On the updated errata page.

Thank you!

(After a quick scan I´d say "Good job!", too.)

It fixes at least some part of the insanity that is software degradetion.

Really should be a -4 Modifier when controlling multiple personas at the same time, though.

Of course, if p. 109 declares that Open Source doesn't degrade, the box on p. 110 must be changed accordingly.

Didn't even see this announced or mentioned. Did they just sneak this up? hehe

Awhile ago they mentioned that Unwired was going to 2nd printing. Someone asked if there would be errata and Peter said yes. We hadn't heard from it since.

Pinched & added to my book.

I'm pleased too with the Errata.

I think it's a +4 Treshold Modifier for accomplishing anything... but yeah i agree, it would've been better if they made it -4 to show the lowered potential of the character.

They reworded the "Swap" echo very slightly. But my English skills are failing me. Either the change makes no difference, or it (replacing "for threading" by "when threading") makes it clearer that it applies to each and every threading attempt, making this very powerful. Am I blind?

Thanks,
Joel

English is only a foreign language for me, but I think it is the other way around. "When threading" applies once, while the penalty "for threading" can be applied multiple times.

got to say, i kinda like the idea of rolling for highest availability and paying the sum of patches.

and that open source and self made never degrade change was interesting

the latter makes having the hacker spend time on programming between runs a interesting concept.

especially as he can replace his stockpile of cracked programs with open source ones, and then program up rating 6 ones over time. something tells me that its how fastjack and friends stay of the radar. that and some spoofed lifestyle costs

Yup. I took a half-day yesterday to catch up on various backlog stuff before diving back into the projects-of-doom that are eating all my time lately. So you should be seeing a few small things and updates trickling out over the next couple of days.

Small things trickling out? Sounds like a medical problem. =i)

Would that include an update to the Unwired PDF?

Sorry, to bring that up again, but I am making my first technomancer and trying to understand everything about him.

But I just can't find a concrete answer to one question: It's about the "swap" echoe. Does it affect each threaded CF, so that I will never get a sustain modifier or does it only affect the sum of all sustain modifiers?

Swap only reduces the sustain penalty for maintaining a thread by 1 by Errata. So your penalty per is -1 instead of -2.

Unless you take it twice, making it 0...

My understanding is that if I take the echo twice (post errata) and sustain 2 threaded complex forms, I have a -2 to everything (except the two threaded echos). The subtle wording switch has changed it from applying each time I thread an echo to applying only once (per echo) any time I sustain threaded complex forms.

I just want to make sure about something with Swap.

Assume I have Swap once.
Pre-errata: I'm sustaining 2 threaded Complex Forms. I take a -3 penalty (-2 penalty per threaded Complex Form, penalty reduced by 1 for Swap)
Post-errata: I'm sustaining 2 threaded Complex Forms. I take a -2 penalty (-1 penalty per threaded Complex Form)

Is this right?

Seriously, given the karma costs involved in getting Swap twice (30 if you use the optional rule to get echoes seperately, else the cost of two submersions), is it really game-breaking to say that a technomancer can sustain any and all complex forms without penalty? Given how many echoes a technomancer gets within the character's run anyway, giving up two echoes just to do that little trick seems like a pretty hefty cost. Just to make Swap worth it, I'd let the wording be such that it benefits the player (mainly, they don't get sustaining penalties if they take it twice.)

Although the wording was changed, it remains ambiguous enough that either way is a valid interpretation, & no official clarification has been made. Please note that one way, the Echo is worthless, while the other it is far to powerful. Yet another thing that has already been included in my extensive list of house errata.

Ok, thanks so far, even if it's not 100% clear.
So, how are you handling it in your house errata, Muspellsheimr, if I may ask?

In this particular instance, the Swap Echo may only be selected once, & reduces the total Sustaining penalty by Submersion Grade. Please also note that my house rules change how Technomancers work to be similar to Awakened, but still distinctly different, and place a maximum of Submersion 5, Resonance 7.

Edit: Also, my house rules & errata are approximately 60% completed at the moment (I know what they are, but have not formatted large sections yet), but due to my upcoming game starting this Thursday or next, will be completed soon. At that time, I will compile & post them here - likely in the Community Projects section.