Ugh the Matrix is confusing Options

[DarkCrisis]

They way it reads in the book is that once you hack in you are done.

The old matrix had it set up where you went from node to node to node.

Even in the 1st offical adventures for 4thEd the one NPC who has a network in her home has it listed for one Node. Apparently you have to hack that ONE node then you have access to all her stuff.

I would like to think that it's still similar to the old matrix. Where there are "rooms" One node leds to another to another etc. All coming from the main CPU node.

But the way it's set up doesnt seem that way.

If the main CPU node had a System rating of 6 doesn't that mean the whole matrix network of that corp building would have the same system rating.

Basicly they are all running Windows XP and the network is based on that.

Sure you could have the different pcs actually contected to the network running a different OS but all the sub-systems would be the same. As in the Security node doesn't have a physical location in the real world it's just it's own sub-system on the central pc.

Thus meaning only the firewall would be different for each node, but why? Might as well use your best Firewall program for everything.

So every node in a network would have the same stats. That's assuming I'm right that a network is still made up of multiple nodes that the Hacker has to hack each one individually.