Help Getting Past Expert

::hakerz::

Thanks for the tips guys. That one about multiple hacks at once is great! Such a time saver. As of now, I am a Techno-Mage, I have cleared out 1 bank, half way through another, and possess around 850 thousend credits

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Trust is a weakness
Uplink Achievments:
**Completed all storyline missions (both sides, both special missions)
**Currently at Expert

::hakerz::

Thank you very much everybody. I just made it to TERMINAL today. Not much else to do I guess, unless there are any hidden things I havn't found yet.

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Trust is a weakness
Uplink Achievments:
**Completed all storyline missions (both sides, both special missions)
**Currently at Techno-Mage

LouisB3

I'll report any interesting progress of my own in few days. School has been keeping me from Uplink the last few days. Pesky homework.

I did some quick approximations, and I figured stealing all the small accounts' money would give around 600,000 more credits. A pretty sound investment of time if all you would be doing is fast-forwarding.

(Edit: The above figures are for 80 accounts (that's how many I have in my user right now) at a guessed average of 7500 credits each, counting illegal loan increases.)

(This message has been edited by LouisB3 (edited 11-20-2003).)

LouisB3

Talk about some huge loan bugs.

One of the features of the game is that you can't use extra bank accounts to get infinite loan money. Unfortunately, the game seems to go absolutely insane when messing around with other people's loans. The game reduces everyone's maximum loan (and loan, apparently) by the amount the one victim's amount of loan money tampered with. The game also increases everyone's maximum loan if you illegally reduce one person's loan by the amount you reduced.

In other words, the game seems to regard all accounts' maximum loan value in one big pot.

If this freakish oddity still isn't clear, I can see why. Examples: Hacker hacks into someone else's account and increases the loan. Everyone in the world's maximum loan is decreased that much. Hacker hacks into an account and decreases the loan. Everyone's maximum loan is increased that much. In both of these instances, the loan cannot exceed the max loan, so it is affected as well.

Yeah, it's not quite clear how every variable is affected in every possible situation. The point is that we're talking huge amounts of money. You can achieve impossibly high maximum loans, among other things. Serious issues here.

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mrxak

Interesting. I had noticed that some loans just couldn't be increased.

::hakerz::

Yeah, I have noticed that too. I just learned to ignore it, and just collect the balance from the account.

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Trust is a weakness
Uplink Achievments:
**Completed all storyline missions (both sides, both special missions)
**Currently at Techno-Mage

Miah Helpmann

I dunno if this is exactly "grave-digging..." (please tell me this board's definition, at IV, it's the second page...)

I found a great way to get to terminal in no time

Find a bank
Create new account under your username
Find any other account number
Find then password
Transfer 1 credit to your account
Delete tranfer logs
Repeat (5) & (6) until TERMINAL

If you use monitor/proxy bypass, you don't even have to stop to delog until you're TERMINAL, only after to prevent passive traces

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"It's like he still speaks to me... Ere I Am, J.H., the ghost in the Machine..." -Eugene Helpmann, Ministry of Information

mrxak

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Originally posted by Miah Helpmann:
**I dunno if this is exactly "grave-digging..." (please tell me this board's definition, at IV, it's the second page...)
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Just use your best judgment. Personally, I think grave-digging can be a very good thing, provided that somebody is adding something useful to the topic. Random posts to old (or new) topics is generally bad. Meaningful posts to old (or new) topics is generally not bad.