Hacking a life out of the NBZ.

[LordofSyn]

Maybe its just me chummer...

There seems to be this collective groan about Data Terminal runs in this game. Am I the only one who likes what we already have and somewhat salivate over what's to come? I love digging deeper into the addresses, always looking for more info.

It does compliment most missions in pay and has its necessary place within the game, but there seems to be this Hardcore Fleshie resistance towards jacking in for any paydata.

I hold no ill will to any Fleshie, that's your thing. TempTaps for you. I love the ride, to hear the binary beatbox in your skull. To feel the crackle of petaFLOPs, to harmonize with the Ohm. Fleshies just don't get it.

I respect every Knight, Fleshie or no. We are family.

[absimiliard]

To be honest I do have a problem with hacking, well, not with hacking per se but with using it in my games.

The problem I have isn't that I don't like the hacking mini-game, I do, it's that selling the paydata is rough. I either am a young character, and thus don't have the v-chips for datahounds or the rep to sit in back-rooms across the city (even assuming I could safely get to them), or I'm old and am probably testing some theory that excludes hacking.

This problem with selling paydata when I need to be able to sell it, i.e. during my early and mid-games, is aggravated by the huge rep swings I can get from selling paydata. That I'm ignorant of the systems details makes it worse, the rep swings can seem remarkably unpredictable to me.

So for my characters who want to hack they either can't find buyers or they fear selling the data to the buyers.

(once I'm done with some more armor testing I do intend to start up a thread where I'll take a few runs at trying to train up a hacker knight and juggling the alliances, but for now the politics and economics of selling paydata are still kind of unknown {and scary} territory for me)

-abs

{edit} I should probably note that I do really enjoy mentally mapping out the network. As a sysadmin I'm particularly tickled by all the in-jokes that have been put in place for me to laugh at when I hack as well. {/edit}

[blackgauntlet]

Actually, if you're not planning to do some extensive traveling, hacking really is the best way to get you cash. Fast.

[cybergenesis]

Except that in Los V territory, the KH and Yak hounds cost you often far more than they pay for that data

[grävling]

Mar 1, 2012 0:56:48 GMT -5 cybergenesis said:

Except that in Los V territory, the KH and Yak hounds cost you often far more than they pay for that data

??? In Los V Territory you get Los V hunds, etc.

My objection to hacking is that I find it boring. I guess I am more of a 'kill kill kill' sort of person.

[cybergenesis]

i meant the ones in VIP rooms

Boring sure, but it is a quick buck if there were easier ways to dump the data

EDIT: I mean sure, you can hang out in Star territory and phone-dump to Malloy all day, but the data has a lot of heat generated to be dumped for <100nY

[grävling]

Ah, data hounds, not hunds. My bad. Sorry to be confused.

[Cory Trese]

The key solution to this is that we will add other uses of Paydata.

Using it to "grind" out passwords, reputation, prototype plans, or computer programs / files.

Selling it will be the "elite" move for top-tier connected Knights. Right now the payment system is flat as well -- once we add more uses of paydata we'll also graduate the buyers to a price scale.

[blackgauntlet]

I wonder how much are they paying for a copy of "New Paris" Hilton's sex scandal video. ;D

[cybergenesis]

Shiny, good to know

[LordofSyn]

It was mighty stuzzy
...until the scene with the hund.

ack!!!!!!!

[LordofSyn]

Mar 1, 2012 22:05:48 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

The key solution to this is that we will add other uses of Paydata.

Using it to "grind" out passwords, reputation, prototype plans, or computer programs / files.

Selling it will be the "elite" move for top-tier connected Knights. Right now the payment system is flat as well -- once we add more uses of paydata we'll also graduate the buyers to a price scale.

[Slide87]

Well grav,i hope that future matrix will have also combat,and not only the actual interface it would be more interesting...

[LordofSyn]

@slide I am sorry I haven't answered you, I am thinking I will start a thread in our Fan section. I am sure the questions you asked me privately about Decker would be better answered for anyone who has tried it.

As for the future of Matrix...

I am all for the vision of TB. I am very curious as to the brainstorming session on what can or cannot be implemented and just how far down the rabbit hole goes. I know it is BETA, and still early. I love where you are going with your comment above @cory.

[Slide87]

Don't worry LoS,i opened a thread in General board,BG answered me =) and i got the manual for that game =) more simple now =) I continue to die,but less often,and more experienced...=)
On topic, I remember Cory said that CK Matrix system was really BETA,and we'll see new several features,as they add in the interface =) I think he also told something about combat in matrix =) I hope this =) Yes,after seeing Decker(that's similar to SR matrix,not?),i hope the system will be oriented in that way,obviously on CK brand(I and surely you don't want a copy ^^) ^_^ Anyway Cory and Andrew and the sock puppets(!) know how all will be and, as they made in the past,in the future they will amaze us =)
Concluding....Cheers to Ck ahahah XD