800,000c and all I had left to buy was the Lan Tools. Kinda weird - *just* finally got the 'Trace a Bank Transfer' mission on this 3rd game, which usually seems to come rather early for me - I almost always go from Alpha to the file server or trinity in one hop just by being 'vewy vewy quiet' until I get monitor/proxy bypass 5, and this time I actually had the whole file server setup upgraded before I got that mission this time. So dead mainframe made revelation fizzle, and I sold the agent list just because I couldn't remember what happened if you did that Oh yeah, they start killing off hackers! Then I lost the second fair and square because I *did* get lazy hacking three or four banks in a row and cleaning them up all at once. Won one 'accidentally' by somehow missing the Hacker mission (I didn't realize it *could* time out - I've never timed out on it before!), and crashing ARC's mainframe at the right time, not even because I planned it that way but because I was irritated at breaking the storyline. I mean, *sure* you could use a pen and paper, but what are we, cavemen here? Random bounce is cool, but that notepad is *really* nice when you accept 18 'steal/destroy a file' missions and want to sort then out by server so you can get paid five or six times for one hack. Also, a notepad and a random bounce generator. It looks nicer but the really nice improvements are interface things like not having to backspace over fields when you click on them, context menus, hotkeys. I've run a couple more runs since then in uplink and uplinkOS - Which is a fairly nice facelift to the system btw. That game was just buggy for some reason, and thus irritating despite the fact I was only two hours in. No, I found reports of a bug similar to this one and have hacked banks before I've done testing and it didn't do that (Just 'pick up' an active trace where it left off after you disconnected and reconnected) on any other runs.
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