Hayley's Thesis

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Trying a non-stealth Shaper Baba Yaga build. NetChip helps with memory, Scavenge lets you re-install an already installed icebreaker onto Baba. The relatively cheap breakers can be installed for early runs and then re-installed later to make an efficient breaker to get past glacier. Guru Davinder to survive Boom decks.

Would like to include an Aesop + cache / scheherzade package, but not sure where to find the influence.

Suggestions welcome!

4 comments
14 Dec 2016 FarCryFromHuman

I love NetChips but they aren't the right fit for a Baba Yaga suite, since programs installed on BY don't get to also be installed on a chip. Akamatsu Mem Chip is probably your best bet and CyberSolutions Mem Chip would work as well.

Clone Chip is good for Clot and if you have to use Sharpshooter or Faerie for a panic break, but Sacrificial Construct is pretty much a required include for BY. I'd run at least two; with Hayley installing them is much less of a tempo loss.

Levy AR Lab Access seems a bit out of place; you aren't trying to recur a bunch of events and you already have 3x CC for your programs. You are also missing Beth Kilrain-Chang, who I think should be in that slot.

Net Celebrity is nice but I think you can find something better for the slots. 3x Modded also feels like overkill as you don't have a ton of excess draw.

The rig itself seems solid; Yog.0 + Faerie + Inti seems to be the consensus for best BY breaker combo and Sharpshooter sacrifices the raw throughput and per-run strength boost of Houdini but is way less of a headache to set up. Good stuff!

14 Dec 2016 square1

I mainly went with NetChips because they're cheap, which matches up well with Hayley, and they slot the non-breaker programs. I have enough memory with the Astrolabe +4 to handle BY and the breakers. That said, Akamatsu might be better in this case, you're right.

I could see cutting the Modded and Levy for Beth and Sacrificial Constructs. That would make sense. Thank you!

14 Dec 2016 GhostTown

I think FarCry covered a lot of pertinent stuff but I had one other thought to add. Why not leave the NetChip for a Leprechaun and have a nested hosting of BY and breakers?

14 Dec 2016 FarCryFromHuman

Unfortunately Leprechaun suffers from the same issue as NetChip; it only discounts the memory of the program installed directly on it, but does not apply to any programs hosted on the program it is hosting. In a nutshell, it's only saving you 1 and you are still better off with Akamatsu.