Hack Hacks Hacking
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A Combat Action against another player. | A Combat Action against another player. | ||
| - | *Cost :5 energy | + | |
| - | *Cool Down on Success: 15 | + | *Cost: 5 energy |
| - | *Cool Down on Failure: 5 | + | *Cool Down on Success: 15 minutes |
| - | *Not available against NPCs | + | *Cool Down on Failure: 5 minutes |
| - | *Ability to hack is based on Cloak | + | *Not available against NPCs |
| - | *Success is based | + | *Ability to hack is based on Cloak |
| - | *Defense is based | + | *Success is based on Cloak and Scan |
| - | *Does not require enemy ship to be disabled | + | *Defense is based on Cloak and Scan |
| - | Allows the theft of research and on rare occasions planet locations | + | *Does not require enemy ship to be disabled |
| - | + | *Allows the theft of research and on rare occasions planet locations | |
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| + | The following potential outcomes are confirmed by the game developer: | ||
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| + | Critical Success: You will steal the location of a planet in the enemy ship's database | ||
| + | Success: You will steal some research points from the enemy ship | ||
| + | Unsuccessful: No research points awarded | ||
| + | Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal research from your ship | ||
| + | Critical Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal the location of one of your planets | ||
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| + | It should be noted that Critical Successes and Failures are both rare events. | ||
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| + | There is also a "zero success": when you succeed in hacking a player who has no research points to steal, you receive a blue badge, but the cool-down timer is set to just 5 minutes and your "Successful Hacks" stat is not incremented. | ||
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See Also: | See Also: | ||
[[Raiding]] | [[Raiding]] | ||
Revision as of 23:35, 5 June 2012
A Combat Action against another player.
- Cost: 5 energy
- Cool Down on Success: 15 minutes
- Cool Down on Failure: 5 minutes
- Not available against NPCs
- Ability to hack is based on Cloak
- Success is based on Cloak and Scan
- Defense is based on Cloak and Scan
- Does not require enemy ship to be disabled
- Allows the theft of research and on rare occasions planet locations
The following potential outcomes are confirmed by the game developer:
Critical Success: You will steal the location of a planet in the enemy ship's database Success: You will steal some research points from the enemy ship Unsuccessful: No research points awarded Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal research from your ship Critical Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal the location of one of your planets
It should be noted that Critical Successes and Failures are both rare events.
There is also a "zero success": when you succeed in hacking a player who has no research points to steal, you receive a blue badge, but the cool-down timer is set to just 5 minutes and your "Successful Hacks" stat is not incremented.
See Also: Raiding