The Hacker Project - a free online game

Eh, I'd suggest NOT the way it's proposed... better would be just doing so that an additional button with the 6 would be posting it... possibly allowing with whom (which of the 4 companies) you want to post with. If there are factions automatically set, that wouldn't need to be an option. After posting it, the same amount for NPC missions should be deducted from your HPD (the posting fails if you don't have that amount) and goes into the system. When finished, the completer gets the credits. The IP in the mission posting stays current regardless of IP changes, and at most one job can be completed on a specific server (IP change doesn't allow another) per game day. Nothing to keep it from being a big job, but it can be.

Also, in the 'Running Processes' page, you can tag a process to be killed... whether virus (which triggers a disinfect mission) or something else (kill process mission)... Same rules as before.

Part of this is irrelevant... regarding installing virii on newbies, you can only do it anyways if they're officially inactive... if they log back in (and continue to log in every 7 days), you can't do it. At their level, a format is quick and shouldn't lose too much...

Depends on the level you're buying... if you're buying the 10 HPD IPs, those will never be secrets... your best bet for finding secrets is actually reading through guides and forums. There's multiple secret IPs located in most of those (because it's easier to give links to a secret with protect software than keeping your server open, updated, and clean) and it's free besides...

Wrong, Master Shake.

It's not 10$ for double space for an entire year. It's 10$ for double space (initially, if you never upgrade it again) as long as you play and are a gold member. If, in a year, the game is still around and you're still playing, you can have your 40gb gold server not for 30$, but 20$. If you decide to wait a month and then become gold again, it's still just 20$ for that 40gb server.

That being said, I'd generally rather have the food. Thanks.

Regarding this, if you can code in C, you can code in Php and make your web-calcs that way. ;) Not REALLY all that hard.

Definitely agree with Crlaozwyn... as well, with a shifting scale set up, that means that the older players will have their charts telling exactly which level gives the best results... whether that happens to be a fileshare or adware, and which version gives the best tradeoff (or if it just keeps getting better as the level raises). As such, these changes disadvantage newbies way more than those of us who have the more complex Excel and other information telling us how to play. ;)

I agree that something has to happen to make this more balanced. AP and other artificial limiters like it tend to harm newbies more than the established players though, which isn't the intent, I believe...

Is password cracking actually different? Seems to be 15 in both... or are these the only AP costs remaining now?

Definitely some good changes in terms of balancing things better in relation with making the game less painful for newbies. Still has some benefits for the older players, but not quite as painful anymore.

How often do you have to run those though? The protects yes... but the log deleters/undeleters don't ever need to run for more than 10 seconds. Cracking software runs for 5-lots of minutes, but the breaker only needs to run for 10 seconds as well. You don't NEED to run the firewalls/protects when you're cracking, as you can't be traced then.

Again, changes that will screw over newbies more than old players, and/or make the game impossible to continue at a certain level.

Ha... that just makes it so you load up servers with .2 virii and end up with no cost. Especially on your own server(s)...

VERY easily exploited.

Zac, the problem with that is that the big players have so much HW and SW that even if their servers get negatives at times, they'll recover VERY easily. As well, if it's possible to raise your heat tolerance (as you would have to, to make the system not be completely broken for those with high stats already) then they'll be able to raise their systems to where heat doesn't affect them in any sort of major way... while the smaller people struggling will have heat as a major issue as they won't have the credits to raise their tolerance... they'll be raising the CPU and so on instead, which makes their heat worse, etc, etc...

Basically, besides having done the system so that costs get progressively more expensive, there's not much you can do to slow down the upper people and not screw the newbies. The issue is that, whether AP or heat, they screw over newbies so much more than people who make cash easily. I make something around 1100 HPD an hour for idling. Maybe slightly higher, I'm not sure. My income is much lower than the top players. Regardless, that's income untouched by heat, AP, or anything else.

Now how is a new player going to try to come anywhere near that?

Except as I pointed out, it costs soviet the same to put his fileshare virus out there as it does you to put your adware out there... Main difference is that his will likely get onto the server faster. The only part of it that's slower is the actual activation. And for that part, he can already move to uploading it to the next server.

Basically, the issue with this (or heat) is that they penalize the newbies more than they do the big players. Heat? Will screw a newbie up hard when their entire system is being used up by virii. Put a single overload bomb on it and all their HW is used up except BW.

The issue is that HP USED TO be a game you could enjoy as much as you wanted to... there was no need to wait around if you were feeling creative... could always just go try to find a new secret server to do missions from. Now? You'll end up using all your AP just getting into the secret servers, much less doing missions. The best strategies at the moment with disinfection, virii, and the time limits being the way they are would be:
a) upload major fileshare virii to the public/secret with the knowledge they're going to be wiped out soon
b) put major fileshare virii on your OWN servers, as that doesn't cost you hardly any AP and nobody's going to stop your income
c) just start infecting all the newbies until they quit and you keep making money, since nobody's going to stop your income

Missions aren't any sort of a good choice at the moment, besides disinfection missions, and those ones will die out as people stop caring.

Petition to get rid of AP:

- Hatejacket
- Caesar
- Sovietpride
- Noseedam
- Magna Carta
- DrJones
- OcTAvIAn
- Theraze
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As well, if the heat system goes into affect, it means that installing virii on someone's computer harms them even more... If somehow you manage to get 5 virii on someone's system while they're gone, for example, they're now screwed because they're gaining tons of heat from that bandwidth that's being continually used. On your side? No costs... it's just free cash coming in every bit.

Honestly, the problem with most of these types of 'fixes' is that they screw newbies so much more then they screw the big players. The newbies are struggling to do the 5 and 13 hpd jobs (and if you aren't running out of ap doing those, you aren't doing it right). A good newbie starting would be upgrading their CPU and deleting more and more files to raise their CPU up to where they have an actual income. But with this change, the newbie will now be limited to only deleting a smaller amount... and they'll have no chance to actually get through the jobs for deleting 100+ files, since those are going to be more jealously guarded by the mid-level players.

The big players? It costs soviet the same to upload his fileshare as it does the newbie with their .1 adware. Guess who makes more and which is going to be a better way of making cash? Heh.

Ah, thought it was one I had already snagged but you appear right on checking again. He's private 204 so it gets sort of difficult to keep track. Sorry about that. I'd already added another private after and it seemed I mixed up find locations. :(

Except he just sold me an IP that I already had... Is it still supposed to do this? Did a 10$ buy and got a known address...