Rulings for Limited Edition Runner Cards

• You must establish a base link value by paying the base link cost on whatever gives you link, before you can pay to increase the link. You can only use a single source for base link, and if that source also allows you to increase your link, you may use that source as much as you can afford. If you have other means to increase your link besides another base link, you may use that as well. (Charles Keith-Stanley, Netrunner-L, (5/3/96)

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• Once a program is installed in a particular place you can't move it around. Programs that are already installed may not be placed inside a daemon that comes into play later in the game. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96)
• If the Runner has an icebreaker installed in an Imp, and the Imp is installed inside an Afreet, the icebreaker's strength is only reduced by 1. When checking for penalties, the Runner only checks to see where the icebreaker is immediately installed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• You can install one daemon inside another. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/25/96)
• If an effect (e.g., Viral Breeding Ground) returns a daemon to the Runner's hand, the programs installed inside it are trashed; there is currently no effect in the game that can prevent this trashing. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)
• You can't install part of a program in a daemon. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 5/1/98)

• ERRATA: Change strength from "*" to 0. Main card text should read: "At the start of each run, roll a die and add the result to AI Boon's strength for that run." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• If you have an AI Boon with Shell counters on it (cf. The Shell Traders), you can pay the bits to remove the counters and install it in the middle of a run, whenever special effects may be used by the Runner. If you do this, AI Boon is considered to have a default strength of zero - you only roll for its strength at the start of each run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/6/96) Remember that the Runner cannot react to the Corporation's rezzing of an ice card by using his or her own special effects. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• There is no opportunity to jack out between the time you roll the die at the start of the run and the time you encounter the first piece of ice installed on the fort. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)

• Playing Arasaka Owns You during a run does not end the run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96)
• If you are flatlined by unpreventable damage, you cannot play Arasaka Owns You. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/18/96) Any prevention effect is also a condition for play. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 12/2/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)

• When City Surveillance is in play, you don't have to take a tag because Aujourd'Oui doesn't say draw. (Wendy Wallace on Ronin Around, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.

• If you fail to break a subroutine with Blink, you may use another icebreaker to break the subroutine. (Charles Keith-Stanley, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96) The other icebreaker can be another Blink. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)
• On a 1, 2, or 3, the attempt to break the subroutine fails. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)
• You can break subroutines in any order you want. Any unbroken subroutines affect you in the order listed on the card. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/20/96)

• If a Virus program is trashed, any corresponding Virus counters stay in play; the Corp will still have to forgo three actions to remove their effects. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)
• Virus counters are given if the run is successful, but not until the end of the run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)
• The Corp cannot choose to keep some Virus counters.(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)
• The Corp may forgo actions to remove Virus counters anytime that special effects can be used. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/29/97)
• Viruses that say, "Every X counters have this effect," have their entire effect all at once, rather than once for every X counters the Corp has. In this case, the Corp shows you all of the cards at once, so there's no chance of seeing the same card over and over again. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• You may make the extra run after a successful run using the extra action provided by Wilson, Weeflerunner Apprentice; there is no limit on the number of bits you can use during the Bodyweight Data Creche run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/6/96)
• Since, the bonus run granted by Bodyweight Data Creche does not happen in the context of an action, it does not occur "during" an action and is not prohibited by the first subroutine on Haunting Inquisition. This means that you could use the bonus run right after a (successful) run in which you become Haunted. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 8/10/98)

• If you have multiple Brokers out, you can use each one during a turn. Each Broker refers only to itself. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/6/96)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• The cards are trashed from the top of R&D. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/15/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)
• If bits are removed from a Stealth card because the Runner uses a Noisy card (and not because they're being spent), those bits get replaced at the beginning of the next turn. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• Ice can have a negative strength. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/17/96)
• Clown is cumulative; if a Runner has two copies of Clown installed, all ice is encountered with its strength reduced by 2. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use the bit, replace it from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• When City Surveillance is in play, you must take a tag or pay [1] for the additional card you draw. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)
• If you trash the extra card, you can't put it on Microtech Backup Drive, because the card is not installed (as specified by Microtech Backup Drive). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)

• The additional cards accessed do not include cards installed in R&D. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/3/97)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.

