Hacking w/ SysAccess

[Temperance Avila]

Sysaccess v6
Security level 21
Awesome!

File Total: $2638
Not cool!....I would have made a profit selling the script I spent 21 days + some codes making.

Any advice for next time?

[Cassandra]

NOT intended to sound snarky at all, but yeah, next time just sell the thing. That's what I plan to do with any that I make.

The randomness is just too much. You don't get to choose which hack to apply it to, it just goes on the next one even if it's terrible.

I can see people buying up a bunch of these to amp up several hacks in a row and break the Leaderboard records, or for a forum competition, but they don't seem like they're consistently profitable in the least. A lottery ticket at best.

[Mordechai]

they raise sec level, not dollar value, that still follows the generic randomness

[Temperance Avila]

Okay. I'll keep trying.

[Madison]

It won't even be worth selling them after this thread >.>

[Mooncalf]

I believe the mid-level SysAccess scripts are worth it, but not the higher ones unless you're trying to break records or get extra EXP.

[Nishaa]

By midlevel, do you mean SysAccess 4's?

[Mooncalf]

It depends how cheaply you can produce them for. I was talking lower level, though. But that's based on calculations I did a long time ago.

[Cassandra]

Since you're here, does the Skill attribute have any effect on hacking? or is it JUST Intel and Hacking? What exactly does Skill do?

[Mooncalf]

Skill used to help with hacking, but we decided that it already helps a little bit with too many other skills, which are far more skill-based. Hacking, we decided, takes more mental ability than hand-eye-coordination, as just about anyone can learn to type pretty fast anyway. This change was announced, but it was a while ago.

Willpower is the other stat that's now used for hackers, but only programming scripts. For a hacker who doesn't program scripts, they only need hacking and intelligence.