In Character Worm EventIn an attempt to rid True Light of its competitors True Light have developed a worm package, as others learn how to combat this virus and remove it True Light will develop its AI and will release in regular intervals.
WorkingsWorms, 100% automated. Little cretins that start off with 100 in number randomly spawned, it is more likely to spawn on powerful secret servers however it is possible to spawn on low level ones. Every hour the 100 worms have a choice of doing up to 3 of the following
1) Duplicate Its self on the current server
2) Duplicate its self onto another server (uses logs, uses the system trace logs, so the modified ones do not get used)
3) Upgrade Version (.01 increase, max of .1)
4) Launch CPU user (uses 50mhz of cpu, when worm removed the process will close, no other way to remove process)
5) Launch RAM user (uses 5mb of ram, when worm removed the process will close, no other way to remove process)
6) Launch HD user (uses 100mb of hard drive, this is written as a file, read only until originating worm removed)
7) Launch Bandwidth user (uses 5KB of bandwidth, process does not execute if 5mb not free.)
8) Scramble Logs (within the last 100 logs it will remove, scramble up to 3% of them)
9) Wiggle into files (attaches its self onto a file, must have the software WormyScanner and a tag on the file says 'Wormyfected'
10) Delete Worm Threats (Deletes Wormicide Antivirus or a Worm Trapper)
There is a maximum of 1000 worm files, so that the real servers don't overload, once ALL worms are removed there is a minimum of 4 months before it starts again.
Another piece of software developed by Omnicron MegaCorp is the 'Wormicide Antivirus' taking 3 hours to complete (starting at next hour) it will remove the worm you choose, it can be activated from your gateway to remove one on the server you have connected to. There is a maximum of 1 dis-infect process running at the same time per antivirus file.
Another piece of software developed by Icarus MegaCorp is the 'Worm Trapper' when a worm has been trapped by this file the worm can be moved by the user to any server of his/her choosing. Please note it moves the file and does not copy. One file can be trapped at a time, as soon as the trap is removed the worm is once again active. The Trapper can be run from only your gateway.
True Light however underestimated the power of its own creation and as their mission completer's got infected, the worms found their selves back on the True Light servers. True Light invented the 'WormyScanner' you must manually scan files which take 10 seconds per 100mb and it will tell you if a worm has attached its self onto that file.
Hakuza MegaCorp soon realised how to crack these worms, they created their own version. These with improved AI can ONLY attack True Light, Omnicron MegaCorp, Icarus computers. However they will still infect Player servers. Hakuza starts with 45 while True Light started with 50. True Light Worms can still infect True Light Servers, each NPC server depending on its faction will have 'Estimated Worm Count:
integer, the counter will give the number of worms + or - up to 5%. Recalculated every 6 Hours. There is also a total worm count from all the faction estimates placed under the HPD and AP labels.
Missions, when a Worm Event occurs ALL NPC servers will have worm kill missions. All factions will only have disinfect missions for them selves and have sabotage missions for every other faction, except for Hakuza, they will have disinfect missions for Omnicron as well, but why is this? We may never know.
I am still working on the idea so will be updating, I would appreciate your thoughts, values are open for adjustment
And I apologise to SirEmi, the amount of work this will need
