Syndicate PDA carts

[Zamujasa]

EyeDblocker - Allows you to set the appearance of the PDA owner name, as well as the name and role of its inserted ID card, while it's inserted into the PDA

This would render an agent card (with its access-copying ability) obsolete (outside of access to the listening post and AI tracking).

Mun3Y - Use the PDA to access to last used account on ATMs, and to spoof payment on vending machines and merchants

Tying into the ID cards, instead this should siphon money from the payroll budget (then research and shipping) and onto the inserted ID card while it's running. Not deposit it into your account, but on the card, like with slot machines.

Conspirewall - Activates the fire alarm in your area
Blakout - Toggles the lights or equipment in the area you're in.

I like these.

Electropod - Activates a shock on the PDA's wielder if they take too long to enter a hidden sequence to deactivate it

Maybe just fry the inserted cartridge and programs instead? So they'd lose whatever programs and notes were on their PDA. Shocking them seems like it'd be easy to avoid by just throwing the PDA away, which people already do when Detomatix bombs go off

IDestroid - Remotely targets a PDA and can copy and delete access levels in an inserted ID card

Maybe allow editing the name/job on the ID card but not the attached access levels? Could be good for causing chaos.

Emu-ag - Emag function on the PDA at a discount

Make it a short-range EMP function and turn it into a PDA module instead of an application, like the high-power flashlight/T-ray scanner. Takes a while to recharge between uses but EMPs anything in a 1 or 2 tile range.

Detomatrix - The current PDA bomb tool

The main problem I see with the Detomatix is that it's very obvious (or at least, was) -- it sends a specific message from one person and then blows up the PDA a second later. I'd allow changing the message it sends, the author, as well as a timer for when to detonate. Turn PDAs into a ticking timebomb that nobody will know about until it's too late, and you can make everyone else think someone else is doing it!

Might be fun to make it so that replying to the PDA that sent the bomb message adds it to a list in the Detomatix application for later, on-demand silent detonation. Could help prevent the current ability to infinitely Detomatix things by the target PDA including a special authentication code in the reply, so that you couldn't just do one and then spam it with mechanics.