Heavyporker
18-12-03, 23:50
Yes, hacking isn't very deep atm...
But guys... when that runner bounty system comes back online...
what about making a new feature for those NCPD surviellance drones? ( FUCK YES, KK, THIS MEANS BRING THEM BACK! )
basically, the idea is- with some HCK (hell, yeah, even with the minimum req to USE a hacktool), and at a terminal, you can point your hacktool at it, then a small and limited menu comes up:
atm it'd only be "Runner Locations Report" (text feed, that tells you where he was last seen (zone), "NCPD Security Files" (ALL runners listed that are below -10 SL), and "NCPD Surviellance Logs" (those are the uplink paths and feeds to the NCPD drones).
Non-hackers can use the terminal to see the -32 SL runners.
Us hackers would just have the ability to get deeper into the logs. As the runner's SL gets higher than -32 SL, it gets harder and harder to find him through the logs in the NCPD Secuirty Files.
I put up the NCPD Surviellance Logs because.. mmm.. they are essentially scout drones, are they not? Well - They're drones on auto-pliot.... that means no RCL/WPW needed to track the damn things. BUT HEY! - You may recall that RCL increases HCK ability a bit, so that's more incentive for the droners to take a peek at this.
Basically, you'd just hack in to the Surviellance Logs, then try to hack into a specific sector in the city... (yes, you'd have to know which city sector your target was in, so more hacking around first, yummy!), then if you succeeded... here comes the lovely part - you actually get uplinked to the VIDEO FEED of the first NCPD drone to start making a patrol flyby over that zone! You can just look around below the drone, but you can't control it - its on autopilot. Yes - just one cycle then you're back to your terminal.
Could be enormously useful...
And to make it proper.... Failure at hacking something when in the NCPD files means you get an automatic loss of 10 SL at the first levels... but if you're REALLY deep in the files (I'm talking about the really sensitive stuff like the runners above -15 SL but below -10 SL) you could lose 30 SL a pop. After all... NCPD controls and determines the SL system... copbots are the guardians of that copbot system... bad sl means a naughty hacker has to stay far... far... away from copbots.
Yes - since anticity have terminals, they're in the HackNet, which means they can try to get into the NCPD files. Let's just say it'd be a bit tougher to DIRECTLY act on any info that some anti-city runners might glean from NCPD surviellance logs - they wouldnt be able to just run around in the city sectors without some risk. But the ability to do so is there, and there's always something to be said about collaboration :D
Guys, I don't remember seeing NCPD surviellance drones in Pepper Park.. but maybe there could be a lone one flying by around in PP sec 1 every 10 minutes or so, sort of like advance warning for the copbots in Plaza Three? This way, ppl can still get a look into PP sec 1 safely, and can still have a chance of tracking someone if they run into PP sec 1...
But guys... when that runner bounty system comes back online...
what about making a new feature for those NCPD surviellance drones? ( FUCK YES, KK, THIS MEANS BRING THEM BACK! )
basically, the idea is- with some HCK (hell, yeah, even with the minimum req to USE a hacktool), and at a terminal, you can point your hacktool at it, then a small and limited menu comes up:
atm it'd only be "Runner Locations Report" (text feed, that tells you where he was last seen (zone), "NCPD Security Files" (ALL runners listed that are below -10 SL), and "NCPD Surviellance Logs" (those are the uplink paths and feeds to the NCPD drones).
Non-hackers can use the terminal to see the -32 SL runners.
Us hackers would just have the ability to get deeper into the logs. As the runner's SL gets higher than -32 SL, it gets harder and harder to find him through the logs in the NCPD Secuirty Files.
I put up the NCPD Surviellance Logs because.. mmm.. they are essentially scout drones, are they not? Well - They're drones on auto-pliot.... that means no RCL/WPW needed to track the damn things. BUT HEY! - You may recall that RCL increases HCK ability a bit, so that's more incentive for the droners to take a peek at this.
Basically, you'd just hack in to the Surviellance Logs, then try to hack into a specific sector in the city... (yes, you'd have to know which city sector your target was in, so more hacking around first, yummy!), then if you succeeded... here comes the lovely part - you actually get uplinked to the VIDEO FEED of the first NCPD drone to start making a patrol flyby over that zone! You can just look around below the drone, but you can't control it - its on autopilot. Yes - just one cycle then you're back to your terminal.
Could be enormously useful...
And to make it proper.... Failure at hacking something when in the NCPD files means you get an automatic loss of 10 SL at the first levels... but if you're REALLY deep in the files (I'm talking about the really sensitive stuff like the runners above -15 SL but below -10 SL) you could lose 30 SL a pop. After all... NCPD controls and determines the SL system... copbots are the guardians of that copbot system... bad sl means a naughty hacker has to stay far... far... away from copbots.
Yes - since anticity have terminals, they're in the HackNet, which means they can try to get into the NCPD files. Let's just say it'd be a bit tougher to DIRECTLY act on any info that some anti-city runners might glean from NCPD surviellance logs - they wouldnt be able to just run around in the city sectors without some risk. But the ability to do so is there, and there's always something to be said about collaboration :D
Guys, I don't remember seeing NCPD surviellance drones in Pepper Park.. but maybe there could be a lone one flying by around in PP sec 1 every 10 minutes or so, sort of like advance warning for the copbots in Plaza Three? This way, ppl can still get a look into PP sec 1 safely, and can still have a chance of tracking someone if they run into PP sec 1...