Decker ability list
An OOC bandage

Of course it would be a list of what they could try, and not necessarily if it would be a slam dunk.

A GM is probably gonna be in there anyways in all real ness. All they gotta do is check your skills and stats. They can open every door 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Example 1 of many

This isn't me being bitter, it's just honesty. The decker archetype has been second rate to combat or other archetypes for a long time. Even if you tried to test the boundaries outside of the "code" of what a decker can do.. it was a guessing game and most times was shot down from my experience. I'm not going to go IC at all here, but things that you would think a well skilled decker could possibly do (ok, for this one I will) "Like reset a grid password for someone that OOC forgot it.. was not allowed. This was after a veteran suggested they use IC means to do it in the help channel.

Too much crap that doesn't compute with the archetype, what is allowed, what isn't.. how do you explain that IC? You don't! It was left to it's wayside with an occasional bone thrown to a few characters. And I'm going to make an assumption here, but characters that could play for most of their awake hours. Ones that only could play for a few hours a day, they didn't count towards the grand scheme (They might have been type B players as was highlighted before, but as a Decker, probably type C..) aren't really part of it.

I wish I could log in and play for 6+ hours a day, but I can't. The thing is, at the end of the day who are the GMs going to put any kind of effort into? The ones that can play a little bit or the ones that can basically play all day because they can run their own drek and the code supports them? Even more so, the ones that actually require GM support to be semi-useful or the ones that have proper coded systems and can be useful off the rip?

It was a refreshing but hurtful time to realize that my character was reaped. I got no e-mail, or anything to state it was going to happen but being free of the almost two years of basically nothing was a relief. I got to start with a new one, and I won't touch anything grid related after that. I don't even want to use it period. I really hope your Grid 3.0 is something worthwhile, and it's going to suck for me when it is and I gave up before that.. but I want the rest of the player base that choose to play what should be a staple in cyberpunk, that they can finally play the archetype properly. Be feared as much as the combat toons that you put so much effort into and showcase all the cool things they get in town halls.

End rant, and I wish every day that I still had my character.. but it was too long of nothing.. I'm still going to play, but I won't touch the grid and I basically hate it now..

If it's grid-connected, part of some kind of infrastructure, you should expect with some exceptions due to game balancing that it should be behind some level of defence or ICE in Grid 3.X that is accessible by likely MULTIPLE deckers to get at. The more the reward the higher the risk, the higher the skill needed and the possibility of needing multiple people to get at it.

And doing things that shouldn't be possible is one thing that senior staff have tried to keep GMs from doing for 20 years.

If the GMs need the list, if they don't already have it, they can get it from Johnny.

I caught some of that OOC-Chat convo, but was never about bypassing IC means of finding out, but rather shed some light on what GM’s were comfortable doing for deckers outside of coded systems until grid 3.0 came out. Grid 3.0 looks like the big fix. Looks great, but Johnny has a life and has no idea when it will be done. Can’t blame him.