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Rep is awarded for three reasons.

1. Downloading the core.
2. Downloading all the resources.
3. Controlling the network (in this case by installing access on every node).

If you don't do any of these you will be failing the hack, no matter what your personal objective was.

I understand where you are coming from, as when I was at 300 rep I started getting a lot of players who were well out of my range and I did just what you suggested. I connected to a target, let the preview timer run down and disconnected. This way I was losing between 10 to 12 rep each attack. I did...

Ummmm....dude, I think you need to look into some form of stress management. As it has already been pointed out, this is just a game.

Thanks for the credit on the cropped screenshot redhorse.

M0ToR wrote:Core needs 7+ taps to show a picture, Scanner needs 7+ seconds to show a canvas where you can draw this picture XORing cross patterns. Do you see where I'm going with this?

No.

Please explain further.

After you upgrade your compiler to level two you will need to start to think about the order you add programmes to the compiling queue. If you do this right you can get you waiting times down as low as 15 minutes, like me.

Remember, everything in this game is strategy.

Golden credit card?

\hack wrote:I've noticed the level indicator numbers on my nodes are usually white, but some are red... is there a reason for this?

A red number and on a node indicates that you have the required resources (gold or bitcoins) to upgrade that node.

Out of interest what's is it like down there at 0 rep. I remember in Clash of Clans there was a '0' club of people who basically just left all resources completely open to attack with no defence. The general rule was to take some but not all. And they basically just shared resources with each other...

And this is the fist time an admin has even made the slightest reference to the easter egg thread.