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Hello everyone, and Happy New Year!!!  :17:

We have a major update today in the PvP Revolution project.

There is a new button on the left menu, PvP Board.


The PvP Board is used to track PvP points earned in PvP missions, see PvP rankings and most wanted by the corps.

PvP Reward store will enable you to convert your earned PvP points into rewards. Converting PvP points does not affect your total PvP score and the way you are ranked.


When you go to a "Secret faction board", you will notice a new mission called "Damage Hacker".
Click on review on this mission, and you will be able to get a PvP mission depending on your skills at cracking.


Damage Hacker mission description:

We need someone to damage a hacker that attacked our servers.

Before we proceed, we need to know your abilities...
Please select the highest level of protections that you can crack, so we can assign a mission to you.

Selecting a higher version will get you more targets. Selecting a lower version may reduce the targets.
The target is an enemy agent belonging to a different corporation. He has negative standing towards our corporation.

A mission lasts for 72 hours, that is the window to do the damage.
If no mission is found, you can search again with different protection versions.
If a mission is found, you will be assigned to complete it.

You can only have 3 active "Damage Hacker" missions at one time.
You can cancel a "Damage Hacker" mission after 24 hours.

A mission can be primary (server is owned by target). All software / hardware on that server earns PvP points.
Or it can be secondary (target is a file owned by enemy agent). PvP points are awarded when the target file is destroyed.



During the pvp missions, you will gain the following rewards:

PvP points awards:
- disinfect virus (local / remote):
   -> primary mission: 125% of activation AP
   -> secondary mission: 150% of activation AP
   -> note: disinfect command uses 50% of activation AP
      
- delete file: 1 point for each 5 Mb size of file
- encrypt file: 1 point for each 25 Mb size of file
- hide file: 1 point for each 100 Mb size of file
- capture virus: 120, same as AP cost

- damage hardware: 15% of HPD damage done, awarded in PvP points


Since this is such a major update, if you spot any bugs, please let me know.  :14:

God Speed!

Instead of searching for the maximum protects Sir Emi can it be minimum? Because I tried it just now and I got 2 6,000 power newbs...

This is a good question. The way it works is you input your maximum crack levels and you draw a mission.

Now the mission can be from lowest to highest of your choice, and it depends on luck a lot, so you can't pick and choose who you're going to attack, thus limiting the possible abuses. Having a limit of 3 missions active at one time and a 24h delay until you can drop a pvp mission ensures that you're motivated to complete the missions to get another draw and hopefully hit a better one :)

In time,as more and more people complete the missions and the victim gets a positive boost to standing every time he gets damage, that means it affects the outcome of future draws. Just input the highest levels you want in there, and hope for the best. Targets on the higher end will be more scarce, but if you hit a monster farm it makes up for it.

The most important is the standing, and negative standing will get you targeted by the agents of that enemy faction that you are negative towards. On the opposite end, if you have positive standing to all corps, you will never get a pvp mission on you.

Do remember that Barons, when collected, will get a lot of negative standing towards the corp that you aimed it at...

 :17:

Oh ok. So how is the stock market coming along? All these PvP profiteering has to go to some sort of casino.

power to malware! (Does 1M HPD damage next  time he gets lucky and finds a good server)

That gave me an idea! Sir Emi can we get rid of the limit of 15 remote host tasks on gateways?

maybe make it so it doesn't give missions to go after group member's viruses if possible?

Yeah, might be good to not give any missions against members of same group...


The limits are there so the remote malware attacks don't get abused too much :)
But if you have overload virii on different servers, you can start 15 taks / incoming server.

Adding a note:

It is possible to pass the AP limit if you convert into AP in the PvP reward store.
When you're over the limit, no new AP coming until you get below.
This means that if you gather a lot of PvP points, you may be able to install a very big file, like a big baron or overload bomb.
One of the perks of PvP :)

Cheers!

