I think the updates to secret servers are going to make the game really crappy for new player.
Horray! You get ONE secret server. After a little while when all the other servers are upgraded, a new player comes in. Their choices for making money at the start: deletes on public servers, deletes on the ONE secret server. Awesome, funnel all the new players into that constrained competition area. I don't know about others, but I really never did deletes on public servers since there was too much competition for them. Trying to nab them off secret servers that I could crack into was a better bet (at least in round one before all this BS)
Now, though, they will have to sit on their hands forever and hope that they get a little trickle of money from public server delete missions to eventually get better breakers to break the... what... v3 or whatever protects that may be on most secret servers by that time?
i know this thread is starting to get cobwebs but.....
as a new player i would like to comment on this post
i was stuck at 0.5 level software when i found the v2.0 secret server ---
i am now actively hunting all the secret servers
so far i have 149 servers up and running and the lowest is 5.8 and yes thats one huge jump from v2.0
the next few are
38.XXX.XXX.XXX 5.8
57.XXX.XXX.XXX 8.3
141.XXX.XXX.XXX 8.85
55.XXX.XXX.XXX 9.1
86.XXX.XXX.XXX 10.35
80.XXX.XXX.XXX 10.55
220.XXX.XXX.XXX 10.75
83.XXX.XXX.XXX 10.95
so unless i get really lucky and the 5.8 is full of juicy software i'll be stuck researching again for some time
so from the new players point of view this server jumping idea is harsh now but will be really harsh in a few months when the 5.8 goes above 10.0
would it be possible to maybe create a few new servers at around 2.0 every week or so to help us newbs out ????