Hacking w/ SysAccess

[Cassandra]

Cool, thank you for the response!

[Mircea]

If the higher level SysAccess scripts aren't realistically worthwhile to craft or use, why do they exist?

[Cassandra]

They're worthwhile if you're looking to blow the leaderboard scores out of the water or if you want way more exp then money

They're just not profitable

[Mordechai]

and at one point they were the best xp/energy in the game....

[Temperance Avila]

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.

As always, David, Thank you for that bit of information

[Cassandra]

Not to necro a thread, but just for the sake of investigation: For the entirety of November, I crafted SysAccess v6s. Around 25 of the little buggers. Used them all over the last 24-48 hours. They never once presented me with a system worth anywhere near my best unaided hack, the highest was like $8400. I still got systems worth as little as $1000.

Anecdotal conclusion: You're way, way better off crafting v6 utility scripts (Commander, Cauldron, etc) on the off chance you can eventually sell one to a new hacker. SysAccess does nothing.

[Mordechai]

what was your best xp from the systems? sys access has much more affect on xp than $ value

[Cassandra]

I didn't hack them all the way through, it would have taken me another month to use them one day at a time. I got in, neutralized any Authentication ice, and used Evaluate *.*.

I don't think that really needs to be tested, though. The extra 3-4 system levels would have to gain you a hell of a lot of EXP to justify going that route instead of just doing Evi hacks. Something along the lines of 150-500 EXP, depending on how you value some things. I can't imagine a few sys levels would raise the EXP more than 50. Which is literally one Evi hack, 4 energy.

[Seb]

This is also my experience. My best hacks for Kerry have all been unaided by SysAccess of any sort. And the highest exp I've gotten have all been unaided as well.

I didn't hack them all the way through, it would have taken me another month to use them one day at a time. I got in, neutralized any Authentication ice, and used Evaluate *.*.

I don't think that really needs to be tested, though. The extra 3-4 system levels would have to gain you a hell of a lot of EXP to justify going that route instead of just doing Evi hacks. Something along the lines of 150-500 EXP, depending on how you value some things. I can't imagine a few sys levels would raise the EXP more than 50. Which is literally one Evi hack, 4 energy.