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Title: Password change Post by: jimmi33 on March 03, 2009, 07:24:55 PM If i am doing a password change while someone is trying to crack my server, what happens then?
Does his cracking restart? Title: Re: Password change Post by: virus man on March 03, 2009, 07:51:33 PM He will have to recrack it IF you do it after he completes. Otherwise nothing.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: jager on March 03, 2009, 07:57:19 PM Yes, it is a matter of timing. If you complete first, nothing happens as his crack follows. If he cracks you first and then you change your password, he will have to crack you again. So at most you gained 1 hour and lost 30 AP.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Donn on March 04, 2009, 04:13:25 AM Yes, it is a matter of timing. If you complete first, nothing happens as his crack follows. If he cracks you first and then you change your password, he will have to crack you again. So at most you gained 1 hour and lost 30 AP. But by the time that 1 hour ends you can have your Change IP process completed.. It's best to always keep an AP backup close to 300 just in case you get attacked.. Ofcourse not a lot of players, even top players, do this.. Title: Re: Password change Post by: jimmi33 on March 04, 2009, 08:27:23 AM That is really unrealistik that he doesn't have to recrack if i does it while he is cracking it.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Exousia on March 04, 2009, 02:22:56 PM That is really unrealistik that he doesn't have to recrack if i does it while he is cracking it. Perhaps a password change should at least reset the cracking process, if not interrupt it entirely. Title: Re: Password change Post by: jager on March 04, 2009, 02:41:22 PM Hmm, then you would just change a password every hour and live happily ever after as nobody would be able to crack you :)
You spend 15 AP for pass change, get 60 in 1 h - so not a problem. If all cracking processes would be terminated - no way to hack you unless you go to sleep ... Title: Re: Password change Post by: jimmi33 on March 04, 2009, 02:50:48 PM well you spend 30 on it and we can ofc change that amount.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Exousia on March 04, 2009, 03:13:22 PM Hmm, then you would just change a password every hour and live happily ever after as nobody would be able to crack you :) You spend 15 AP for pass change, get 60 in 1 h - so not a problem. If all cracking processes would be terminated - no way to hack you unless you go to sleep ... I was just pondering that. :13: Perhaps then, it is a balancing effect in place at the moment. Or, as jimmi33 stated, we kick up the AP cost, but that might just favor Gold accounts. Then again, as hard to come by as AP seems, it may work. Title: Re: Password change Post by: jager on March 04, 2009, 03:26:13 PM That's why you have IP change - that severs all the connections and pass cracks. And it costs more - 300 AP - for a reason.
So IMHO those two are just right. Spend small and get simple pass change, spend large and you are protected more ... Title: Re: Password change Post by: jimmi33 on March 04, 2009, 03:53:57 PM If it is on your farm which is at 100k BW then you don't wanna take a ip reset.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Exousia on March 04, 2009, 04:39:44 PM That may just be one of the risks of private virii farms.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: jimmi33 on March 05, 2009, 04:41:05 AM Yes but password change could be used to protect your farm if we rise AP cost and such right now it is just useless.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Donn on March 05, 2009, 12:05:52 PM Yes but password change could be used to protect your farm if we rise AP cost and such right now it is just useless. It is not useless since we've never heard anyone complain about it before, over 8 months the game exists.. I understand your point made but I do believe that it works fine just the way it is. Title: Re: Password change Post by: Sin15698 on March 05, 2009, 06:27:56 PM If someone knows your farm and you want to make sure it is protected just keep bombing your own farm till all of it's hardware is overloaded and start a new farm.
Title: Re: Password change Post by: Araeus on March 11, 2009, 03:21:51 AM If someone knows your farm and you want to make sure it is protected just keep bombing your own farm till all of it's hardware is overloaded and start a new farm. How would that help you at all. You're better off IP changing and VB'ing or disinfecting and reinstalling all your virii... way, way cheaper. Title: Re: Password change Post by: Donn on March 11, 2009, 05:09:51 AM Well not really since you keep getting your income although you've bombed your hardware.
I'm not recommending that you malware your farm lol, but I'm just saying that although your hardware will be overloaded / bombed, you will still be able to receive income. Title: Re: Password change Post by: Sin15698 on March 11, 2009, 05:16:32 PM Yeah :13: what Donn said
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