Crash & Trash No-Parasite Nasir

BTrain 2971

This is still very much a work in progress, and I'd love feedback, especially since I'm sort of going against the grain meta-wise on this one (no parasite? GTFO?). Self-modifying Code is down to 2 because Nasir so badly wants his programs on the Personal Workshop, but sometimes you just have to tutor out that Magnum Opus or Nerve Agent. I've also changed Diesel to Quality Time and added Public Sympathy to dampen the negatives of its mass draw as well as to act as a de facto Plascrete. Kati Jones is out: I found myself much more willing to click Mopus for an immediate 2c than clicking Kati for a future 3. Net Celebrity is gone because it was more meant to combat the hypothetical presence of a corp current, but that's not my style - I'd much rather play my own game. Demolition Run can be used to wreak havoc once you have a clear shot into a server, and you can Same Old Thing it for an added punch (best practice is to avoid getting a SOT on the table before Demo Run if possible, just to delay any tip of your hand); mix it with multi-access for extra fun. Parasite is gone entirely, though I'm not sure whether this is a mistake. So far though, I'm able to justify dropping it because a) it's 4 inf. and b) so many times I'd find myself either without the means to tutor it up, or without the willingness to play it; it was mostly a "blast through a surprise Pop-Up" card, and I feel that careful rig building with Ghost Runner and Cache makes those surprise low-costs much less of a problem. Clone Chip is still in to recur Cache, though it can also be Scavenged in a pinch.

1 comments
18 Aug 2014 wswan

If Quality Time and Public Sympathy are working for you, go for it, but personally I'd stick with Diesel because it's free and Nasir has money problems, and then take out the Public Sympathies, freeing up a card slot (I'd probably go with 3 Diesel). Everything else looks great, though some of your 1- and 2-ofs might be better off as 3.