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If this existed as feed for deckers, mind that this would have to be thousdands of new nodes every day, how would anyone be able to actually keep track of it, and just say "this is new" and tracking who it may belong to without external factors/work etc seems pretty smallworldy.
If the intent is to stovepipe deckers into the warez mechanic for everything, okay. But is that the intent? If not, was this impact intentional?
With this change I lost a tool that has absolutely benefitted my characters in the past, but I think this is better for generating conflict. If a decker wants to do a super cool rp where they deep dive a grid account to get a SIC ID, I think that's great. Maybe it takes admin oversight and some measure of risk to do that. Maybe non-decker people interested in this data could contact a real decker to get it. But with how this worked, there was just no risk, easy pickings free data that doesn't require you to even move from a room.
I am also with Aida in that it doesn't make sense a decker could possibly keep tabs on every new grid account that was registered. New nodes, sure and while the tools to poke at nodes COULD be more developed, they're at least there and people could potentially request admin support for some kind of plot regarding them.
This was a pretty big change though, so I wish it had some kind of IC roll out that was made big public. (But I always want this :P)
TLDR: This change makes IC sense to me and makes deckers feel more special, but I wish it had been announced ICly because it is quite a big change.
I put a lot of work, months really, into making that data usable (as staff knows) and earlier posts indicate that people have started changing their behavior to IC make node changes when they create an account. I'm assuming they are doing node sanitization. Making people ICly worried about their character's grid activity being tracked, monitored, and the unawares being exploited by deckers? Sounds pretty CP to me. I agree, would have been nice to see that at least acknowledged in the change NLM made ICly to NLM's account creation policy if this was in fact a megacorp wants to protect people's privacy thing….which I question the themeliness of...
