Jilanico

u/Jilanico@lemmy.world
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on Fixing Trace Mechanic? · c/netrunner · 2 pts · 16d

I’d assume all trace cards would have to be banned and newly implemented to balance that?

The rules can just be changed to not allow bidding during traces. Most old cards should be fine if that's the rule since trace numbers tend to be low.

It would also probably force every runner to play link strength cards. Which would feel rather bad when a Corp isn’t relying on trace.

True, but this is already a problem for other aspects of the game. For example a runner might have cards for stealing agendas from remote servers, but the corp deck might be focused on meat damage combos to win and may rarely/never install agendas.

on Fixing Trace Mechanic? · c/netrunner · 2 pts · 16d

There are a few cards that increase link (Access to Globalsec, The Toolbox). What's actually missing are cards the corp can play to reduce the runner's link count.

But imagine if there were. Now there's another layer to the game: should I spend clicks/credits to buff/debuff link so that future Traces are less/more effective? The "bidding" process of Trace becomes part of overall play in anticipation of the Trace instead of during the Trace.