Emulation & Assist Operation, effects? Options

[Laughing One]

Hello all,
I have a question.

Theres a technomancer with the biowire echo at rating 5, emulated skillsoft rating 4, and a rating 6 registered sprite.

He tells the spirit to use Assist Operation on the emulated skillsoft.

What happens?
Does it modify the rating? Or gives dp modifier? How does the limited biowire rating affect the whole thing?

Bonus question:
What happens when you tell the sprite to use Assist Operation on a Smartlink complex form?

Thanks.

[Wasabi]

Assist Operation adds to the rating of a CF.
An Emulated program is a CF.
It doesn't mention explicitly that an emulated CF can be threaded but the Errata for Unwired does say if paid for with Karma the emulated CF cannot be Threaded.


Except for how the rating is generated Biowire acts exactly like Skillwires.
Skillwires cannot run a program that exceeds its rating so Emulated Cf's act the same way.
Thread it too high and Biowire cant read it.


>What happens when you tell the sprite to use Assist Operation on a Smartlink complex form?
You get a high rating Smartlink CF that acts just like a rating 1 Smartlink except that it is harder to crash using Nuke.
I cant imagine how a high rating Smartlink CF could have Program Options attached to it since its of program type 'Special' but the idea is intriguing.

[Tiger Eyes]

Hello all,
I have a question.

Theres a technomancer with the biowire echo at rating 5, emulated skillsoft rating 4, and a rating 6 registered sprite.

He tells the spirit to use Assist Operation on the emulated skillsoft.

What happens?
Does it modify the rating? Or gives dp modifier? How does the limited biowire rating affect the whole thing?

Bonus question:
What happens when you tell the sprite to use Assist Operation on a Smartlink complex form?

Thanks.

The skillsoft is emulated, and cannot be threaded or increased past its original rating by any other means, such as Assist Operation. Emulation is a special form of threading. Therefore, if the original skillsoft is a rating 4, the TM can only emulate it up to a rating 4. Likewise, a Rating 2 skillsoft can only ever be emulated to a Rating 2 CF. If you have a Rating 2 skillsoft, and emulate it, and then have a sprite Assist Operation, the skillsoft still remains a rating 2. If you spend the karma to memorize it at Rating 2, you cannot thread it higher than Rating 2. Having the sprite Assist Operation would have no effect and be a waste of a task.

[note that this is an official position, not a matter of opinion; I have spoken directly to the author who wrote the Technomancer & Sprite chapters of Unwired]

Assist Operation on a smartlink CF would make the smartlink CF really really great at giving you the +2 dice pool bonus. Smartlink is an unrating CF, and it always gives you +2 dp bonus. For matters of purchasing it with karma, it is considered a rating 1 CF, but that's just so you know how much karma to spend to purchase it. In game play, it is unrated, and it always and only gives you a +2 dp bonus.