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Anyone else going the "primarily hacking, max that shiz" route? Would love to have people to BS with OOC about techniques and tools and stuff. :)

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Well done, Lachy!

Aww, thanks. :)

I've really liked the whole Hacking thing since it came out. Probably my favorite part of the game. There's a lot of it I still don't get, though. And I've never been on a Hacking raid yet! Lots to learn about it still.

Edit: And before anyone gets flustered about that number, it was VERY atypical of a normal day's hack. Nobody's walking away with 10k per day from a minigame.

Congrats!
I love to hack myself too :)

If you ever feel like yakking about it, drop me a line. :)

YIM: Tarlach7

Sundial wrote:How much EXP for that hack?

For Hacking Raids:
1. They end quickly, especially the easier ones. This makes it seem like there are few Hacking Raids available.
2. I've had the best luck with finding one is to hack at a time when it is likely there are the fewest players hacking. I E. not right after day change.
3. I have seen Hack Raids spawn right after another has ended.
3. Remember that once you hit the 6th level the "artifact" is in a file node. No need to do the switches/admin (other than pacify, if needed).
4. Use old Hack Raid company names when doing Sabo hacks to find new raids. (I saw you mention about not wanting to Sabo hack real business')

I'm sure you will have no probs with them. Welcome back, too!

Thanks for the tips, especially #4 lol... I'll have to start saving all the names instead of just the name that is currently running the raid lol.

You're welcome.

Sun's first Hack Raid she nearly ran out of actions before getting the relic cause I wasn't clear where the relic was and stuff.

I would be interested to see what you uber hackers think about the SysAccess scripts, I don't think anyone has really tested them out. Would be another lil step up for max hackers, maybe.

Sundial wrote:How much EXP for that hack?

For Hacking Raids:
1. They end quickly, especially the easier ones. This makes it seem like there are few Hacking Raids available.
2. I've had the best luck with finding one is to hack at a time when it is likely there are the fewest players hacking. I E. not right after day change.
3. I have seen Hack Raids spawn right after another has ended.
3. Remember that once you hit the 6th level the "artifact" is in a file node. No need to do the switches/admin (other than pacify, if needed).
4. Use old Hack Raid company names when doing Sabo hacks to find new raids. (I saw you mention about not wanting to Sabo hack real business')

I'm sure you will have no probs with them. Welcome back, too!

EXP seems somewhat unrelated to payout amount for me. I think that 9k hack was 180-190 EXP, and I've gotten 210 exp for 4k hacks. It makes me think that EXP is less-randomly tied to SecLvl than file value is, but I'm not making another spreadsheet and SecLvl only shows up once briefly at the beginning of a hack - and really doesn't make any pragmatic difference. If it's a Business/Evidence hack, I'm just hacking it no matter what SecLvl it is, and if I'm doing my Randoms for the day, I'm (personally) more concerned about file value so I rush right over to the Admin node to run Evaluate.

For Hacking Raids, what exactly causes one to spawn? Like, do you have to physically be at a particular place in the city? Do they just randomly happen when you're attempting to start a certain kind of hack? The announcement intentionally doesn't describe anything about them, there isn't any information in the Wiki, I haven't run across a thread...

Sundial wrote:I would be interested to see what you uber hackers think about the SysAccess scripts, I don't think anyone has really tested them out. Would be another lil step up for max hackers, maybe.

New thread up for more discussion about that:

http://www.mooncalfstudios.com/pathofth ... =2&t=23298