- collect a vir: 3 AP, if above minimum to collect
Are you serious? Do you remember how bad a response you got from putting a AP cost on deleting files and the virii counter? If you're going to do this you may as well put an AP cost on delete missions as well, why not even an AP cost on accepting missions in general? You can't place an AP cost on one main form of HPD generation and not on all the others without completely killing the balance.
Also, are you aware of m1sf1t and what he's said he's done? Let me refer you to the thread.
http://www.hacker-project.com/forum/index.php?topic=279.msg13564#msg13564Not botting, yes I made a bot for HP. It has been running the past two months.
It does the following automatically for me:
Collects all missions from all secret servers I know
Gets new secret servers from missions I have and adds them to DB
Completes any missions I did not do but are listed in missions as "file deleted"
Starts new deletion missions with following actions:
Connects to random IP if bounce count is 0
Modifies logs to show login from random secret server in DB
Connects to target IP and modifies logs
Performs all available deletions
Disconnects if bonuce count = 5
Completes missions I have running using same method as above.
Provides me a listing of all secret servers I know of, their IP, whether I have admin, their defense level
Automatically reruns above tasks at 5 minute intervals
Newest features:
Bypasses research "update" overload
Found a new way to get -x% CPU and -x% Mem. Where x is whatever number I feel like it being. Ask the right people, my server was at -24k% CPU at one point. That's %, not CPU.
How does this update do anything about this? It makes this kind of behavior even more appealing.