So I've been conducting a busman's holiday and spending time getting back up to speed on the wonderful Shadowrun universe. While I used to be able to quote history, stats and rules from memory, that was back in the 2nd Edition era.
Reading through the Matrix section and I want to see if I've got this right. An Agent's Response is based on the node he is in, if he's in the Ares central servers it is a 6 but if he's hiding in a toaster it's 1. Next, the Node's Response is affected by the programs running on Agents in its node.
So if you're a Dec... Hacker in a hostile node and facing some nasty Black IC, wouldn't a fully valid tactic be to drop an Agent and tell it to load as many programs as it can? This would slow the node and thereby the Black IC. Right?
WM
