Shred the Grid!

A Hidden BBS (Or an Encrypted Board) - We've all heard so much about the ratpack but where the hell is that BBS? I'm just talking one board stashed somewhere so smack could be talked....either that or maybe a whacky node with I dunno...gamma prime security, that you can't delete off of but only add. Kinda like a wall to tag on.

The BBS isn't that important though...

The Weather! Skywatch should be totally hackable in a King of the mountain fashion, changing the weather should difficult but possible and based on the level (Red, Gold, Green, Blue) , the current weather, and the desired condition.

Just imagine kiddies, "The WJF is coming to get me." ... "not in a class 5 hurricane, l33t!!"

Gridphones, its been mentioned by the J-man himself soO YEAH...if there was a backlog you could check by searching enter the number of the telephone that'd be sick. You'd have to need some specifics for this one though, if a grid fiend could access every conversation on the grid w/o knowing the number it'd be real ugly.

WJF Database, speaks for itself...it'd be nice to have read-only access for deckers. Read-write would have to be a righteus hack...maybe even GM approved...otherwise who would pay their fines?

The Bank, once again read-only access to prevent abuse. The ability to lookup someone's balance based their SIC # would be raw.

Cube farms? Maybe a database of what SIC # is in what room...perhaps? Too easy to abuse?

Adblimps, Eyepods and SIC Ads! It'd be interesting to be able to flash a quick message worldwide over an adblimp...or hijack an Eyepod to see what those kids are really selling around the corner...and hacking SIC Ads would be clutch...perhaps requiring GM approval post hack to ensure quality of the ad.

Outside of that, more in-game systems would be cool...I've noticed some progress with Freqman's and various tracking systems. Very cool!

Ohhh, and before I forget....

Username spoofing when modding nodes, a neccesity for any hacker.

Node lists of allowed users to modify.

And maybe someday...softz?
YARR!

In-game subsystems would be sick too...there are alot of hard to get places in the dome...maybe they should have blackboxes?

(Edited by ReeferMadness at 8:04 pm on Feb. 9, 2007)

I think it would be a great idea in theory, but there is also too much room for abuse. I mean most people would take advantage of the weather or the WJF and all that everytime they got a fine, so it would only be open to the upper 99th percentile of hackers to be able to access that kind of information.  Not to mention the amount of code involved to give the player ability to control the weather, it is probably not going to be considered for a while, if at all. I am not saying it isnt a good idea, but I think the staff has other things they're focusing on at the moment.

Just not too many people who are into them.

Why not filter the inbox so gridmails received from yourself are stored elsewhere?

A DataVault? Hell yeah.

The usernames node could function as a firewall, preventing access to it. If you can't hack my node, you can't hack my data....but if you do, you gain access to my data through another albeit more difficult skill+stat check.

What could be stored there?
Nothing...yet. But imagine eventually photos taken with (An advanced) FunCam could be "uploaded" to the grid and such. Its a silly thing but its valuable. If people have a place to store bogus data...other people might wanna steal it.

:stoned:

Oh, and I have responded to a topic I started 3 times in a row. I'm a post whore. Eat your heart out Iga.

I'm gonna reach 500...one day.

More stuff I'm gonna blab aboot...

SIC AMps - They should be able to be modified...to do tracebacks on id #'s of SIC aliases ala WJF-Ops. And perhaps even function as a box that can deamp as well as amp. Hence, creating a dead zone on the spot.

I think alot of the electro-tech in the game should have subversive functions when modified by someone with the electro-tech skill. Ala...

Assess (item) - lists possible modifications

Modify (item) - attemps to modify the item. Foul up on something like a e-note and you might get a shock. Foul up on something with security measures like a Tac-comp...you might get fried so bad you take a vat nap.

Just some thoughts.