• ERRATA: Should say "Prevent up to 1 meat damage each turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank...." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• You can use the bits only for tag removal, not for activating card effects that result in tag removal (e.g., you can't use these bits to activate Nomad Allies). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/7/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "[0]: Break all subroutines of a piece of ice, and end the run." Delete the rules text "Using Dropp ends your run." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• You cannot use Startup Immolator after using Dropp to break the subroutines of a piece of ice because Dropp ends the run before the Runner can choose to use Startup Immolator. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• Dropp ends the run after the Runner finishes the piece of ice he or she was encountering when it was used. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96) The subroutines are broken, but the ice is not successfully passed; game effects triggered by "passing" ice are not triggered by breaking subroutines with Dropp. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)
• Crystal Palace Station Grid will force you to pay an extra bit to break each subroutine on a piece of ice; if you cannot pay for all of the subroutines, you cannot use Dropp to break them. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• You cannot use Pattel's Virus after using Dropp to break the subroutines of a piece of ice because Dropp ends the run before it can be considered successful. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/30/96)

• If you want to prevent the tag given by Edited Shipping Manifests, you cannot pay for the tag prevention effect (e.g., Nasuko Cycle) using the bits >from that Edited Shipping Manifests. Since the Runner must process a card's effects in order, he or she does not get the ten bits until after the tag is given. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• If the run is successful and the Corp has no bits, the Runner accesses cards as normal. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/6/96)

• For the remainder of the game, you lose one of your actions each turn; if some effect gives you additional actions (e.g, Quest for Cattekin), you would still have the benefit of the additional actions. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96) The "three actions per turn, instead of four part" refers to your base actions only.(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/15/96)
• Emergency Self-Construct cannot prevent meat damage that is marked unpreventable (e.g., Cinderella). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/10/96)
• You can't use prevention effects unless you have something to prevent, so you can't activate Emergency Self-Construct without being flatlined. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/10/96)
• Each activation of Emergency Self-Construct sets the Runner's base actions to 3 per turn. You can hit the ESC key as many times per game as you like, and each time your base actions per turn will be set to 3. (Tom Wylie, 8/26/97)

• The additional cards accessed do not include cards installed in HQ. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/3/97)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• Counters of any kind, including virus counters, are not sufficient to maintain a subsidiary data fort. When the last card in or on the fort is removed, the fort collapses. When that happens, the counters no longer exist. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner- L, 5/28/96)

• If the Runner activates False Echo and the Corp does not rez all of the ice on the fort, a third party can be used to verify that the Corp is not able to do so, but the Corp is not required to show the ice to the Runner. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• ERRATA: Forged Activation Orders has no effect on a piece of rezzed ice; the card should say "Choose an unrezzed piece of ice." (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• ERRATA: Should say "Prevents up to 1 Net damage each turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.

• You are not required to have Stealth cards in play in order to use Noisy cards; losing bits from Stealth cards is a penalty, not a cost. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use the bit, replace it from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• Multiple HQ Interfaces provide cumulative effects. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/4/96)
• The additional cards accessed do not include cards installed in HQ. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/3/97)

• All choices about which and how many cards will be exposed are made before any of them are exposed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• Cards in the draw pile of R&D, the HQ hand, and the Archives are not installed, thus they are not exposed by the Spy counter. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• Counters of any kind, including virus counters, are not sufficient to maintain a subsidiary data fort. When the last card in or on the fort is removed, the fort collapses. When that happens, the counters no longer exist. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner- L, 5/28/96)
• The Spy counter is given as an "end-of-run" effect. (Sparky on Vienna 22 and the Run chart, Netrunner-L, 9/9/96)

• See Afreet for notes on Daemons.

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• The Runner cannot choose to duplicate Virus counters given by Corp Virus cards (e.g., Pattel Antibody). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)
• The duplicate counter stays in the same location where it is duplicated. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/28/97)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use the bit, replace it from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• See Cloak for notes on Stealth cards.

• See Hammer for notes on Noisy cards.

• Joan of Arc can prevent the trashing of Mystery Box, and the piece of ice will still be trashed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• If you have Joan of Arc in play and you access two Chimeras in the same data fort, you access the first Chimera, sacrifice Joan in response, then you access the second and lose the daemon anyway. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/20/96)
• If a single effect trashes multiple programs (e.g., Experimental AI) and Joan of Arc is chosen first, Joan can still prevent the trashing of the other programs; prevention effects can be activated prior to the consequences of the effect. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96)
• If you trash one or more of your cards to gain a benefit, then use Joan of Arc to prevent the card(s) from being trashed, you do not gain the benefit (e.g., if you play misc.for-sale to trash programs and gain 3 bits for each program you trash, you can't use Joan to prevent the programs from being trashed, nor could you use Joan to keep an Emergency Self-Construct in play when you activate it) (REVERSEs previous rulings). (Skipper Pickle,Netrunner-L, 9/29/98)

