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[Aklyon]

Thanks to quinnr for telling me how I was being too overprotective of my attacker port once I'd finished punching the npc port.

[rumpel]

Bleh.
I ran out of money from healing my attacker instead of getting more money to get that cpu upgrade finally because the one you start with gives you so very little overhead to spare on letting things get beatup a bit. Any tips besides waiting for daily pay to pop-in?

Same here. I need some tips there, too.

[ScriptWolf]

I take it the website is safe ? I'm always really wary with java stuff, even more so since java is still horribly broken and flawed still

[quinnr]

I take it the website is safe ? I'm always really wary with java stuff, even more so since java is still horribly broken and flawed still

Yeah, it's been fine for me, no issues.

Bleh.
I ran out of money from healing my attacker instead of getting more money to get that cpu upgrade finally because the one you start with gives you so very little overhead to spare on letting things get beatup a bit. Any tips besides waiting for daily pay to pop-in?

Same here. I need some tips there, too.

I'll put some basic tips together this afternoon for the OP. Basically, keep your port manager open, and if your bank is attacked after attacking an NPC, attack their attack port and overheat them. Also make sure to keep some cash in the bank. Also, get a basic firewall as soon as you can.

[Aklyon]

Bleh.
I ran out of money from healing my attacker instead of getting more money to get that cpu upgrade finally because the one you start with gives you so very little overhead to spare on letting things get beatup a bit. Any tips besides waiting for daily pay to pop-in?

Same here. I need some tips there, too.

Heres the tip I got from Quinnr: NPCs can't do anything to your attack port except knock it down for a moment, and it only overheats if you're attacking with it. So theres no need to constantly heal the port after you've gotten what you wanted out of the npc unless you need it to overheat the bank attacker immediately.

[Starver]

I take it the website is safe ? I'm always really wary with java stuff, even more so since java is still horribly broken and flawed still

...oh, except for the fact that everyone's being secretly "cloudsourced" together in order to hack the Pentagon/Chinese Military/Google/one rather annoyed beautician in Milan who is just trying to set up a website for her salon that doesn't look like too much like Geocities*.

Mind you, as that's what's being done (albeit in a more obscure and abstracted manner) when you play Dwarf Fortress, I wouldn't let that put you off.


HTH, HAND.



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[ScriptWolf]

I take it the website is safe ? I'm always really wary with java stuff, even more so since java is still horribly broken and flawed still

...oh, except for the fact that everyone's being secretly "cloudsourced" together in order to hack the Pentagon/Chinese Military/Google/one rather annoyed beautician in Milan who is just trying to set up a website for her salon that doesn't look like too much like Geocities*.

Mind you, as that's what's being done (albeit in a more obscure and abstracted manner) when you play Dwarf Fortress, I wouldn't let that put you off.


HTH, HAND.



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That post was not really needed having asked a valid question.

[Starver]

Apologies, I thought I'd made it sufficiently OTT.  (Oh, and hey, look... a smiley!)

Seriously: Insofar as any website is safe[1] I thought the reassurance had already[2] been made.

[1] Java, ActiveX, Javascript, etc, and even just pure wetware-hacking of the person browsing it, there are so many subtle ways that legitimate web-tech can be subverted.  Mitigated, of course, by your usual contingent of antimalware scanners, default "Are you sure?" settings (at least until they get annoying and you auto-click them) and just paying attention...

[2] Maybe not.  I'm sure I had seen an "It's Ok" post from someone when I originally replied, but can't see it now in a brief scan of the Topic Summary while I'm editing this.  Yet more apologies if I was hallucinating that.

[Poltifar]

Here's another tip: When you get more ports (or if you already have many free ports), as well as more CPU, turn on extra attack and bank ports, and set them to default and dummy (2 checkmarks on the right of the port on port management window). The NPCs seem to have a preference for attacking those ports. Not sure if they need to be "before" your actual ports (that is, have a lower number) to encourage the NPCs to attack, as it's been ages since I set up my current ports and don't remember the exact reasoning I went through.

[quinnr]

Okay, if you go into the chat box, click Change AutoJoin Channels, and hit "Add New Row", and then type in "bay12", you can join our awesome chat channel!