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An AI counts as a single program toward the process limit of the node in which it is residing. It may also make connections and create icons in other nodes as a normal Matrix user, but it exists in a single node at any given time.
Question 1: if I understand this correctly, an AI (unlike an agent) can do everything without leaving its home node, as long as it has a connexion to the nodes it is trying to access of course. Is that correct?
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An artificial intelligence has two Matrix attributes, Response and Signal, that are always the same as the Response and Signal of the node in which they are at the time. The AI also has two Matrix attributes that are independent of the node in which the AI is residing: System and Firewall. Like Rating, these are derived attributes. The System attribute is the average of the Intuition and Logic attributes, rounded up. Similarly, the Firewall attribute is the average of the Charisma and Willpower attributes.
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The System program is limited by the base Response rating of the device it is on: if the base Response rating of the device is lower than the System rating, then the System rating is set to equal the Response rating.
Question 2: is the AI's System rating limited by the base Response rating of the node in which it is currently residing?
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AIs may acquire, carry, and use additional programs, just like an agent’s payload. Payload programs count towards the node’s processor limit as normal.
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AIs prefer to fight in nodes with high ratings, as this grants them an advantage. In nodes with low ratings, they will act like cold-blooded animals in a refrigerator: sluggish and vulnerable
Question 3: is the processor limit based on the AI's System rating, or the System rating of the node in which it is residing?