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There is a link now that list the abilities in the game with explanations.
The link is the left main menu, under Software Types:

http://www.hacker-project.com/index.php?action=ability_list

Still don't get those ones... they don't have runtimes.


Install times for virii?  Effect times?  Does a malware running for 1 hour do the damage of one running for 1.01 hours with a 1% increase?  Does an adware/fileshare give the money of 1.01 hours with a 1 hour collect on a 1% increase?

Abilities will likely be getting revamped especially since one of the factions provides an unfair advantage with the current faction missions well 2 factions do.

how is there an unfair advantage ? i assume you mean decrypt runtime.

only those on icarus will have it and only the icarus people will be doing them. so they all have the same chance, 

icarus people are not dis-infecting the same files as true-light. nothing unfair there ?

This is correct, the Icarus people will battle for their own faction Search & Destroy missions so there is no unfair advantage.

The runtimes on virii will affect virii install times and research tasks. The version is un-affected by any abilities... yet :)

Except you are forgetting one important thing.   HPD / Hour.   If any faction has any bonuses on decreasing the time it takes to complete a mission then those factions will generate a higher HPD / Hour than others.    This gives an unfair advantage that anyone who looks at the abilities will see that 2 factions have the ability to do.

I am really surprised no one saw that.   That is something I am working towards preventing with the revamped abilities.  But that also means those software packages that can be abused in such a manner will not be on the list.

Another thing that you seem to have forgotten was a tactic that SGP came up with in R1 before we started doing the farms.  And as the abilities are set that means an exponential increase in income especially with how AP efficient it is.  That combined with the faction missions will allow those who know the tactics, which many do and it can be found on these forums since we made it public, will allow an unfair advantage to those who are informed.

not really

True light = Password Break runtime = faster doing standard delete missions
Omnicron = File Share Virus runtime = faster installs of virii
Icarus = Decryptor runtime = faster faction missions
Hakuza = Adware Spam Daemon runtime = faster installs of virii

seems they all have a hand in the faster cash pie

your just viewing things from a mission point of view - some people dont do any missions
the 2 you consider lacking are implemented for them.

horses for courses....

Just for intermezzo - does anybody really using Adware virii? :) Why?

The problem though is that Icarus can get their faction missions done faster and therefore end up with higher standing, more points, and therefore better abilities.

I think that's what ebolla is saying, anyway.

I agree, slightly, and venture a question.

Why is decryptor runtime less expensive (in point cost) than Anti-spyware?  1 point cost vs 3 point cost.  I know spyware is going to be big and bad in the next round with the focus on secret server farms again, but that seems like a large difference considering you still only get the 1% increase on anti-spyware...

jager: adware might be a much better plan next round than in previous.  You can upload quickly, install quickly, and collect profits faster off another person's personal servers, where a fileshare would never be able to finish.  Which is why Hakuza gets them as more of the offensive, attack faction.

Especially if you speed up your adware install time.

I'm not sure what tactic you talking about ? But if it's the tactic where you start a desinfect task right after installing a virus and then try find the corresponding desinfect mission, then I'm not sure if it will be garanteed to succeed again.

And one other thing: if I understood correctly then we will soon have a bigger variety of faction mission. Maybe other factions specialities will give an advantage on those.

Good point, thanks. I forgot about offensive PvP that could be strong in next round ... And now that you mention it - bw is going to be a problem again and therefor FS renderend quite useless. Dang, completely new tactics indeed.

Installing virii faster will not help much due to AP limitations.  Nice try but you are not looking at it from a logical point of view.

Good job.  Some actually paid attention to R1.   Now can you recall which style is most efficient on the AP?

There is another very important reason but because of it is why SGP came up with the private farms since we looked at the most efficient use of AP.

Now though with the way that the BW is limited on the NPC servers to what they state they have Adware may very well become king again.  It is all about the AP.

Yeah, that could be a problem.  Obviously you would hit a wall with AP usage for infection/disinfection, but faction missions will allow you to regain AP faster and therefore complete more...

Sorry no, I don't remember anything other then SGP posting about this method on the forum.

But what I was trying to say is that to me it seems most effecient if you just install a virus and then prevent anyone from desinfecting it (which should be easier now that we have process tracers). I don't know the exact AP cost to trace and hack people but atleast it keeps the cash comming in.

Hm perhaps. PT needs 15 (or is it 30?) AP. It runs 30 minutes. However to succeed, you need from about 5 to 30 traces to get IP. Since at the beginning we won't have much hardware, you will be able to run 1-3 max PT. Version will be lower which means lower chance. So ... since the moment you find out that someone is disinfecting to the moment you will be able to stop the process - 2 hours at best (3 PT x 2 tries = 1 hour, 1 hour for cracking) to few hours ... Disinfecting adware is quite fast process ...

This is going to be fun :)

It is all about maximizing your HPD/AP ratio as much as possible.   The are lots of problems and issues with trying to keep your virii in place.  To be honest I am surprised no one is disinfecting virii already this round.

well personally i only disinfect for the mission rewards, as im not doing missions atm - i see no point

and when i did dis-infect i did so only during the last 4 hours of the server reseting - so that the player and me both get the money.

After reading the posts, I see no one pointed out that Icarus faction agents, while they may have a faster completion time on the Search & Destroy mission, they will also have a ton more competition to tackle.

While more folks will get into the faction to get their faction missions 10% faster, they will shortly notice they will be cracked and their processes killed by rival agents doing the same mission, so the 10% bonus may not be worth the extra competition hassle...

Adware may become more used since the higher advare version requires research of higher adware anti-virus, reducing the number of competitive disinfectors as opposed to the low version file share AV that will be provided by the secret servers and will not require as much research.

All in all, very good points and I see some great tactics in the round ahead  :5:  :shifty:

So the spawning of new files on secret servers will be slowed? Because this round at the beginning it was useless to research some software - in the time you researched to some version - double that was put on secrets ...

virii AV were the most active and if you look at files right now - noone was researching those ...

i'm still waiting for the files on unlisted servers to start spawning, we was offered a choice of complete our mission or download some juicy software instead - all unlisted servers so far have contained just 3 files - none of which i would consider juicy.

Ooo, that could be interesting I hope it gets implemented...

Yeah, I added the basic functionality for the missions, working on the software spawns.