The Hacker Project - a free online game

The IP dealer has been discussed before and Emi stated that he wants to keep this feature in so that players with a very high logdeleter can also be found.
The IP dealer was not a part of my suggestion, I was talking about the software dealer.

After reading your replies I changed my mind and I would actually like to suggest that the software dealer stays as it is, but only exclude the researched software from the list.

I like it that the game is less predictable when we're not knowing what software is floating around on private servers.
And it encourages everyone to either do research themselves or to work very hard gathering intel on and/or software from competitors.
Offcourse this will only work when the bandwidth-blocking-trick cannot be used any longer.

Maybe these changes will give a boost to PvP action as they will force players to hack eachother to acquire researched software (when they're not sharing/trading it offcourse)

1) make it harder to purchase software from the software dealer by
     - randomizing the probability of a succesfull software purchase (e.g. you pay for the software dealers attempt to acquire the desired software)
     - by raising the prices (maybe re-create the formula to determine the price of purchased software so that the price doesn't depend only on version but also on filesize ?)
     - by charging a fair amount of AP for every attempt you request at the software dealer

2) allow players to kill the activation of virii on private servers from remotehost to prevent the use of this trick (is it a bug? I don't know ...) ---> Players can block their bandwidth by starting virii activations on their own gateway. Currently these activations can only be killed by localhost, so this is a very effective way to make sure someone else can't download files from your gateway.

Feel free to shoot some holes in these suggestions ...

I was wondering:

I connect to a server where there are files hidden with a higher version then my unhider.
But fortunately: on the remotehost there is a high enough unhider.

Will I be able to see the hidden files when I run the unhider on remotehost ?
Or need the unhider be running on localhost to see those files ? 

Are you kidding me Arthur ? Did you just call Emi a ..... 

Edit: not all veteran players agree on your points of view. Plz don't speak for 'the rest of us'

Agreed HJ, these updates is something what we've been waiting for.
Even if they are inconvinient at this moment (to some players a little more then to others) we should be able to see that it improves gameplay in the long run. All we have to do is adapt a little.

^^ For a second I thought this might be the solution to the HDD overload problem, but wait a minute .... how are we supposed to upload/install malware if HDD is full ?

Guess there's really nothing we can do except waiting for delete missions to finish ...

^^ that was my strategy in round one, but I won't do that this time, with the increasing cost of a new server

Can you plz edit the list and order ascending 

Take a deep breath HJ, don't get tempted to respond to this post ^^ 

Good thinking, but I suggest fixxing bugs is priority #1  :

1) Bots are still dominating this round
2) Put some bigger HDD's in those secret servers, I had to kill another 3 uploads !

Unless a higher scan blocker is running on the target, the scan result will always give you details about all the hardware and the highest version file on the harddisk.
Can be very usefull ....

Yes, why not ?
Why should activity on the forum be related to the amount of time he puts into developing this game ?

I agree with you on most parts.
Sometimes it feels as if Emi has forgotten about this game, but it still is under construction, remember ?
We can't know how much time he actually spends working on this game, but we sure cant dictate how much time he should spent working on this game.

I do hope current active players keep in mind the (potential) amount of fun this game can bring. We'll have to take for granted that there are also features which we like not so much.

Although I agree that Emi could be more open about what he does/doesn't do, I wish you wouldn't make posts like this anymore HJ.
You have previously made very clear how you feel about Emi and his actions.
It should be clear to you that posts like this will not have your desired result, more likely the opposite.

I'd like to nominate DAcs for a closer inspection too.
I can't prove anything but he's showing all the signs of running a bot.