I know I was just wondering how serious you were with introducing "hardcore" PvP.

stealing the most current and read thread... PLEASE remove Faith from software dealer!!!! Thank you.

p.s. Nice Update Emi !!

Thanks, it's removed now.

You rock..let's move on!!! Thank You.

You may return to your original thread at this time.

Oh boy, I forgot a part of the update notes  :laugh:

There is a new software called "Overload Signer".
It's available at True Light repository servers, software dealer, and will pop up in missions.

Description:

Overload Signer
"Takes ownership of an overload process. If the overload process is completed, the owner will get credit for the destruction of the file."

This software is used in conjunction with the new "Damage Hacker" mission.
It enables one to take ownership of the overload tasks that start to pop up after a server has been hit by malware and is overloaded with files on HDD and CPU / mem/ band overloads in case of virii farms.

The version of the software affects it's success chance. The chance is 20% by default and can go up to 75% max.
You can start several tasks on the same overload process. Time to complete is 5 minutes by default and it doesn't use any AP.

After you have ownership of the overload process, just wait for it to complete every hour as it naturally does. If you still have the mission on the target when it completes, then you'll get PvP points and the Reward Log will show how many and for what file.

God Speed!

there is a bug on most wanted list, if the 1st guy on page is in a group then the rest is displayed as if they are in this group too
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4696/dfgdgdg.png (http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4696/dfgdgdg.png)

Fixed, thank you.

lol, weird

Also, add ABP to reward store!

This update is nifty :D

Is a player with higher negative standing more likely to be targetted than a player with less negative standing ?


BTW .... nice update  :)

Aw no points for installing or injecting virri?

Injecting / installing is not really damage... you could be helping him build a farm...

if you convert into standing, you indirectly get Ability points when you get a new rank

Well that suck since i'm number 1 on 2 factions most wanted list.   :bodyguard:

You won't be more likely to get targeted, it will be the same. However, if you got lots of virii on the secret servers you may get more hits on those virii as secondary missions, simply because there are so many targets...

this means that once all inactive players got pwned and no longer have negative standing only about 20 of those with SERIOUSLY negative standing will be left to choose from.

thats right - in a week there will be about 5% chance of getting YOUR ip from the mission

Join the Cub. So much hard work just does not go unpunished.

some of us arn't in factions that hate us, so we'll be laughing as we get your's.

I'm not sure about this calculation. So far all my missions were secondary (against someone's virii) and I didnt get any player IP yet

I've had a few players, the biggest one was Exousia's (I think, terminal dogma)

All the factions hate me, all of them.

yeah, forgot about secondary missions. so far i had only one primary

- fixed a few bugs with getting two primary pvp missions on same server
- encrypting / hiding will give pvp points only if the file was not encrypted / hidden before or encrypted / hidden with a lower version

- encrypting / hiding of a specific file can give pvp points only once every 24 hours

i think this is way too much. when you do 100 HPD damage you get 15 PvP points which is equivalent to 525 HPD, over 5 times more. this can be exploited by friendly bombing. PvP points are in since 3 days and Alpha already has 51k which is 1,7 million HPD, while only 6 other people have more than 1k points. at the moment there is no point in doing secondary missions cos they are worth like mere 50 points

  Total points: 51,711

Yeah, but to be honest doing that much damage as I did to get that, should be awarded about that much  :19:
Trading it for HPD would be a waste for me anyway, I need AP more.

Yeah not really a fan of this. A week's work down the drain because I've had multiple PRIMARY missions on me. I finally save myself from one yesterday and then, while I was asleep last night, somebody slammed my server for over 140k worth in damage. Been a nice guy avoiding removing people's viruses etc and just trying to build up my hardware, etc only to get nailed by top 10s or the 100 million power range.

Whoever you are .... good point.
That's my main concern about this update too.

