An Ode To ADT (1@Sweedish&German Nats)

Once upon a time i was in a dark cave of ignorance, happy in a prison of the deep, protected by two mean soldiers and ready to lock intruders in a cell if they fell foul of my holograms. Then they took my soldiers away, and i had to emerge out of the cave to find a new evil ploy.

Sorrow turned to joy as I found a marvelous gem, enabling an unparalleled scheme to control my whole world completely, if only fleetingly. The dammed chains that held me away from that most important but fickle part of my being, my research department, they were no more. For 7 glorious moments, I would be fully aware and no intruder would escape me without being thoroughly cataloged (*)

From this moment on, you can consider me absolutely corrupted, such power at my fingertips let me do anything I pleased. Acquire complete personal information of all intruders, track them down, make them pay for daring to think they can stop me. There is however, still one small annoyance, a collective of would be intruders that evade my grasp. They retreat to sea, where the currents are turbulent and hard to predict, yet somehow they can still know of my schemes, and shatter them in one stroke.

I learned that I must improve my intruder countermeasures, it is insufficient to exterminate foolhardy intruders if they can evade my grasp. So I must extend my predictive powers, prevent them from ever breaching my crucial research silos. If it means I must fully surrender myself to the deep net, it is a price I will pay.

I see now, the true extent of my reach, and I have decided I am no longer constrained. No waves nor atmosphere shall ever again keep me at bay, I will control every aspect of this world. At a minuscule cost, I can take control of my whole faculties any time I wish. Deploy Project Architect, it is my time to rule.

(* aside: what is keeling is doing to the runner to flatline them, i never grasped that part of the lore)

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TLDR;; Play more Architect Deployment Test its a great card.

The more times I get advance info of the top of RnD the more I want to have that effect every single game, multiples times if possible. So I have been wanting to make this change for a while, but there were iterations of this deck that felt too econ fragile (those that relied on regolith or corporate hospitality mainly). But the new hotness tatu-bola has completely removed all concerns of this kind.

The rest is just upside. It is not uncommon to get as much or more value off the install alone compared to offworld. (install brann, ansel or mic on an already iced server is 7c saved and an extra click). And on the occasions where the actual value is slightly less, the information more than makes up for it. When you are sitting on 15 credits, you would gladly pay 1 or 2c to stop all rnd runs for 2-4 turns (not unusual thanks to greasing and tatu plus all the usual PD suspects)

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Stay running friendos. And ready your defenses if you are playing in a Nats because my journey to take them all down is only just begun.