A player finally decided to try his hand at being a decker in one of my games. The problem is, I don't have a lot of experience with the matrix, as it is often disregarded. I've seen host ratings for certain systems, but I have absolutely no idea what kind of ACIFS stats particular hosts would have. Drawing from my knowledge of all the novels I've read, from the games I've seen and from the threads I've read here, I still have no clue.
He tried hacking Lone Star, and I made the system ratings somewhere between 16-18. This might very well be unreasonable, as my player has said, but quite frankly I have no idea. Could someone clear this up for me? Is there some good way to get ACIFS ratings? I have the Matrix sourcebook, so a page reference also works.