So my girlfriend and I just started playing Netrunner and I have a couple of questions that I have been unable to resolve elsewhere.

1. When making a run on R&D, does the runner only access the top card by default, unless some other card specifies accessing more cards? We have read much circumstantial evidence to support this, but we want to be sure.

2. How do you determine which cards go face up or face down when going into the archives? We thought that a card known to both players would go face up, and a card that one or more of the players has not seen would go face down.

3. Can a runner use an unlimited number of events during a run, provided that they have the credits to pay for them? We thought yes on this one.

4. Does a piece of ice stay rezzed forever once rezzed? We thought yes on this one as well.

We only just finished our first game, kind of making tentative calls on rules where we were unsure. We are about to play through another one so I'll probably be back with some more clarifications.

Thanks! The game looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

1. yep.

2. Rezzed cards and used operations go face up, anything discarded from unrezzed installation or fro HQ is face down, even if its been seen through a run or expose.

3. no, it costs a click to play an event, and so you can't use that mid-run. Only events that initiate a run can be used in conjunction with a run.

4. all things being equal, yes. Card effects can derez cards, but rezzing is generally permanent.

Thanks for the quick response, I have a couple more questions.

1. If the runner has a console that grants reoccuring credits for use towards icebreakers, can those credits be used towards the install cost of icebreakers, or just during a run to strengthen the icebreaker or break subroutines?

2. If there is a rezzed upgrade card on R&D, does trashing that card count as accessing it? So if the runner wanted to trash that card then they would not access any other cards?

The best thing you can do if a rules question pops up during play is to find the relevant sections in the rule book. The second best thing you can do is download the FAQ document from the support section of the Netrunner portion of this website, and have a look at the clarifications provided within. After these disclaimers, I want to add to the answers given to your first post:

2. In addition to what Grimwalker has said, any card that the runner trashes while accessing it goes face up into Archives

3. As the rulebook tells you on pages 12 and 15, you cannot initiate an action (e.g. play an event) while resolving another action (e.g. making a run)

For your second post:

1. It's like gas money, which you use to fuel a car you already have, not to buy a new one. Using an icebreaker means making use of its abilities.

2. Refer to rule book, page 18. When you make a successful run on R&D, you get to access the top card of R&D (barring any effects that allow you to access additional cards) as well as any upgrades (rezzed or unrezzed) in the root of R&D. The runner accesses those cards in any order he chooses, one by one. He can choose to trash any card with a trash cost the he is currently accessing (he or she cannot access a card with a trash cost, decide not to trash it, access the next card, and then decide to trash the first card after all).

Trashing a card by paying its trash cost can only occur as part of accessing a card, and accessing cards usually only occurs after the runner has performed a successful run.