NLM Bug Bounties
Another possible income source!

Busywork, preventing nodes from being viewed for no particular plot reason, just selected at random? Not a fan.

Problem is where there aren't deckers to resolve it. Not every PC position is always filled.

There are a good few deckers on grid, and it gives new player deckers something to do for flash, helps them get familiar with the grid and helps them earn revenue which is otherwise difficult for deckers to earn.

I don't see a reason why more service mixer jobs like this don't exist for other roles as well. Electricians, maybe a logistics job which is a rigger operating a loader droid or something at Acme and/or PRI.

Edit 1: Weather Technician at Skywatch could be based on Electro Tech and maybe if a PC doesn't resolve the issue in time, there is an odd discrepancy between what Skywatch reports the weather should be, and what players actually experience.

(Edited by BlackSoul at 8:53 am on 8/15/2026)

Edit 2: And for payments, the money can be stored as if it were an ATM, and can be collected from your nearest StreetTerm whiiiiiiccch. Maybe ANYONE could store money this way, up to a cap of like, 10,000c. And to keep that risk alive and well, maybe Deckers could have the ability to steal this money.

So, in theory, Holly walks up to the nearest StreetTerm on Red, deposits money hoping to avoid dips when she goes up to Gold to collect it from the StreetTerm and turn it into the bank. But then she finds out Dave the Decker stole her money in the process.

(Edited by BlackSoul at 9:09 am on 8/15/2026)

Edit 3: And it doesn't HAVE to prevent the node from being viewed. It could just populate an error message at the top of the node. BUT, if it DID prevent the node from being viewed, it would give a bit of a roleplay element as players might notice that their node is bugged and call out on SIC for a decker to repair it. Just creates more roleplay opportunities around decking. I think the Programming skill range for this could be anywhere between R - O before getting into like, Attributes.

(Edited by BlackSoul at 9:34 am on 8/15/2026)

Edit 4: An alternative / additional job for Electro Tech is maybe a WCS electrician which just goes around repairing StreetTerms. An unrepaired StreetTerm takes much longer for any kind of processing. Pulling up nodes, logging in, logging out, etc.

(Edited by BlackSoul at 10:02 am on 8/15/2026)

In place of making the node unusable, could make it glitched/distorted, like how garbage in a building doesn't stop you from using it, but remarks a need to clean up or be embarassed. A soft/rp focused upkeep/opportunity for players.

I do like the GridPal account idea a lot. Maybe it's like, protected via User ICE and / or daemons.

As for the bugging, I agree that making the ENTIRE node unusable might be a bit too much.

Maybe instead it could take one section of it and scramble it around and sits it to be error colored with a text above and below it that says something like Error 69: This command failed to render.

Or something along those lines. It just picks one of the node brlang commands and screws with it.

NPCs defacing nodes could also be a fun thing to see but I like the idea of deckers having some alternative to running crates for cash. If an NPC defaced a node, I don't believe that that would count against a PC deckers max weekly earnings since it's like a PC would have to hire out of their own pocket, someone to fix their node which also feels a little unfair to that PC node owner.