The Hacker Project - a free online game

According to the SGP guide, you either want to upgrade CPU and run missions or upgrade Bandwidth and run virii.

The other two should be upgraded on an as-needed basis.

I find that often I want to go back through the logs to delete my IP address from them (after I finish the Password break, or after a series of bounces), but need to go back through several pages of logs, and it's going to get worse the more people play.

As such, I request a way to search through all logs for ones containing a given IP address. The result would return all logs containingthe given IP address.

As a newbie (several hours), there are two things that have helped me:

1) the manual
2) Noseedam's signature (I do not leave my IP...)


However, I suspect I can only last a few days before I will be begging for help, and would love to have a mentor who could help me along a little. The only online game I've played consistently for more than a few weeks at a time is the one where an experienced player reached out to me early, and guided me into the game. While that player, and a few others along the way: I'm up to 4 who I recognize as having guided me, have moved on (though I still poke 2 of them from time to time); their contact helped integrate me into the game, and I've tried to emulate them to guide others into the game.


Perhaps the Mentor program only starts after a player has done a certain amount. So you, if you signed up to be a mentor, you could count on your student having completed a few missions, having at least a but of an income stream, and perhaps a bit more. This way, you (and hopefully me too, eventually) won't have to be bothered by noobs who are likely to quit the game before a month is up.

On the other side, there should be some advantage for being a mentor. Perhaps the Mentor gets some limited access to their student's Server, while being prevented from performing hostile actions on their student. Another idea is a small benefit based on the student's progress (perhaps 1% of everything the student does, including HPD earnings, research, and gold membership). This way, there is an incentive for people who have been playing longer (even if it's 1 month right now) to help new players.


Another thing that might work is the development of clans in some form. In many games, clans (or whatever they are called) serve to provide grunt support for older players, while giving new players a hand up in the world. For this game, new players could be used to hack admin access to servers (assuming there was some way to transfer that), upgrade specific files, and place Adware, providing older players with an advantage over non-clan players. However, these clanned veterans would have to supply the newbies with some amount of resources initially, costing them in the short run.

Actually Zac Quicksilver. I use the same name in several games, so if you know me from another game, say "hi" in either one.

I've just started (I'll be introducing myself shortly), but already this looks like a cool game. Solid enough that it might actually last. I've played a few games that were ready to die (or already dead), and I this looks like a possible survivor.

Good luck with the game, and may it last.