The Hacker Project - a free online game

the virus has the same name as the one in uplink ^.-

and the breaker reduces version #

not by a great deal, but it racks up.

i support the original idea

not really. he's upgraded cpu more than anything, not overly much on teh bandwidth side if any as far as i see.

couldnt you have repaired the ones i damaged before the update? =/ xD

hmm. only problem with this is that this gives the high-end players the advantage over the newbie players, which ircc was why delete times were universal across the board, so newbies had as much a chance to complete a mission as anyone.

My only critque of that theory is that newbies cant take the high end missions anyway due to being traced/stopped, but that again is countered by the new ap system...

dunno, im all in favour of this, but doesnt the golden ftp mean that gold members are invulnerable to this software anyway?

we had this discussion about buying your way to the top syndrome.

Yes, it is there but hell you would need to spend a HUUUUGGGEEEE amount of RL money to get there

lets not even consider the win-win scenario.

Let's assume i dont want to power game that much, to exploit a neccessary means to get ahead.

i just want to install my virii on my servers, and maintain them.

AT the current rate i can re-instate maybe 13 a day (awake), standard upload, install and hide considered at my level

Now, lets consider there is only ONE other person out there. AT current trend not only am i now making a ridiculious loss in ap/hpd ratio (as kindly stated before me) i am simply handing money over to him. In fact, the only way not to do this is the method stated by virus man.

Now multiply the problem several times over. As stated, it is far more profitable, and ap-efficent, to do dis-infect missions. And with that god-mode ip changer, it is efficent, effective and impossible to stop.

Or is the idea of the game now to go around in a repetative cycle? virii build up, mass virii dis-infection stage where every virii rots, then there are no more virii... except here the cycle ends because it just isnt profitable. Unless we start setting up our own servers to infect o_O

i wish.

it takes more and more aps to install virii the bigger and better they get, whilst an anti-virus stays at 20ap's.

all things considered, i will take out the money factor since bigger disinfect missions = more money

In my position, i would be far more inclined to start dis-infecting since cpu power isnt an issue.

an ip change later, and im in a guaranteed money-making cycle.

bus loads of hpd arent a problem to the high end players i can assure you.

reformat hdd ^.-

not time, i meant AP.

it costs around 107 to install a v2 adware, more to upload it and more aps on top of that to hide it

yet just 20 to disinfect it =/

It came to my attention that is now far easier to disinfect virii than it is to install them.

My suggestion is for dis-infects to follow the same system as installing a virii does.

thoughts?

if i may, did you get this idea from uplink?

Anyway, by the looks of it it isnt aimed for newbies ;) they will get their turn...

just like to point out:

I dont mind that we're not invulnerable.

I do mind that its piss easy to find out where your gateway is, on top of being not invulnerable.

I don't care that people can overload their software to break into my gateway. I do object to the fact i cannot stop my ip from being located with a single payment though o_O

my eyes o.o