I was already kinda down on this game cause I don't have a couple hundred bucks to throw down to buy my way into just being competitive. But with this update and the fact I'm getting shafted by those who have way more power than me, I'm pretty much at the point of **** this game. It's a nice system to kick out all the noobs and let the top 10 be the ONLY players actually playing. Course then they have to throw down less cash because there's less people to compete and the entire site dies because the 10 players left just aren't having fun waving their wads of money and malware nukes over the two or three noobs left.

Well as someone in the top 10...I don't wave cash around like mad....Although playing since the start of the round definately has an advantage over new players...what you should do at this point is get a good idea of the game and experiment with things til this round ends and then you can be competitive next round. 

I too have complained about dropping big game changing updates during the middle of the round but as usual it falls upon deaf ears. Just keep at it and when next round starts you'll be ok.

Well it does spit out players in the top ten too, maybe power bands could be instigated

come on, bombing is a pleasure, it shouldnt be awarded better than hard work.

herpaderpa, in this game new players life is much easier than in other games. firstly, they dont have to research because all is already waiting to be stolen, and software = power. secondly, newbies dont get pwned by the top if they dont mess with them (with this exception of PvP missions). and when the round is over there is a new beginning for all

15% of hardware damage in pvp points means for every 100 HPD destroyed you get 15 HPD in pvp points.
So that means you get 1 pvp point (35 HPD) for every 233.33 HPD destroyed.

With this new addition could the friend/enemy/neutral list also be updated to show the total PvP Points of the person?

The most wanted list is a kinda spoiler to see who's in which faction.

Since there's no real use for this list I suggest to remove it.

Perhaps show only one table with the accumulated negative standing ?

Or most hated of each faction, rather than everyone

+24    XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, capture file  ###### IP Leech | Basic IP Leech V 0.1
Only got 24 points for a virii capture, not the 120 stated in your post.

Yes, the actual rewards seem a bit light.  :21:

Unless you malware the crap out of a bunch of people :D

Some of us aren't so crass.

I am I am! :D

Good for you.  :14:

Malware CAN be one of the best rewards.......if you can actually get it off without someone retaliating against you. 

It can, yes, but I choose not to use it except in retaliation.

I'm a lover, not a fighter.  :16:

Does the damage to hardware caused by Revelation virus also count for PvP points ? Plz tell me it doesnt  :2:

It counts, if the IP is a primary target PvP mission  :12:

Oh, it counts  :13:

Edit: Yet logic bombs dont  :21:

The goal is to damage the hardware of the target. That is why the Rev virus and the Overload Bombs count and the Logic ones don't. I think.  :laugh:

That sucks ..... and I would remove that feature if it were up to me to decide.

Destroy hardware, delete / encrypt / hide files, disinfect / capture / destroy virii to gain points.

I suppose
But i figure logic could be pro ratad against the version you "delete"

+17 overload damage destroyed 708 Mhz CPU, 44,247 kb memory, 3.47 kbs bandwidth, 2.56 Gb HDD

I dont think it works right...
I took an earlier attack and found it to be around 1 point per 425 HPD worth of damage.

Someone explain it more accurately please.

EDIT :
+11 overload damage destroyed 1,048 Mhz CPU, 65,429 kb memory, 5.14 kbs bandwidth, 3.78 Gb HDD.

More damage, fewer points?

Erm...
Malware BOMB function in progress...
 All hardware on the host was damaged in the overload.
 The host lost 142,569 Mhz CPU!
 The host lost 5,901,169 kb memory!
 The host lost 1,116.93 kbs bandwidth!
 The host lost 1,003.29 Gb HDD!

 You have gained 4 PvP points.

yea, that's bugged

Maybe you hit someone who has 99% hardware dealer ability  :laugh:

Fixed now, thank you.

The number formatting was the problem. 142,569 rounded down was equaling 142...  :4:
Fixed it so it would work with the real numbers and not the formatted ones. This will give the appropriate pvp points now.

Can i have the points i ddint get by doing that?  :13: