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Recently there has been an explosion of new players (hoorah!) where the server has been put under huge amounts of stress which has lead to alot of emergency developments in hackcess to cope with the rush of new players.

As most of you realise hackcess is currently in beta, and with the surge of new players there have been alot of issues discovered in hackcess that were previously overlooked, and some of these issues have been abused by some bad eggs. So due to this, hackcess has had to go under alot of redevelopment, and this will include a lot of changes to the database. In the near future hackcess round 5 will be ending and a new round will begin.

When the new round begins players will need to re-register their account as it will be lost once the round is over.

Best of luck for hackcess round 6!

Hackcess Admin.
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Sucks. I might go for some other game... I don't want all my time spent on this game to be wasted because of a reset... :(

Unless we are already on the round 6 and they don't change rounds anymore.. :/
 
Well I've upgraded to lvl 2 virus, lvl 3 vault, and obviously Mhz and Kbps which I won't say here in fear of spied. I don't think it is really worth upgrading the virus early on since 95%+ of my income is from attacks not the cycles. So invest the 15k into Atk and Def if you are on the fence.
 
evilpigking said:
Well I've upgraded to lvl 2 virus, lvl 3 vault, and obviously Mhz and Kbps which I won't say here in fear of spied. I don't think it is really worth upgrading the virus early on since 95%+ of my income is from attacks not the cycles. So invest the 15k into Atk and Def if you are on the fence.
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I'm focusing on kbps and virus, mhz doesn't seem that important yet if you spend all your credits. I put most of my money into kbps and then sell it off to upgrade my virus. Rinse and repeat.
 
reallyfull said:
I'm focusing on kbps and virus, mhz doesn't seem that important yet if you spend all your credits. I put most of my money into kbps and than sell it off to upgrade my virus. Rinse and repeat.
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I'm not sure how much income gain you get per infected computer but keep in mind when you get hit you lose some so pumping virus and not Mhz is betting on against being hit. Which is not something I'd do given I've been attacked 6 times already (2 defended). Although I generally keep my credit count < than vault amount.
 
Also as a tip for hacking, make sure you compare you own leaderboard ranking compared to theirs to get an idea whether or not you'll be successfull. Basically if their mhz rank is lower than yours then they'll have less mhz than you. You should experiment with the thresholds but I recommend you at least upgrade your bandwidth to higher than your megahertz so you can use this tactic successfully.
 
Razorskin said:
How does the vault work?
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It "protects X credits" depending on level meaning if someone hits you you will always have at least that much assuming you had more than it to begin.

Ex. A: Your vault is lvl 3 so you protect 2,350 cr. You have 4k credits, they hit you for what would have been 50%. You will still have 2,350 cr left.

Ex. B: You have a lvl 3 vault (see above) and 500 cr. Someone hits you, they get no money but still disconnect computers.
 
Also looks like you get 5 cr. per tick per infected machine on your network. Hopefully that scales eventually otherwise it is a terrible return for upgrading the virus =/
 
evilpigking said:
It "protects X credits" depending on level meaning if someone hits you you will always have at least that much assuming you had more than it to begin.

Ex. A: Your vault is lvl 3 so you protect 2,350 cr. You have 4k credits, they hit you for what would have been 50%. You will still have 2,350 cr left.

Ex. B: You have a lvl 3 vault (see above) and 500 cr. Someone hits you, they get no money but still disconnect computers.
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Ahh ok I see.
 
evilpigking said:
It "protects X credits" depending on level meaning if someone hits you you will always have at least that much assuming you had more than it to begin.

Ex. A: Your vault is lvl 3 so you protect 2,350 cr. You have 4k credits, they hit you for what would have been 50%. You will still have 2,350 cr left.

Ex. B: You have a lvl 3 vault (see above) and 500 cr. Someone hits you, they get no money but still disconnect computers.
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Might I add that the percentage is taken from the amount you have outside the vault so in example A you will still have 3,175 credits left.
 
OgTheClever said:
Might I add that the percentage is taken from the amount you have outside the vault so in example A you will still have 3,175 credits left.
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I could retro edit it to "what would have been 50% [without a vault]" but I feel the meaning was clear enough.
 
Alright, assuming my math is correct (unlikely) it takes 376 ticks to regain the cost of updating your virus to level 2 from level 1 (15,000 cr).

x=# of ticks where "x=1" first tick after purchase. (and yes x=/= 0)
With a gain of 5cr per infected and 4 new infected per tick,

20(x) + 20(x-1) = 15,000 solve for x = 375.5.

This should hold true for the other virus upgrades as well assuming they keep the same formula (I know level 3 is 30k cr for 8 infections per tick)

So about eight RL days under the assumption you don't lose any connected machines during that period.
 
I hit someone for 90K before. they were on one of the first few pages. However, someone just hit me for 30K :/ and repeatedly he and someone else hit me til i had only like 6K left in quick succession
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
I hit someone for 90K before. they were on one of the first few pages. However, someone just hit me for 30K :/ and repeatedly he and someone else hit me til i had only like 6K left in quick succession
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You should have spent all that money before someone could attack you.
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
I hit someone for 90K before. they were on one of the first few pages. However, someone just hit me for 30K :/ and repeatedly he and someone else hit me til i had only like 6K left in quick succession
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Sounds like one person with multiple accounts.
 
Ya I'm still trying my luck trying to hit people who let their accounts go inactive and just sit there racking up credits. Usually I make 5-6k a hit sometimes I get 12-18k

Sweet, just tried the find someone high rank with low def strat, 24k and he was unguilded. Used it to double my Mhz and upgrade my vault to 4~
 
Yeah, and now I'm getting like 2K max on all my hits. my last one was literally 0. This is frustrating.

By the way, is the Buy/Sell mechanic broken? I know every time you buy something the price goes up. For example (Dont remember the prices) If you buy 512KB/S bandwidth for 6K, it goes to 6.2K.

However if you start off buying 10 of the 512kB/s bandwidth, you only spend 60K, whereas if you buy the 512kB/s one by one it creeps up i.e. 6.2K, 6.3K, 6.35K ... etc even if you end up only buying 10 you would spend WAY more at the end of the day.
 
Hackcess said:
Each time you purchase a computer future purchases of the same type of computer will cost slighty more as the computer will be in higher demand.
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It is written on the page. Does anyone know if it drops if you sell em back? Nvm it does
 
We should probably set up a system or something where each member has to click each person's link once a day or something. maybe

i dunno
 
sym90 (155), snus (160), duckie (187), vonF (169), Hackcess (171), tacticalpenguin (179), demandred (329)

the () is their rank, all of them have low ranking Mhz and BW but high overall rank and are unguilded. I can't vouch for profits hitting them, might not be any, might be >20k
 
I've clicked everybody's in this thread, though about half were already full. Thanks to all who clicked mine! :D

Just got a 24k hack and upgraded my virus. This is addictive fo sho.
 
evilpigking said:
sym90 (155), snus (160), duckie (187), vonF (169), Hackcess (171), tacticalpenguin (179), demandred (329)

the () is their rank, all of them have low ranking Mhz and BW but high overall rank and are unguilded. I can't vouch for profits hitting them, might not be any, might be >20k
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Score! Just got 41,000 from snus.
 
Guys, seeing how this game has those 'rounds' and all that.. I think I might go to Ogame (www.ogame.org) anyone wanna come with me? We can create a clan there as well.

I'm in the universe Capella.
 
OgTheClever said:
Score! Just got 41,000 from snus.
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Grats man.

Beaulieu said:
Maybe theres something I dont get but what would be the advantage of selling mhz and bandwith ? ?
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If you look at the base prices the higher ones are more efficient. But you only gain back 75% for selling, I do it when I'm at say 16k cr and can sell something to buy the 18k one. Generally I'll do it if I'm gonna be able to skip a model or two.
 
Mik2121 said:
Guys, seeing how this game has those 'rounds' and all that.. I think I might go to Ogame (www.ogame.org) anyone wanna come with me? We can create a clan there as well.

I'm in the universe Capella.
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Who knows how long the rounds last though. I'll try Ogame as well I guess, I'll prob drop Hackcess when the round changes or I get bored.
 
Played it, no me gusta. But you fellas feel free, there's a lot to do. I believe there are some kinds of limitations on how much you can do at one time in Ogame as well, though.
 
evilpigking said:
sym90 (155), snus (160), duckie (187), vonF (169), Hackcess (171), tacticalpenguin (179), demandred (329)

the () is their rank, all of them have low ranking Mhz and BW but high overall rank and are unguilded. I can't vouch for profits hitting them, might not be any, might be >20k
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No need to bother with this dude any longer. Took 67%, 16k.
 
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