[Xerotic]

Release Thread: The Game Beta
Update #1: Shop & Battery Update
Update #2: OpSec, Leaderboard, and Items Update

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Today we have updated the HF Game to include the features from CrewCP into GameCP. This means that instead of visiting /crewcp.php to adjust your crew you will now visit /gamecp.php to manage your crew. Along with this we have also enhanced the mathematics behind Small Hack Jobs, thanks to Steve.


- Crew Integration
Crews have now been fully integrated into The Game. Visit the Crew page to check it out. Here you can view your crew information and (if you are a Crew Boss) manage your crew.

Crew Profile Preview (Click to View)

In the above image you can see what a crew profile looks like from the perspective of the Crew Boss. Here is a breakdown of some of the button controls:

Member & Boss Controls
- Below the userbar you have the icon that will either set or remove your crew userbar from displaying on your posts.
- To the far right of the "Vault Balance" row is a "money bag" icon that can be clicked to deposit Bytes into your crew vault.
- Directly below that is a "book" icon that can be clicked to access your crew logs.

Boss Only Controls
- At the bottom of each member "card" exist two buttons. The left hand button will remove the member from the crew.
- The right hand button will withdraw Bytes from the crew vault TO that member. Only a crew boss can manage withdrawals.

There is an extra navigation panel a little below your batter icon. Here there are 4 control buttons. The 2 on the left exist for every player. The 2 on the right exist only for a Crew Boss.

- The first button is the "PM Blast" feature where a Crew Boss can send a PM to all crew members, for a Byte fee.

PM Blast Preview (Click to View)

- The second button will bring you to your "Crew Management" page where you can update your crew name, description, and userbar (if applicable).
- This page contains a brand new crew feature: Transferring Crews. You can now transfer your crew to another member. That member must not currently be in a crew to receive ownership of a crew.

Crew Management Preview (Click to View)

- Mathematics
Steve has a background in mathematics and has been working closely with us during Game development to help ensure that progression and jobs are fair and logical. This includes an overhaul to Small Hack Jobs. Previously Small Hack Jobs had a clear choice in which was the most efficient but now we have altered it heavily so that you can explore for the best possible jobs again.


- Small Hack Jobs
We have decided to remove the captcha from Small Hack Jobs. We will be developing less intrusive methods for detecting malicious/botted activity.

In addition to this we have removed all the old jobs and populated the game with 13 new Small Hack Jobs for you to do.

Small Hack Jobs Preview (Click to View)

- Reset
To help test the effectiveness of our new math for Small Hack Jobs we have opted to reset all game players. This means your account is effectively restored back to level 0. No future resets are planned but in the event of a catastrophe it may still occur. However we intend to avoid a reset.


- Future Plans
A lot of development on HF has been focused outside of the game lately... but you should be glad to hear that the next couple of weeks will be dedicated to adding more gaming elements. You will soon have the ability to attack other networks and defend against attacks yourself.

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If your game does not look like the screenshots posted in this thread then you should clear your cache or relose those two pages:

https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/game.css

https://hackforums.net/fonts/hficons.css

Thanks for reading the release notes for Update #3 of the HF Game.

If you have any questions, comments, or bug reports then please feel free to post them below.

[Bacardi Cola Lime]

It’s great to see the new changes. You have the full support of the community on this game!

[Kosmos]

Lots of great changes, thanks man!

[BTC]

Truly amazing how fast these updates have came out brother 😈 Well done, and your hard work is much appreciated @Xerotic, @Steve and anybody else who contributed.

Edit: now it is time to grind :D

[Xerotic]

Just reconfigured the leveling formula so you may have noticed your level chance if you've played in the time since this thread was released.

[Lavish Living]

Just confirming, there will be atleast one more reset before the game is complete right?

Ie - when bytes are integrated we should expect another reset?

[SIM-403479]

Thanks for the update. Great work as always!

[Unexplained]

Just looking around the game cp for the first time and I gotta say it looks really good. I'll be diving deeper into it and checking out how it all works.

Thank you for putting in the work and effort!

[iNviZ]

Awesome man great work. Excited to try out the new features

[Mix]

time to be the best! thank you for this update been waiting a while and its gonna be so worth!

[DOG]

🤣 Excellent! Thank you again Xerotic! I’m so impatient to start the big fights again other crews

Edit: will we have notifications in the future when the time is up?

[Omniscient]

Just confirming, there will be atleast one more reset before the game is complete right?

I can't guarantee either way. Unless there is a specific problem that only a reset can fix, then I don't plan on resetting anything. We should be good for XP and the jobs.

Ie - when bytes are integrated we should expect another reset?

The plan for Bytes integration is to first allow you to deposit your Bytes and convert them to Game Cash. It is likely going to be a 1:1 exchange so 100 β = $100 Game Cash. The harder issue is going to be Game Cash -> Bytes withdrawals because that cannot be 1:1. We might set that very high at like 10:1. What we don't want is to ruin the Bytes economy that's already on the site. Over time we hope to have a balance and get members to both play the game and participate in community threads.

Edit: will we have notifications in the future when the time is up?

Not with My Alerts. Realistically it's a short timer with a max of 5 mins for the hardest job. As we add the PVP and PC Hack elements and delays are longer we may have to consider a form of notification. For now it's not something we are putting onto our workflow.

[Lavish Living]

I can't guarantee either way.  Unless there is a specific problem that only a reset can fix, then I don't plan on resetting anything.  We should be good for XP and the jobs.


The plan for Bytes integration is to first allow you to deposit your Bytes and convert them to Game Cash.  It is likely going to be a 1:1 exchange so 100 β = $100 Game Cash.  The harder issue is going to be Game Cash -> Bytes withdrawals because that cannot be 1:1. We might set that very high at like 10:1.  What we don't want is to ruin the Bytes economy that's already on the site.  Over time we hope to have a balance and get members to both play the game and participate in community threads.


Not with My Alerts.  Realistically it's a short timer with a max of 5 mins for the hardest job.  As we add the PVP and PC Hack elements and delays are longer we may have to consider a form of notification.  For now it's not something we are putting onto our workflow.

Awesome, time to grind I guess.

I'll probably cry for a day if you do end up resetting but then will get over it because fuck it.

👍

[Thornzzz]

The moon landing never happened thus why it's a 9% job of finding proof. If it truly happened, it'd be a 100% job.


Looks good though, good update. Actually started playing.

[DOG]

The moon landing never happened thus why it's a 9% job of finding proof. If it truly happened, it'd be a 100% job.


Looks good though, good update. Actually started playing.

Just happened to me! I have the proof 🤭
https://imgur.com/a/kQNdWpN