To increase the net hits of a studend by just 1 hit, that rule requires the tutor to have at least 18 dice when teaching, statistically speaking - which makes the skill essentially useless.

Also, this is the only case in SR4 that 'per 2 hits' is used, so this seems like a SR3 leftover.

One of two things...

1) The sample contacts are "newer" contacts, just starting in the biz, and aren't even up to your "low level" fixer/Mr J. Possible.

2) They have a better connection rating, but they're not willing to pull out the stops for <I>you</I>. They may be loyal as hell, but maybe, for whatever reason, there's only a certain amount they're willing to do for you. Maybe a perceived insult, maybe "orders from above", maybe threats against their freinds/family/loved ones.

<shrug>

Unfortunately, the listed examples in the book are just that, examples. With the new contact system the way it is, you need to be flexible. Aftr all, just because you have a Corp Exec contact with a 1/1 doesn't mean that's all they can do.

Bull

That's how we play it, and it provides a lot of flexibility, it just isn't expressly written in the rules that way. It is described as what they can do, not what they will do for you. Wish they would have put in a sentence or two about handling it this way. I guess that's something to add on the list for the Shadowrun Companion type of book that eventually comes out.

In the past Ghouls have been described that way, the SComp has that table for the transformation to a Ghoul. But Ghouls are given the Sapience power, even though the text explicitly states The transformation destroys the victim’s intellect in some cases, but many ghouls remain quite intelligent.

This either means a three-round burst is a short burst, or that a short burst has the same firing options as a normal burst.

You, my friend, seem to have a reading comprehension issue:

No, it isn't - read again.

Meh. Sorry about the name.

After that is when it states the gun may only fire narrow-bursts. And, no, it's not an issue with reading comprehension. It's an issue with a term that has a set rules definition under SR3 and which was thrown into SR4 without anything more than hints about the definition that could refer to two things. I'm asking for this to be clarified beyond the shadow of a doubt.

There are no 'ultra-fast short bursts' in SR3, either.

There is no skill 'Decrypt' - it should be 'Hacking'.

There is no utility 'Transfer' - 'Exploit' is missing for ilegitimate data retrieval.

I think that having all powers, cyberware, bioware, equipment, spells and drugs marked explicitely as either an augmentation (A) or a bonus (B) would be tremendously useful. I'm suggesting it here because a future errata could easily include the various lists (adept powers, cyberware, spells, and so on) with (A) or (B) for each of them. Ideally, the "augmentation" and "bonus" terminology should be used consistently throughout the book, but a simple list would be awesome to start with and would be enough to address the present ambiguities.

I think this is correct in that they intend to say that the IC which would track an intruder down is more proactive than the average, not that the majority of IC considered to be proactive may have these programs.

I assumed that it was an Ingram-unique tech. If you disperse and redirect the force enough, it should serve both purposes. If not, then it can easily be explained as one of those things that they said to excuse for game purposes.