From wyattc@SFU.CA Fri Feb 21 22:04:57 1997 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:05:03 -0800 From: Wyatt Cheng Reply-To: Netrunner Discussion List To: Multiple recipients of list NETRUNNER-L Subject: Loop deck I've designed a new loop deck. I'll show the contents first and my comments on it will follow. 6 AI CFOs 2 Employee Empowerments 11 Team Restructurings 4 Project Consultants 6 Credit Consolidations 3 Accounts Receivable 5 Pacifica Regional AIs 2 Edgerunner Inc. Temps Filter, Sleeper, Quandry Data Wall, Data Wall 2.0, Wall of Static Before I start let me say that this deck has a) A reasonable chance of scoring an agenda out of hand on turn 1 or turn 2 b) A fairly good chance of looping by turn 6, and fairly high by turn 8. When I say loop, I am referring to infinite actions and infinite bits. The key is: After scoring an AI CFO, a card is 1/5 of an action Using only credit consolidation, a bit is 1/5 of an action. Since it takes a card, that's 3/25ths of an action, but we'll stick with 1/5 For 1 bit + 1 card + 1 action I can team restructure onto two Pacifica REgional AIs, gaining 2 actions ie. 1 and 2/5 of an action -> 2 actions Just to describ the mechanics of the deck, basicly I try to score an AI CFO as fast as possible. The deck can't win unless it scores that first AI CFO. Once that is done, I try to get up to 12-13 bits. Then I CFO and draw until I can start a turn with 2 Pacifica Regional AIs and at least 1, preferably 2 team restructurings in my hand. Action 1: Install Regional AI Action 2: Install Regional AI Action 3: Team restructure (1 counter left> AI CFO, draw 5 cards, pray for another team restructure This continues, in which I keep CFOing until I get a hand that has at least 2 team restructures in it, then I play both. The number of actions i have remaining has now increase by 1. BAsicly, from here on in, this is how I do my turns based on the contens of my hand Play all team restructures, play at most one credit consolidation, based on current bit pool and actions remaining this turn, if I have an edgerunner and at least 2 installable cards, edgerunner and install them, use the AI CFO This continues on and on. The net result is this, if I have no team restructures, my number of actions goes down by one as I CFO again. If I have 1 team restructures, my bit pool decreases by one, and I CFO again. If I have X team restrcutures, my "action pool" goes up by X - 1, my bit pool decrease by X, and I CFO again. So, obviously I need consistently at least 1 team resturcture, and preferably 2 in every CFO hand. That's why there are 11 team resturctures in the deck. Approximate deck size = 45 - 1 scored CFO - 2 Pacifica's - 2 pieces of ice = 40 cards. 11/40 = more than 1/5, which is the ratio required to draw, on average 1 Team restructure per CFO. Since the ratio is significantly higher, it helps prevent screwage, and increases the chance of getting 2 in one hand. Anyways, this deck, once it gets at least 2 extra actions, has never failed to loop out of the 4-5 times I've tried it. Once looping it get's infinite bits and actions and just sticks out agendas and advances them. It has lost once, and looped roughly on turns 5-8. I don't think it ever failed to loop by turn 8 if the runner handn't yet won already. It is not unreasonable for me be able to fall into infinite actions by turn 6, all it takes is: Turn 1: Accounts, Accounts, ice Turn 2: Credit, draw, ice Turn 3: Credit, Credit, draw Turn 4: AI CFO, Project, advance Turn 5: CFO,CFO,CFO (or wahtever number of times it takes) Turn 6: Regional AI, Regional AI, Team restrcutre... wheeeeeeee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wyattc@sfu.ca | If somebody has consistently good luck, it isn't luck Wyatt Cheng | - Spider Murphy