Any tips for new players?

[rusty]

DO NOT BEAT BERLINER kreditbank

Push for portal and keep hacking that one mission when you need gold. You will get ~400k each go

7 access, 1 portal and use your preference to get the the gold

Note: if you get your access and leach high enough you can stealth hack the gold

[Kaiser]

Decided to post here.

I'm level 16, and I have a slight problem.
Before, range of my opponents was comfortable.
Now, I mostly face 20-25 level. Sometimes, I have 18-19, but they are monster defended.
Very seldom, I meet 16-14 levels, but they are 99% of cases poor for resources.
What to do?
I upgraded cannons, ice-wall, shurikkens, worms for 4th level, I have other all programs protector, wraith, access, dleeches.. Actually, I paid more attention to attacking, having 80 slots in libraries. But still, I feel big difficulty.
It's a feeling like a game brings me opponents, not according to my level or my under-developped network, but takes into consideration my experience 700+ and a bit developed programs.

In two words, two strong opponents.

[Proxychains]

Don't spend those beautiful credits you get when you start the game for the first time. You'll need it later, trust me.

[SxSnipeR]

Don't spend those beautiful credits you get when you start the game for the first time. You'll need it later, trust me.

Spend them on build threads at start of course

[e1a00000]

Decided to post here.

I'm level 16, and I have a slight problem.
Before, range of my opponents was comfortable.
Now, I mostly face 20-25 level. Sometimes, I have 18-19, but they are monster defended.
Very seldom, I meet 16-14 levels, but they are 99% of cases poor for resources.
What to do?
I upgraded cannons, ice-wall, shurikkens, worms for 4th level, I have other all programs protector, wraith, access, dleeches.. Actually, I paid more attention to attacking, having 80 slots in libraries. But still, I feel big difficulty.
It's a feeling like a game brings me opponents, not according to my level or my under-developped network, but takes into consideration my experience 700+ and a bit developed programs.

In two words, two strong opponents.

Drop your rep. And learn some tricks to attack.
I had, or never had the same issue as you did. Yes, my target levels were ridiculous. Nah, I wipe the floor with them. Since 16 till now (22) I hit people up to 9-10 levels ahead of me. They had some very nice res. 16 range is the best since there is a huge gap in res that a 16 and 25 can give.
One of my biggest hit at 16 was a 25 with 96k gold. You don't get that much hitting around your level at all.

[e1a00000]

Decided to post here.

I'm level 16, and I have a slight problem.
Before, range of my opponents was comfortable.
Now, I mostly face 20-25 level. Sometimes, I have 18-19, but they are monster defended.
Very seldom, I meet 16-14 levels, but they are 99% of cases poor for resources.
What to do?
I upgraded cannons, ice-wall, shurikkens, worms for 4th level, I have other all programs protector, wraith, access, dleeches.. Actually, I paid more attention to attacking, having 80 slots in libraries. But still, I feel big difficulty.
It's a feeling like a game brings me opponents, not according to my level or my under-developped network, but takes into consideration my experience 700+ and a bit developed programs.

In two words, two strong opponents.

Also your program list looks diverse. You shouldn't be having much issues except a few rare good bases. Heck even now most of my hunts are with beams, ice, shurikens and rams, with some occasional protector and blaster.
I recently unlocked wraith (pretty late, wasn't my priority) and I don't plan to use it except against certain strong bases due to compile time lol.

[Hell_Diguner]

When compiling an assortment of programs, compile the most time consuming ones first. If you do them last, it may take longer to complete.

Example: 30 Beams, 1 Code Gate, 2 compiling threads. Each Beam takes 20 seconds; Code Gate takes 10 minutes (600 seconds).

If you compile the Beams first, it will take (600/2)+600 = 900 seconds (15 minutes)

If you compile the Code Gate first, it will take (600+600)/2 = 600 seconds (10 minutes)

[Sutopia]

Decided to post here.

I'm level 16, and I have a slight problem.
Before, range of my opponents was comfortable.
Now, I mostly face 20-25 level. Sometimes, I have 18-19, but they are monster defended.
Very seldom, I meet 16-14 levels, but they are 99% of cases poor for resources.
What to do?
I upgraded cannons, ice-wall, shurikkens, worms for 4th level, I have other all programs protector, wraith, access, dleeches.. Actually, I paid more attention to attacking, having 80 slots in libraries. But still, I feel big difficulty.
It's a feeling like a game brings me opponents, not according to my level or my under-developped network, but takes into consideration my experience 700+ and a bit developed programs.

In two words, two strong opponents.

Drop your rep. And learn some tricks to attack.
I had, or never had the same issue as you did. Yes, my target levels were ridiculous. Nah, I wipe the floor with them. Since 16 till now (22) I hit people up to 9-10 levels ahead of me. They had some very nice res. 16 range is the best since there is a huge gap in res that a 16 and 25 can give.
One of my biggest hit at 16 was a 25 with 96k gold. You don't get that much hitting around your level at all.

my best was 250k gold at level 15 striking a level 21 and that was insta filling of my database
I did intentionally drop rep to like 200 and you find a lot of poorly defended rich men

[Kaiser]

What is the goal of the game?
On first levels it was a key goal to develop most important programs
Then it was necessary to upgrade those programs and build defence
Now, approaching lvl 20, I have all I need to attack almost all kind of network, any defences are easily broken, with portal, wraith, shurikens of 6 level, upgraded walls.

Yes, core 7 takes 4 days to upgrade. What to expect when I need core 10? Two weeks?
It's really long time. And further I go, the longer it takes with all those builds.
Game becomes less challenging.
Imagine, you like a book, you want to read it, but to unlock another page, you have to wait some days.

[nighangel]

Have to agree with Kaiser

Any normal time over 3 days (without extra build thread bonus)
is frankly making the game worse and suck