Major PvP update: PvP board & hacker missions

[siremi]

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year!!! 

We have a major update today in the PvP Revolution project.

There is a new button on the left menu, PvP Board.


The PvP Board is used to track PvP points earned in PvP missions, see PvP rankings and most wanted by the corps.

PvP Reward store will enable you to convert your earned PvP points into rewards. Converting PvP points does not affect your total PvP score and the way you are ranked.


When you go to a "Secret faction board", you will notice a new mission called "Damage Hacker".
Click on review on this mission, and you will be able to get a PvP mission depending on your skills at cracking.


Damage Hacker mission description:

We need someone to damage a hacker that attacked our servers.

Before we proceed, we need to know your abilities...
Please select the highest level of protections that you can crack, so we can assign a mission to you.

Selecting a higher version will get you more targets. Selecting a lower version may reduce the targets.
The target is an enemy agent belonging to a different corporation. He has negative standing towards our corporation.

A mission lasts for 72 hours, that is the window to do the damage.
If no mission is found, you can search again with different protection versions.
If a mission is found, you will be assigned to complete it.

You can only have 3 active "Damage Hacker" missions at one time.
You can cancel a "Damage Hacker" mission after 24 hours.

A mission can be primary (server is owned by target). All software / hardware on that server earns PvP points.
Or it can be secondary (target is a file owned by enemy agent). PvP points are awarded when the target file is destroyed.



During the pvp missions, you will gain the following rewards:

PvP points awards:
- disinfect virus (local / remote):
   -> primary mission: 125% of activation AP
   -> secondary mission: 150% of activation AP
   -> note: disinfect command uses 50% of activation AP
      
- delete file: 1 point for each 5 Mb size of file
- encrypt file: 1 point for each 25 Mb size of file
- hide file: 1 point for each 100 Mb size of file
- capture virus: 120, same as AP cost

- damage hardware: 15% of HPD damage done, awarded in PvP points


Since this is such a major update, if you spot any bugs, please let me know. 

God Speed!

[GlitchH4xor]

Instead of searching for the maximum protects Sir Emi can it be minimum? Because I tried it just now and I got 2 6,000 power newbs...

[siremi]

Instead of searching for the maximum protects Sir Emi can it be minimum? Because I tried it just now and I got 2 6,000 power newbs...

This is a good question. The way it works is you input your maximum crack levels and you draw a mission.

Now the mission can be from lowest to highest of your choice, and it depends on luck a lot, so you can't pick and choose who you're going to attack, thus limiting the possible abuses. Having a limit of 3 missions active at one time and a 24h delay until you can drop a pvp mission ensures that you're motivated to complete the missions to get another draw and hopefully hit a better one

In time,as more and more people complete the missions and the victim gets a positive boost to standing every time he gets damage, that means it affects the outcome of future draws. Just input the highest levels you want in there, and hope for the best. Targets on the higher end will be more scarce, but if you hit a monster farm it makes up for it.

The most important is the standing, and negative standing will get you targeted by the agents of that enemy faction that you are negative towards. On the opposite end, if you have positive standing to all corps, you will never get a pvp mission on you.

Do remember that Barons, when collected, will get a lot of negative standing towards the corp that you aimed it at...

 

[GlitchH4xor]

Oh ok. So how is the stock market coming along? All these PvP profiteering has to go to some sort of casino.

[Izurin]

power to malware! (Does 1M HPD damage next  time he gets lucky and finds a good server)

[GlitchH4xor]

power to malware! (Does 1M HPD damage next  time he gets lucky and finds a good server)

That gave me an idea! Sir Emi can we get rid of the limit of 15 remote host tasks on gateways?

[anti_theta]

maybe make it so it doesn't give missions to go after group member's viruses if possible?

[siremi]

maybe make it so it doesn't give missions to go after group member's viruses if possible?

Yeah, might be good to not give any missions against members of same group...

power to malware! (Does 1M HPD damage next  time he gets lucky and finds a good server)

That gave me an idea! Sir Emi can we get rid of the limit of 15 remote host tasks on gateways?

The limits are there so the remote malware attacks don't get abused too much
But if you have overload virii on different servers, you can start 15 taks / incoming server.

[siremi]

Adding a note:

It is possible to pass the AP limit if you convert into AP in the PvP reward store.
When you're over the limit, no new AP coming until you get below.
This means that if you gather a lot of PvP points, you may be able to install a very big file, like a big baron or overload bomb.
One of the perks of PvP

Cheers!

[GlitchH4xor]

The limits are there so the remote malware attacks don't get abused too much
But if you have overload virii on different servers, you can start 15 tasks / incoming server.

I know I was just wondering how serious you were with introducing "hardcore" PvP.

[Ginjitsu]

stealing the most current and read thread... PLEASE remove Faith from software dealer!!!! Thank you.

p.s. Nice Update Emi !!

[siremi]

stealing the most current and read thread... PLEASE remove Faith from software dealer!!!! Thank you.

p.s. Nice Update Emi !!

Thanks, it's removed now.

[Ginjitsu]

You rock..let's move on!!! Thank You.

You may return to your original thread at this time.

[siremi]

Oh boy, I forgot a part of the update notes 

There is a new software called "Overload Signer".
It's available at True Light repository servers, software dealer, and will pop up in missions.

Description:

Overload Signer
"Takes ownership of an overload process. If the overload process is completed, the owner will get credit for the destruction of the file."

This software is used in conjunction with the new "Damage Hacker" mission.
It enables one to take ownership of the overload tasks that start to pop up after a server has been hit by malware and is overloaded with files on HDD and CPU / mem/ band overloads in case of virii farms.

The version of the software affects it's success chance. The chance is 20% by default and can go up to 75% max.
You can start several tasks on the same overload process. Time to complete is 5 minutes by default and it doesn't use any AP.

After you have ownership of the overload process, just wait for it to complete every hour as it naturally does. If you still have the mission on the target when it completes, then you'll get PvP points and the Reward Log will show how many and for what file.

God Speed!

[norill]

there is a bug on most wanted list, if the 1st guy on page is in a group then the rest is displayed as if they are in this group too
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