The Hacker Project - a free online game

Heh, I found one server that has your v.62 sitting there public... after I cracked in and took a look around I decided to download it before someone wised up and installed it...

I also got a MyCash_Neo.Dll from somewhere before it was installed... I upgraded it a bit (which I shouldn't have done, I wish it took less than 5 bandwidth now so I could put it on inactives...)

I was spreading those around earlier and they were being removed pretty quick... now I think I know why.

That would've been a good thing to know... at least the fact that I haven't been left any warnings in my logs yet it comforting...

Or maybe I just missed them...  *runs to go look*

Awesome, wish I would've known that... I had like 5 minutes left on my password crack research and decided to hack into some little weak server to see if I could... there goes the past few hours...

That's a very, very good point.  You had all these in before the AP system so they were free, where new players will now have to spend loads of AP to try and populate their .1 viruses, which will just get removed anyway most of the time or taken over by spyware...

I'm really confused... I have been at 3000 for a while now (can't seem to get rid of these points quick enough) and then when I just completed a mission I look over and I see 3000 (+10)... I don't understand at all what happened but I'm about to finish some more missions and we will see what happens from there...

Edit:  So I completed another mission... 2990 (-10)... refresh the page and it's already 2992 (+2)... strange...

I've had some issues with getting it to set the bandwidth to certain percentages... most notably when that percentage would be below a certain bandwidth (setting 5% bandwidth has never worked for me because of this... most of the time setting priority 4 doesn't even work it just drops it to .1)

I really like the heat idea, it fits very well into the context of the game and I think it could bring in a whole new set of game mechanics (instead of having to try and put a virus on the other person's computer to get them you could flood their server with useless tasks to try and force it to overheat... an emergency cooling process similar to the password change and HDD format options...)

As a side note, the AP system you have set up is very good for being not very limiting... I have yet to make a dent in my AP because of the length of processes anyway... but that might be just because I am still newer.  I can see that for people whose dedicated gateways look more like the true light public servers (in volume of processes) it could get pretty annoying... especially when all those AP hits go at the same time.

But I agree that the major problem with this update is how much is discourages the newer players (and not-so-newer players) from making a living nickel and dime-ing off the lower paying missions... it just isn't AP effective.

AP's work very well for a few games (I play Pardus, it works very well there, and they did a pretty good job in Urban Dead if only they had more stuff to do on the higher end...) but I don't think it really fits this game.

I'm not going to sign the petition but I do think that AP's are not the answer to balance issues...

Good lord... earlier today I found a .61 secret server... now I just have to wait for my bandwidth to clear up a bit and then I'm gonna pull those down.

This is only like my second day and I've got .32 firewall/password off a secret server.  I would say where I found it but it's already too easy anyway.  Let's just say that reading the forums really helps out.