• ERRATA: "Gain 1 bit after each successful run." The bit is gained as an "end-of-run" effect. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/11/96)

• You may trash agendas even if an effect prevents you from scoring those agendas (e.g., Red Herrings). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/25/96)

• If some effect prevents the damage (e.g., Shield), you cannot use Lifesaver Nanosurgeons to draw cards. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/11/96)
• The damage must happen DURING one of your last three actions; you can't activate the drawing effect of Lifesaver Nanosurgeons using damage that occurs between actions or as a start-of-turn or end- of-turn effect to fulfill the prerequisite condition. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/7/97)
• Lifesaver Nanosurgeons no longer has an erratum that inserts the word "successfully" before the word "damaged." (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/29/98)

• If you start the turn with no bits, there is no effect; this is a penalty you cannot pay. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• If an effect causes Loan from Chiba to leave play during the Corp's turn, you can pay the 10 bits to avoid losing the game, since this does not require an action. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner- L, 5/28/96)
• A player can choose the order in which start-of-turn effects generated by his or her cards occur; you can choose to lose the bit from Loan from Chiba before gaining bits from a start-of-turn effect. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/6/96)
• If you trash Loan from Chiba with misc.for-sale, the bits earned cannot be used to pay off the Loan. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/15/96)

• You may use the bits from Lucidrine Booster Drug to pay for trashing nodes and upgrades accessed during that run. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/28/96)
• Preps and Operations go to the trash after they're fully declared (i.e., after all decisions are made) but before they're resolved; Lucidrine Booster Drug goes into the trash before any cards trashed as a result of the run and before the card you lose to the brain damage caused by Lucidrine Booster Drug. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 8/27/96)
• You don't take the brain damage until after the run is complete, so if you score enough agenda to win (or meet another winning condition such as trashing Nevinyrral), you never suffer the damage. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• Cards placed on Microtech Backup Drive go faceup. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 4/20/96)
• A program that goes to a Microtech Backup Drive can be considered trashed and out of play (REVERSEs a previous ruling). (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/28/98)

• "Ignoring" a subroutine means that you don't even get a chance to break it, not that you just ignore its effect. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• misc.for-sale no longer has an erratum that inserts the word "successfully" before the word "trashed." But you still can't get bits from misc.for-sale if you use Joan of Arc to prevent programs from being trashed. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/29/98)

• Cannot expose ice cards, which are installed on forts, not in forts. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• Joan of Arc can prevent the trashing of Mystery Box, and the new program will still be installed. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/24/96)

• When City Surveillance is in play, you don't have to take a tag because N.E.T.O. doesn't say draw. (Wendy Wallace on Ronin Around, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)

• Preps and Operations go to the trash after they're fully declared (i.e., after all decisions are made) but before they're resolved; Organ Donor goes into the trash before any cards are trashed from your hand. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/28/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)
• These bits cannot be used for SETTING a base link--only for using effects that modify a base link (e.g., these bits could not be used to pay for Access through Alpha, since Alpha only sets a base link, but does not allow you to increase your link). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 6/26/97)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• You cannot use Pattel's Virus after using Dropp to break the subroutines of a piece of ice because Dropp ends the run before it can be considered successful. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/11/96)
• Read it like this: "Whenever you make successful run, put ONE Pattel counter on ONE piece of ice that had all its subroutines broken during that run. Each Pattel counter on a piece of ice reduces its strength by 1." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/30/96)
• Ice with no subroutines on it (e.g., Hunting Pack as the only ice on a fort) can be considered to have had all of its subroutines broken. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)

• See Hammer for notes on Noisy cards.
• Crystal Palace Station Grid will force you to pay an extra bit to break each subroutine on a piece of ice. Since you pay to break "up to four" subroutines at a time, you can choose to pay only for those subroutines you wish to break. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of the bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)
• These bits cannot be used for SETTING a base link--only for using effects that modify a base link (e.g., these bits could not be used to pay for Access through Alpha, since Alpha only sets a base link, but does not allow you to increase your link). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 6/26/97)

• ERRATA: Should say, "Put [2] from the bank on Poltergeist ..." and "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• Counters of any kind, including virus counters, are not sufficient to maintain a subsidiary data fort. When the last card in or on the fort is removed, the fort collapses. When that happens, the counters no longer exist. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner- L, 5/28/96)

