runner Adds > Runner has an "Agenda"
Shi.Kyu Runner Accesses > Runner takes damage or Adds > Runner has an "Agenda"
The retrospective "I have added, ergo I must have stolen" inference cannot be made.
The Runner adding Shi.Kyu won't trigger the Personal Evolution ID either (which needs an agenda to be scored or stolen).
A more complex chart is in effect for cards like Chairman Hiro, which is added as an Agenda when it is trashed:
Executives Runner Accesses > Runner Steals or Trashes (Runner Trashes Hiro, as he cannot be stolen) > Runner Adds > Runner has an "Agenda"
Hope this helps.
N.B. The "normal" flowchart is separating Stealing and Adding, while, in truth, the rulebook definition for "Steal" demonstrates that it is a special kind of adding, not a separate action from it. It's clearer to show here as a contingent step.
Thanks for the confirmation, it would be awful if you had to pay for a -1 agenda point!
But the Runner wouldn't have to pay it. It would actually completely nullify Shi.Kyu. Whenever there is an additional cost associated with an agenda, such as NAPD Contract or Fetal AI, the Runner can decline to pay it and leave the agenda where it was, so of course they're not going to pay 2 credits to take a Shi.Kyu.