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Question about research, I had a few folks slip through my defenses, and I want to boost them quickly. If I have the system resources to run multiple researches on the same program, can I perform 4 1 hour researches on a program and end up with 1 program .024 higher, or will I end up with 4 programs each .06 higher?

i would like to know this too , although i suspect if anything, it wont be the former option.

far too abusable =/

You could always just research one program for 4 hours..

he knows that.

he wants the improved protection ASAP as it were...

I don't see that working. If that was the case, nobody would research for more than 1 hour at a time.

exactly =/...

Well, personally I don't see why anyone researches for more than an hour at a time anyway. You don't gain any benefit from a longer reaserch time, except that theres more time for someone to hack in and shut it down. And most people dont have 3 or 4x the resources it would require to research say...unhide files 3 or 4 times at once.

ah... but that's where you're wrong.

Research isn't linear over a long period of time.

IF you were to research from v0.1 to v0.2, it would only need to run the program on v0.1 all teh way to v0.2

if you want to go in stages, you get less and less of your cpu avaliable, when you could have just gone straight to v0.2, and save yourself more space.

might seem minor at lower level 0.1, but with big files and stuff it pays off nicely to shove it in for long periods of time

What sovietpride says makes sense if you want to save on resources.

I would also like to point out some tips and tricks:

A Firewall or Password Protect or another software in research mode IS ACTIVE and RUNNING on you gateway. Even if it says it completed the research, that file is active and running a doing it's job, e.g. protecting the gate, unhiding, etc.

So you could keep a file in long research and when you have the HPD just click "task completed" to jump the version in a big way.

So.....what's the effect of runing 4 1 hour researches simultaneously on 1 program?

e.g. V 0.1 => 0.106 first job => 0.112 second etc....

the version is updated whenever you complete the research task. The effect would be faster research.

o.o.... you can do that????/

so research works per program rather than from version?

Well then, you learn something new every day.

Yeah it's normal since the program runs multiple instances that it would compute more data and mutate faster...

yeh i realised that five minutes after when contemplating whether to re-do my research.
wait.. multiple file sharing virii research... erm... hmm *looks at specs* T_T

long way it is <.<

Rofl xP!

What about max level to research to?  Can you go past V0.50?

Yeah, most likely. We could probably research to v 1.0 - 2.0

Could you imagine the size of the File-Share Virus at level 1.0.   At 0.5 it is 16gb in size and collects something like 250 HPD an hour.   That would be insane.  Heck a NPC Server couldn't even hold a 1.0 at the current standards.

Or better yet Adware 2.0.  That would collect approx 120 HPD an hour.



God imagine the time spent just transferring the file or worse yet disinfecting it.   Someone is disinfecting a .10 File-Share and it is taking almost 3 days to complete.  Granted the pay is something like 3,552 HPD to do it but still

That's why it's called the big one  :laugh: You have to admit it's kind of cool  :16:

But you didn't answer the big question. Can we research PAST .50 or does it cap at .50?

Ah, I didn't know it was a question  :laugh: sure, research to 10.0 if you want :)

That.. would be freakishly hugeee

yeh i find out the hardway the npc server's are tiny =(

STUPID FILESHARE VIRUS IS FREAKING HUGE ><

and somehow the npc server gained 2gb over night, which wrecked my plans.

again.

poor soviet =[