Resonance EGhosts / AI, cant have resonance? Options

[The Jopp]

If a technomancer gets stuck on the matrix (E-ghost) or a Sprite becomes self aware why wouldn't they have their virtual persona and their resonance?

Since Sprites are connected to the resonance and have no bodies wouldn't the same apply to E-Ghost Technomancers?

My suggestion
AI Character (Race)
Technomancer Quality (Ability)

And then be able to buy attributes as an AI and Resonance.

Rating would be replaced by Resonance and the rules for averaging the Rating attribute should be removed.

Thus you can make a Technomancer AI with a Resonance of 6 but relatively average attributes.

They would have Technomancer abilities AND AI abilities.

Technomancer AI's should also have inherent programs regardless if tehy were sprite or technomancer as they are more like inherent abilities then a loaded program. These complex forms would be the forms that the user had active at the time they got trapped.

Technomancer E-Ghosts use BP to buy Logic X2 complex forms as usual per SR4 - And so do sprites.

[Ravor]

Well personally in my campaigns E-Ghosts are merely delusional A.I.s and not "real people".

[Jhaiisiin]

In my view, an AI, either by way of E-Ghost or evolved program, is still a collection of code. Resonance is magic in all practical ways, and program code cannot make use of that. The resonance may have helped awaken the program to sentience, but that's all. They can't actively use it. A technomancer stuck in the matrix would be the same as a hacker stuck in the matrix. In there too long and your meatbod dies. You become an E-Ghost by some measure of luck and you recompile into a program simulating who you were, with resonance gone bye bye.

Could make for an interesting character concept though.

[The Jopp]

Resonance is magic in all practical ways

Well, if we say that Resonance is then connected to the living body how do we explain that sprites can exist on the matrix without the user being online at all, or alive for that matter?

And the problem still remain is that Resonance exist solely on the matrix and the user has learned to connect with it regardless on how one view resonance as magic or not.

[Blog]

Well, if we say that Resonance is then connected to the living body how do we explain that sprites can exist on the matrix without the user being online at all, or alive for that matter?

And the problem still remain is that Resonance exist solely on the matrix and the user has learned to connect with it regardless on how one view resonance as magic or not.

There is a sprite/technomancer link which is probably the 'thread' that enables the sprite to exist.

I've always viewed the Resonance as not the actual digital signals (which thanks to wireless is everywhere) but as the 'stuff' thats between the wavelengths. So it does exist everywhere a wireless signal is it just only can manifest effects on the matrix..... for now.

[The Jopp]

So your view is that the Resonance can be more described as a digital manasphere created by the minds of other technomancers than an actual digital force that has taken root in the digital realm and found a foothold in the minds of certain people.

[The Jopp]

There is a sprite/technomancer link which is probably the 'thread' that enables the sprite to exist.

Yes, but sprites exists even after the technomancer is dead, which in taht case it shouldnt

[Aaron]

Many people believe that the only thing other worlds can be made of is mana.

[The Jopp]

Many people believe that the only thing other worlds can be made of is mana.

He, tell that to a technomancer. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[GreyBrother]

Tell that a Networker and he will mutter something about "Data is the Glue of the World."