What if it's space cash? That stuff is worthless. ;)

(Also he means that if you get too much money early on the game becomes a cakewalk as you can buy every upgrade and there's no challenge anymore.)

I was suprised how easy it was, and I did after about 1-2h in the game, with basic hardware ;S

Well, it's fun until you run out of things that you can buy :)

It's knowing what to do to avoid getting caught that can be a problem if you're just learning the ropes. ;)

Plus i'd rather earn my monies the old fashioned way.....through hacking stuff(And plain old fashioned extortion/blackm...err "creative business ventures"....;)...)

I know what you mean but hacking a bank account, it was exciting like hell, thought i did mistake, i was sure i'm taking 90000c and it was 900000c, one 0 make difference ;S

The only thing you can spend money on (in the game) is hardware and software - unless you add something to the game (the source code is included - I haven't tried to compile it, only looked at it). And stealing from banks is hard. Well, actually, stealing is quite easy - it's getting away with it that's hard. I stole 700k from some guy that was doing something he shouldn't be doing, but seconds after I'd wiped the logs etc, the FBI made a house call.. It's a lot easier hacking the game if you need/want lots of money ;-)

it's a real shame it doesnt appear they gonna make a sequel , seems to have alot of potential.
or just the idea of multiplayer , being able to hack someone else (virtual) pc, but also for the other to defend it.

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It's not that hard when you get how all this work, you just need to remember to not delete all logs (to be more precise you need to erase some specific logs) and you need to be fast.

Yea, on other hand I think i heard smt about iOS or Android version of orginal game

Time to get some sleep :)

But, to stay on topic, I will repost smt...

Mirrors Edge is -75% on steam sale next few hours and I would love to play it. Just saying :)

goodnight dont let the bedbugs bite.

Real hacking is quite different from how it's done in Uplink as you're only using tools, not making them or even modify them for other purposes etc. If you were to defend your gateway/server in a multiplayer game with this kind of hacking, it'd be reduced to a question of who's invested the most in "protective software".

There are "real" hacking games, though, where you try to break into (jailed) boxes, then trying to maintain "ownership" etc, out on the internet. I haven't messed around with this in years so I don't know what's up and running today but google probably knows. (Not that I've ever been good at rooting etc - writing tools is more my thing..)

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From what I heard, it's easy: Create account at target bank(legally, without hacking), then hack bank(with the right software running) and transfer funds from a target account into your newly made accout at that bank. Then delete the transfer logs of both the hacked bank account and your bank account(at that bank), and the logs on Internic.

Yes, it's not that complicated, but you need to do all this fast - that's where the challenge is. My mistake was that I thought that they wouldn't be running a passive trace if they hadn't already ran an active one (I bypassed monitor and proxy), so I thought I had more time than I actually had. Also, I transferred the money to a different bank - perhaps that was the mistake, I don't know. The feds don't tell you how they caught you.. =P

Anyway, as Trid said, getting lots of money too early kind of spoils the fun.

Agreed...but if someone here wants to do it, well now they know how. ;)

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