Hacker Array is OP

(and I love it)

from Stardock Forums

I just wanted to post about the hacker array.  Getting one early and just repeatedly shorting something and building more and more factories for it will just give and insane advantage in late-mid and late game.  It is super powerful if it is not being actively countered by someone with a hacker array or people aren't emp'ing all your factories all day.  It's not too hard to get the price of something over 1000 which with  factories for it will just end the game super fast.

Perhaps a chance of failure for the hack?  Punishment for getting caught?  Higher prices for the hack?

 

Thanks for the great game :)

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I used to like the hacker array.  Not so much right now.

 

Id like to like it again. 

 

Wanna do some games, test your hacker strats against me?

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

The price of a hack gets higher the more you hack, and the amount a hack affects the game increases the more players there are in a game. Those balance poitns seem fine to me, especially when the logical comparison to a hacker array is an offworld, which almsot always provides just so much more.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

The hacker array seems a little bit behind the patent lab/offworld/ebay, but both of those require more investment.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting indczn1, reply 3

The hacker array seems a little bit behind the patent lab/offworld/ebay, but both of those require more investment.

 

The offworld market usually never seems worth it to me.  Unless there is just tons of resources and everything is low priced the return just doesn't make it worth it.

Patents and engineering are very map dependent but it seems the hacker array can be too abused.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Pbhead, reply 1

I used to like the hacker array.  Not so much right now.

 

Id like to like it again. 

 

Wanna do some games, test your hacker strats against me?

 

I would love to play some OTC online.  haven't gotten into an online game yet.  Maybe I'm only on during the low population times or something.

 

If you want to play a game or two today send me a message and maybe in 1-2 hours from this message?  Or maybe another day is cool too.  If you have anyone else to invite I wouldn't mind that either.  I don't know anyone who plays at the moment :)

 

We need reddit to set up a teamspeak or something.  Are there any public OTC teamspeaks?

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Burnrate, reply 5


Quoting Pbhead,
reply 1

I used to like the hacker array.  Not so much right now.

 

Id like to like it again. 

 

Wanna do some games, test your hacker strats against me?



 

I would love to play some OTC online.  haven't gotten into an online game yet.  Maybe I'm only on during the low population times or something.

 

If you want to play a game or two today send me a message and maybe in 1-2 hours from this message?  Or maybe another day is cool too.  If you have anyone else to invite I wouldn't mind that either.  I don't know anyone who plays at the moment :)

 

We need reddit to set up a teamspeak or something.  Are there any public OTC teamspeaks?

 

This is why you think this. The AI doesn't handle surpluses/shorts very well so its free money. Humans, however, do, which makes the hacker array worse and risky.

 

Add me on steam and we can arrange some MP: indczn