• You have to declare each Preying Mantis one at a time, and at the end of the turn you take damage one at a time. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 5/15/96)
• The action gained from Preying Mantis may be forgone to fulfill a penalty. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• If you use a start-of-turn effect to trash Quest for Cattekin before activating it, you can't use it; if you roll for Quest, you deal with the results before you can trash it. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 7/29/96)
• The action gained from Quest for Cattekin may be forgone to fulfill a penalty. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• Multiple R&D Interfaces provide cumulative effects. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/4/96)
• The additional cards accessed do not include cards installed in R&D. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/3/97)

• Note that Rabbit reduces the trace limit, not the trace, so Rabbit merely limits how much the Corp can spend. Barring other effects, the trace value will always be at least 0. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• See Hammer for notes on Noisy cards.

• ERRATA: Should say, "Prevents up to 1 Net damage each turn," and "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)
• See Cloak for notes on Stealth cards.

• When City Surveillance is in play, you don't have to take a tag because Ronin Around doesn't say draw. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner- L, 5/1/96)
• Ronin Around can only expose installed cards. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/1/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 10/11/96)

• Cards in the draw pile of R&D, the HQ hand, and the Archives are not installed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "You may use this ability during an encounter with a piece of ice." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• You must pay the program's installation cost. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96)
• If you can't install the program, it remains in your stack (unlike other search cards, it never states, "bring it into your hand"); note that MU will never prohibit you from installing a program, but sometimes you'll have to trash something else in play to do so. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/17/96)

• With Shredder Uplink Protocol, you access upgrades in HQ. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/12/96)
• Note that you are treating the run as a successful run on HQ for all intents and purposes, not simply accessing cards stored in HQ. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• You have to use bits you haven't allocated in the trace/link auction. (Charles Keith-Stanley, Netrunner-L, 5/3/96)
• You can use Signpost even if you do not have a Base Link card in play (the Runner always starts with a base link of zero). (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• For notes on Virus programs, see Boardwalk.
• Being required to draw additional cards via Skiviss, does not use up any of the Corp's normal 3 actions per turn; it is a start-of- turn effect. (Charles Keith-Stanley, Netrunner-L, (5/2/96)

• If some effect prevents you from jacking out (e.g., Jack Attack), you lose the ability granted by Smarteye to jack out early. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)
• The Corp can use Omni Kismet, Ph.D to switch the exposed ice for a piece of concealed ice, which the Runner cannot expose (since he or she no longer has the opportunity to use special effects before the ice is rezzed). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)

• You may only use Smith's Pawnshop's ability once per turn. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/95)

• If you use Sneak Preview to install a program, then later trash that program, it will not return to your hand. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 7/17/96) If the program ends up on a Microtech Backup Drive, or leaves play for any other reason, it won't return to your hand. (Tom Wylie, 8/26/97)

• The Corp has the right to count the Runner's bits before the effect starts, but not once the guessing game begins. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)
• You must encounter a piece of ice before you pass it. If the Runner chooses an unrezzed piece of ice, the Corp has a chance to rez that ice. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/26/96)
• Social Engineering only allows you to pass that piece of ice one time during that run. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 11/4/97)

• The run is considered successful if the Runner activates Speed Trap after passing the last piece of ice on the fort, but the Runner does not access cards. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/13/96)
• You can only activate Speed Trap in response to the Corp rezzing an upgrade or a node. Ambush agenda (e.g., Marked Accounts) cannot be avoided with Speed Trap. Virus Test Site does not have to be rezzed, even if it is installed, so Speed Trap doesn't work against it. When the Runner accesses other Ambush nodes from R&D or HQ and the node specifies that it takes effect "even when it is not installed" (e.g., Speed Trap or Doppelganger Antibody), it cannot be avoided with Speed Trap, since the Corp does not rez those cards; however, if they are installed, then the Corp does have to rez them for their punitive effects to take place, and thus Speed Trap can be successfully activated. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 6/25/96; Tom Wylie, Pacificon, 9/1/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "Use this ability after passing that piece of ice, if you broke all the subroutines of that ice." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• You cannot use Startup Immolator after using Dropp to break the subroutines of a piece of ice because Dropp ends the run before the Runner can choose to use Startup Immolator. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• Contrary to Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, if you use Joan of Arc to prevent the trashing of Startup Immolator, the piece of ice will not be trashed (REVERSEs a previous ruling). (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/29/98)
• You can only use Startup Immolator during a run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/11/96)
• Ice with no subroutines on it (e.g., Hunting Pack as the only ice on a fort) can be considered to have had all of its subroutines broken. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "Submarine Uplink ends your run after the current encounter." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• See Access through Alpha for notes on base links.
• If you use Submarine Uplink, the run isn't over until the encounter with the current piece of ice ends. You still have to deal with all the other subroutines on the ice. Whether you successfully pass the ice depends on what happens with the rest of the subroutines, (i.e., using the Uplink doesn't stop you from having an encounter end in "successfully passed," but doesn't automatically mean that, either). (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• See Afreet for notes on Daemons.

