alternate technomancers Options

[Garrowolf]

The main problem I have with Technomancers is that they are trying to do the exact same thing as Hackers. You have one character type trying to replace another.

What if we changed the focus of the Technomancer to change their role? Technomancers can do all that nifty stuff with Wifi so let's make that instead of regular hacking the point.

Make it easy for them to get into commlinks and car computers and drones. Let them put up AR illusions and alter ads at will. Make them great at screwing around with the Wifi and AR.

They become an illusionist in an AR world and not focus them on the traditional hacking at all. Their sprites could be focused on jumping from vehicle to vehicle instead of node to node. Instead of giving them complex forms of hacking programs give them complex forms as AR manipulations - something that doesn't really overlap with Hacking. Let them use a different set of things and give them their own niche.

Maybe they could act like selective jammers to block a cop from calling for back up. Maybe they could make themselves invivisble to you by having your reality filter replace what it just saw behind you as in front of you, or add a solid AR ad betwen you and them.

Make it so that the things that are hard for hackers are easy for them as long as it is out here in the wifi world. In the matrix they would have to get all the things a hacker would and so they can't automatically replace them.