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You Can Forget the Click to Draw
Netrunner is a game that invites qualitative analysis. There are so many elements that make up the game: cards, credits and clicks (as well as Influence, agenda (points), damage, Icebreaker/Ice interactions) as to make the evaluation of individual cards a complex task. One recurrent element of (critiquing) analyses of a card’s utility is the ( Read more... ) -
Beyond the Three Phase view of Netrunner: Sente
LiveJournal Tags: android,lcg,netrunner
If you’ve not read the first post in this (sub)series, you can find it here: Two Scales and Three Phases.
The idea of sente comes from the game of Go, and loosely interpreted it means initiative. The word originates in Japanese and according to Sensei’s Library stems from “playing first”. In Go, a ( Read more... ) -
Why the original Netrunner design was superior, Pt3
The end of term report card on the Genesis Cycle, again my series title becomes more and more irrelevant, but perhaps some of the card commentaries in the comparison tables below can start to bring it back to more relevance. For one or two of the assessments we’re getting back to the original “hyperbolic rhetoric” the original post started out with ( Read more... ) -
Re-evaluating Darwin
My last Icebreaker analysis copped a bit of flak on the Adelaide City Grid Facebook group that I run . Some commenters felt that I was unfairly critical of a certain Icebreaker:
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Icebreaker analysis circa Future Proof
Please have a look at the first essay in this series for some of the technical details.
Results are “current” up to Future Proof. Notable points here are the inclusion of the following new pieces of Ice (given that I included A Study in Static partially - based on existing spoilers at the time - in the last analysis):- Tyrant (Str 4 Barrier (0 ( Read more... )
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To Mullligans or no? That is the question.
The question of whether there is merit in the use of the Mulligans rule in Android: Netrunner has come up in my mind recently. Since I started to play the game, I have adopted my old approach to Mulligans, as a legacy of my long experience with the original game. As such, I deliberately never employ the Mulligans rule. Still, with the emergence of ( Read more... ) -
Why the original Netrunner design was superior, Pt2
A Genesis Cycle Mid-Term Report
First off, apologies for the title but this is a continuation of a sub-series of articles on the correspondences between Original Netrunner (O:NR) cards and Android: Netrunner (A:NR) cards. Keeping the series straight means keeping the series title consistent and I started off the original post by being ranty, ( Read more... ) -
Icebreaker analysis circa Cyber Exodus
I got interested in a new programming language (Haskell, if you are interested) just about the time that Android: Netrunner came out. Given that I knew a fair bit about the efficacy of the various types of Program - Icebreaker in the original game, I was keen to see what the new set of breakers was like against the existing crop of Ice that could ( Read more... ) -
Whither Rolling Thunder (Information)
While little on the Internet is ever truly gone, I did find that in writing one of my recent essays on Android: Netrunner that it was rather difficult to find information discussing the nature of the experimental distribution mechanism called “Rolling Thunder”. This distribution mechanism was a monthly release of expansion (subsets) for the Legend ( Read more... ) -
Two Scales and Three Phases of Netrunner
'I decided to write this article well before encountering some of the opinions that I might be mentioning and detracting from later on. Hopefully none will take offence at what I’m saying, or consider it an attack. That said, I think there might be an emerging view of the nature of a Netrunner game that needs to be countered, or at least argued ( Read more... )