• Each card for which the Corp pays 2 bits is no longer available to be discarded. Essentially, effects that force the Corp's discards to be random (e.g., Cockroach) are worthless when combined with Synchronized Attack. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/7/96)
• Unofficial Errata: Sparky says, "To make the function of [Synchronized Attack on HQ] more clear, we're CONSIDERING: 'For each card stored in HQ, Corp either pays[2] or discards that card.' This better explains why the card interacts the way it does with discard modifiers, like Cockroach counters." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "Put [5] from the bank on Techtronica Utility Suit ..." and "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." Should say "Prevents up to 1 meat damage each turn" (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• These bits cannot be used for SETTING a base link--only for using effects that modify a base link (e.g., these bits could not be used to pay for Access through Alpha, since Alpha only sets a base link, but does not allow you to increase your link). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 6/26/97)

• ERRATA: "A: Choose a program or hardware card from your hand. Set that card aside face up, and put a number of Shell counters on it equal to its installation cost. When the last Shell counter on that card has been removed, install that card, at no cost. "1: Remove one Shell counter from a card. "Remove one Shell counter from one card at the start of each of your turns."(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• The removal of a Shell counter at the start of a turn is mandatory. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96)
• When the last Shell counter is removed, the program or hardware must be installed. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/2/96)
• You can pay to remove Shell counters and install cards set aside by The Shell Traders in the middle of a run, whenever special effects may be used by the Runner. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/6/96) Remember that the Runner cannot react to the Corporation's rezzing of an ice card by using his or her own special effects. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
• At the start of a turn, each copy of The Shell Traders can remove one counter >from any one card that has them. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 5/19/96)
• If Shell Traders is removed from play, any cards with Shell counters on them remain 'in limbo' and can have their counters removed by subsequent copies of Shell Traders. (Sparky, Netrunner- L, 5/19/96)
• "At no cost" means the regular bit cost of a card. If a card states that it has additional installation costs, you must pay them. If another card indicates that additional costs must be paid to install the card being processed by Shell Traders, you must pay that cost. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• If you remove the last counter from a program and don't have any free MU, you MUST overwrite an existing program. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• If you remove the last counter from a card that has additional costs to install and you have those resources, you MUST spend them and install the card.
• If you CANNOT pay the additional costs, you lose the opportunity to install that card, and it slips into limbo permanently; remove it from the game. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 5/19/96)
• You cannot activate Shell Traders in response to the Corp's trashing it. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/30/96)

• You have to use bits you haven't allocated in the trace/link auction. (Charles Keith-Stanley, Netrunner-L, 5/3/96)
• You can use The Springboard even if you do not have a Base Link card in play (the Runner always starts with a base link of zero). (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)

• If multiple Total Genetic Retrofits are played, their effects are cumulative (i.e., if you play two Retrofits, you avoid your next two tags) (REVERSEs a previous ruling). (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/30/98)

• You get 5 actions and 1 bit, not 5 actions and 1 bit per action. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)
• You must use the actions you gain from Valu-Pak Software Bundle immediately or forfeit them. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/16/96)
• The bit must be spent "during" one of the actions gained from Valu-Pak Software Bundle--you cannot use it on special effects that occur between those actions. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 10/4/98)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank...." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)
• See Cloak for notes on Stealth cards.

• Wilson's ability allows you to make a run, not to use a prep card or the special function of another card. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/6/96)
• After declaring the end of his or her turn, the Runner cannot declare the use of the extra Wilson run in response to the Corp rezzing a card or using a special effect; the Runner gets to use special effects first, and the Corp gets to use them second. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/12/96)
• The action gained from Wilson, Weeflerunner Apprentice may be forgone to fulfill a penalty. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "Put [2] from the bank on Software Installer ..." and "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank at the start of your next turn." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

• ERRATA: Should say, "If you use any of these bits, replace them from the bank...." (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/11/96)

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