Or the obligatory flamable explodo barrel in front of the corp goon squad.

I wasn't suggesting they imply there was a mage to cause them to shoot the mage instead of the hacker as much as to prevent them from thinking they'd been hacked. Ejecting clips and the like is a clear way to tell the opposition that you're in their PAN. You make them think they're being fragged with by a mage, and you've got another few passes to try and hack back through the overall network.

Although hacking their cyber so they see "spirits" may be a good way to send the opponent's mage on a wild goose chase. "Central, this is tango five. I've got the ghost of Elvis in sector two, please send an exorcist. He's singing Blue Hawaii and it's driving us nuts."

"Have you reset your commlink yet, as is standard MO? We don't want to send MageSec on another wild goose chase, do we?"

That is so much better of a plan with an actual Spirit of Elvis rather than some simple software suite. Would that just be a specialized spirit of man, or is it a different type altogether?

Elvis should be his own spirit type, with an entire religion following him.

Hey, a couple of combat rounds while the guy's off-net works too.

Yeah, because he only uses guns thast can exclusively be fired via wireless link. Because, you know, NPC are really stupid.

Well duh!!!

Allright, let's agree to disagree about playing styles, shall we?

Anyway, all the more reason to NOT link your cyber to your commlink.

Uh, hermit, I was being sarcastic. Hence the wink face.

Ah, okay. Wasn't quite sure.

This is the problem right here, I think -- you can't have a rule set for real hacking, because real hacking is about using things the way they were not intended to be used.