hacking idea

[grimzombie]

ok an Idea I had for hacking..

sence I think you said you wanted this in 3 lvls

lvl 1: faster hacking time, can hack terms for them selfs, Can decrypt*

2: can hack terms for every one, can jack rides, Can encrypt* CC's
*encryption makes the 1:hacking process is longer and 2:longer timer before capture by less say 20%, But you can decrypt even after the caputer timer has started to remove the extra time countdown time

Note #2 only comes comes to play on a defender's encrypt, the attacker's encrypt just does #1

lvl 3: faster hacking times, can place black ice on CC's & baypass it
black-ice is like the mine in hacking world if a non lvl 3 hacker trys acesses a CC with a unfreindly ice in it a few thing will happen

1: they will take a minor damge

2: their hacking tool will be disruputed for a certin amount of time (30 secs?)

3: if its a ice on the defenders CC and an attacker trips it an alarm will go off

the thing I'm not sure about is how long the encrpt and black-ice should last, maybe 1 hour for encrpt and 30 mins for ice


hacking tool, would look something like a global From earth final conflict, for those that havn't seen the show I 'll post a pic..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/GrimZombie/images.jpg
this is while its open

it would hack doors and lite things while closed, But when you hack a CC it would open and the hacking menu will be shown..

[reekard]

i think if we are going with the whole hacking theme, hackers should also be able to do defensive hacking, kindof like what you said about the ice. For example, levels of encryption on anything that can be hacked. Everything starts as lvl 1 encryption, the easiest for nme hackers to hack (takes less time). If you level up hacking skill, it should level your decryption AND encryption skills. So hackers can go around lvling up the encryption on friendly terminals/vehicles/cc's to make them harder for nme hackers to hack. maybe lvl 2 encryption takes longer to hack, lvl 3 encryption takes longer than lvl 2. The lvl of encryption you can give something is determined by your encryption skill. And for the black ice or "hacker-mine" idea, it could be like a skill that the highest lvl hackers have, where you can use it on terminals once every 30 minutes or something, and if an nme tries to hack the terminal it explodes, killing them.

[Kyraal]

Check out this (http://www.markovforums.com/SMF/index.php?topic=2280.0) and this (http://www.markovforums.com/SMF/index.php?topic=2463.0) thread (abathur's (latter) one in particular) for what's already been discussed / is being discussed on the topic of hacking, to get an idea of where we are going with it for the time being :)