I'm in the process of writing the most excellent fan mission, "Bear With Me". After some discussion, I was forced to agree that SR4 fans are people too, so I am working (struggling) to try and dual-stat the run. I have most of the physical attributes down, but obviously matrix is COMPLETELY different. To start with the easy part, do the stats for this decker:
Deck: MPCP-9/9/9/9/0 Hardening 4, Response Increase 2
Pools: Hacking Pool - 4
Skills: Computer 5
Programs: Browse-6, Scanner-4, Track-3, Black Hammer-4, Armor-2
Translate reasonably well to:
Equipment: Response 3, Signal 4, Firewall 2, System 3
Attributes: Matrix Initiative of 9, 3 passes
Skills: Cybercombat 3, Eletronics Skill group 3, Electronic Warfare 4, Hacking 2
Programs: Analyze-6, Browse-6, Command-4, Edit-5, Encrypt-6, Armor-2, Attack-4, Black Hammer-4, ECCM-6, Sniffer-6, Track-3
I know I added some programs, I'll probably stick encrypt and the like in the SR3 decker too. But overall my concern is with the hardware. I have no idea how to translate one to the other.
(For SR3 veterans, the 9/9/9/0 represents that the fellow is running a legal deck that doesn't have a masking rating, therefore that rating is 0 and everything else is maxed out.)
Even more worrying, I notice that the security sheaf is gone. How then do you manage the gradually increasing degrees of paranoia in a system? Should I just write 'the first time the hacker attracts attention, he gets X, the next time, Y, the next time Z...'? I understand IC has been replaced with agents with programs, so that I think I can manage, but the whole sheaf thing has left me feeling lost and confused.
How would you translate:
Orange-7
Access 12
Control 13
Index 12
Files 15
Slave 12
Trigger Step Security Event
003 Trace 7 ®
007 Tar Baby 9 ®
010 Trap Trace 7 ® / Killer 7
015 Passive Alert (+2 on all Subsystem Ratings)
019 Trap Trace 5 ® / Blaster 7
024 Trap Trace 7 ® / Killer 5
028 Blaster 9
032 Active Alert
036 Lethal Black IC 9
041 Non-Lethal Black IC 5
045 Ripper (Bod) 9
048 Non-Lethal Black IC 9
051 Lethal Black IC 7
054 Shutdown Started
?
(R indicated Reactive IC).
I understand a lot of the IC will have to be dropped because, for instance Tar Baby, can no longer be made with current SR4 rules. I'm cool with that. It's mostly the whole order of things that worries me. Any help is welcome!
Thanks in advance.