Hey all,
Going to be running my first game this weekend with SR4. One of my players will be a hacker and one of the tasks will be to locate someone in a relatively local area (about a 10km radius) in Puyallup Downtown.
So I've been looking at the legwork tables in various other pre-written adventures to give me an idea of how the data search works on the matrix and it has surprised me on how easy it seems to be.
Even if the search was matrix wide, with only 4 dice a rubbish hacker could find something in 16 mintues? Is this really correct or am I reading something wrong?
Other than being a hacker yourself, how do you hide in the the shadowrun world?
How easy would it be to track someone down in a certain area using unsecure or secure camera feeds? Could an agent do this job?
Need some advice, and thanks in advance!
P.S. How does this compare to asking around/ using existing PC knowledge skills and rumour mills?