I only said it about a month ago,that research costs need to increase with the version number. Its sound,realistic,and curbs the ridiculous growth rate once you start doing disinfects in multiples. It would also make going after other peoples programs actually worth it,instead of sitting around farming new players and gaining power without ever needing to touch a busy server.
"If SGP was to use IP Change we could do every single Disinfect mission and our IPs would never be released to the public."
Your virii are the only ones worth disinfecting and you know it. And without IP CHANGE,your virii would be the only ones installed. "Setting aside" servers for other players to use is a noble idea,but a farce in the end. How long would it be before SGP gets bored with its own rules,and goes after the vassals it claimed would be safe? No IP CHANGE= The REAL GOD MODE. No one can touch your income for research-"right now I think SGP combined has around 2-4 million HPD unspent." So were to believe that removing or gimping IP CHANGE would be best for all,or best for those that can afford to have a higher UnDeleter?
So lets see if I get this straight- You want to get rid of IP CHANGE,but make buying a target IP easier? Yeah,lets talk about "exploits".
And attempting to belittle the idea the developer has for HIS game only shows how arrogant you have become.
Wow the dead has come back to life. Glad to see you couldn't really quit this game.
I am not saying No IP change. I have never said that. In fact there is a 5+ page thread on trying to get IP Change fixed from it's current god mode. A thread that several non-SGP members have endorsed.
Now I think the game has far progressed beyond what Sir Emi had intended originally. There are even secret servers with 1.0 protects on them now.
Others are starting to reach the point of "Why spend the HPD there is nothing else to do".
Sir Emi has made it clear he has no intention of changing some things. The problem is that those things are highly abusable. Which is what I have stated. That is not arrogance. That is fact. I am however showing Sir Emi how much things need to change.
Lets look at the abusable "features" in the game.
IP Change = never get caught and have zero risk involved with whatever you do.
Newbie Protection = a group of people get together and create gobs of dupe accounts, which is allowable per the ToS/EULA, don't log in for 7 days then infect each others dupe servers with a .166 adware (4.98 BW usage) and after that just log in once a week to prevent anyone else from taking the free money away. Again zero risk involved.
Virus Breaker = Never ending loop of capturing virii. Only good thing is that each capture now reduces the virii level by 1 research hour. But that hurts the original owner more than the people hijacking the virus.
Now there are some things that are being worked on or have already been corrected. For instance the old AP system. It allowed for someone to disinfect 57 virii then IP Change. Now it is much more restrictive on that as disinfect now costs 1/2 of the infect.
Gold FTP Server used to be a "You can never truly hurt me" feature. It still is if you want to donate to increase it's size. It still is for those who have already gotten all their software on it before the change to it's capacity was made. This is a good step in the right direction. I think you should be able to use HPD to increase it's size as I suggest, the suggestion was 10,000 HPD per 1GB increase. And I think that all Gold FTP Servers should have forced deletions to drop them down to their actual limit.
The game is changing. Is the game what it was once before? No not really. Are many of the changes made to curb the growth rate? Well if you look at the timeline on the SGP forums you will see how many changes were made specifically because of SGP.
As for disinfect missions. Really any of them are worth it. I do small ones all the time when I have the time.
As for the Log Software issue. There are many people out there who could compete with us if they focused on it instead of doing other things. After all SGP is only 6 members strong. Although that may change sooner or later. And there are other groups out there now that if they would stop picking on new players, yes Night Watch I am aware of your actions, and focused on bettering themselves they could even reach a point where we could have an actual hacker war which would be awesome.
So far the groups I know about are.
SGP
Night Watch (Zand's Group)
EoD (still trying to find out who the leader is)
The Cabal (The Mages group)
Only problem is SGP is the only one to make themselves known and as such we are made out to be villians. I will say this though. SGP is starting to flex it's muscles as others are learning.
