Easily the Answer to Sandburg the designer of the Cortez Chip makes it even more fun for the Corp to rez ICE. Want that Ichi 1.0 up? Thats a 7 credit cost. Want to get up the NEXT Silver up with 2 other NEXT ICE online? thats now 5 credits... Its essentially forces any Corp to make sure they have 2-4 credits more to protect servers and makes the corps math go out the window. Excellent card.
I *could* be wrong, but I don't think this card affects NEXT Silver, as the rez cost is determined when the card is inactive, and while inactive, NEXT Silver would have 0 subroutines.
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LynxMegaCorp
I agree Lynx. And Ichi would cost 8 not 7.
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quailman2101
Plus the Cortez Chip wasnt designed by Hernando Cortez, the chip fluff clearly says, named after :)
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lunchmoney
@Lynx, I don't think that is correct otherwise none of the constellation ice (Wormhole, Orion, etc) would work.
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shazzner
I doubt the FAQ will have been updated for this one yet but I'd put even money that the card only counts the number of printed carriage returns on the ice itself when counting subroutines. That makes the Next suite actually pretty effective against him since they're getting all those extra routines for free.
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killj0y