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Associated Press?

Advanced Placement?

The meaning of "AP" (a subtype on, e.g., Neural Katana, Wall of Thorns, Data Mine, Janus 1.0, Heimdall 1.0, Viktor 1.0) is unclear to me. The best guess I can venture is artificial person, but that doesn't seem consistent with the title, image, and flavor text of some cards (like Wall of Thorns and Data Mine) and I'm not sure what distinguishes it from AI, another common card subtype.

Can someone clue me in? It doesn't seem to have any game effect yet that I've noticed. I ask only out of curiosity's sake, and an interest in the game's setting.

Love this game, by the way. My bf gave it to me a few days ago as an early Christmas gift and we've been playing the hell out of it.

I'm not 100% sure, but I take it to mean Armor Piercing, the same popularly used term applied to real world ammunition. All these cards (plus cards  from the original Netrunner) contain subroutines that directly deal damage to the Runner.

Anti Personnel, thus why they all do damage to the runner.

Toqtamish said:

This!

Toqtamish said:

Honestly, I don't think it's been technically revealed, but seems to make sense given that all ICE that has the subtype 'AP' causes some form of damage to the runner.

I was just throwing my support behind Toq's theory.

EDIT: Which, of course, is very similar to your own theory, 'armour piercing' :-)

I think I have a slight preference for antipersonnel, but these are both great, valid interpretations. Thanks for your help!

House Ruled: AP stands for "Analysis Paralysis". As the Corp, when your Runner opponent has taken over 90 seconds without spending a click or performing an action, you may claim Analysis Paralysis and immediately rez one ice with the AP trait, free of cost.

Anti Personnel comes from Cyberpunk, the tabletop RPG that Netrunner is based on. 

Anti Personnel, in Cyberpunk, is a class of software that targets the netuser, or 'Runner.  There exists also Anti ICE software and Anti System software, which attack ICE and CPUs respectively.

it also comes from military equipment like anti personnel mines.

I meant in terms of how it relates to Net Runner.

photogasm said:

I know. I was explaining my reference for it. I am a military history buff.

So am I but I guess I fail to understand how it relates to the present topic.

Messenger asked for my source so I was answering it is from military terminology. That is how I knew what it meant. 

photogasm said:

I'd forgotten that ('96) Netrunner was based on the Cyberpunk 2020 universe. Very good point.

The term 'anti personnel' clearly comes from the military. It is suggestive of how a piece of ICE can harm a human (i.e. the runner), much like how a landmine would harm a human (i.e. soldier or civillain), so I think we are all in agreement.

To clarify, I was not suggesting that the origin of the word anti personnel came from Cyberpunk; I was citing it's use/meaning in the Netrunner setting.