I wasn't sure whether to post this in here or in the rules questions subforum, so admins should feel free to move it!

I put together a list of the most commonly made rules mistakes that Netrunner beginners make, and, since most posts here are by beginners asking questions about the game, I thought this would be an appropriate place to post it! I mostly only cover stuff that complete beginners get wrong, with the absolute basics of the game. For more complicated card interactions, ancur.wikia.com, the official FAQ, and other forums like Reddit or Stimhack are the place to ask.

https://cryoffrustration.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/netrunner-newbie-mistakes/

Well given that Netrunner is a token heavy game the most basic is keeping track of clicks or credits or requirements to activate a card or even steal, but that is basic stuff.

For the most part of beginners forgetting the rules is more of a missed opportunity such as spending bad pub instead of credits during a run. In ways missing those rules does not inadvertently help the player that made the mistake, and their opponent is under no obligation to correct them.

Forgetting the bad pub credit doesn't affect the gamestate, sure, but can hugely impact the course of a game. But a lot of the time the kind of missed triggers you're talking about could be things like forgetting to trash Crypsis if it doesn't have a virus counter, which is a HUGE deal, makes it a much better breaker than it is, and makes it harder for the corp to win in core-only games (which is the level of Netrunner I'm talking about in the article).

Also, game-changing mistakes do happen. I once won a game because I forgot my mandatory NEH draw when installing a new server. My opponent ran R&D and saw a piece of ice, which I should've drawn, and the card under that was an agenda. Next turn I scored the winning agenda from hand. Only after the game did I realise I had basically cheated 2 turns before the end. And even very experienced players make mistakes, like the time Dan D'Argenio revealed the top 3 cards of R&D when he fired an Accelerated Beta Test (instead of just looking at them), which revealed them to the runner and irrevocably changed the game state.

It's a pretty complicated game, even at beginner level. It's not just a credit here, a credit there kind of mistakes I list in there!