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Updates News Post #289

Hacking and the Cerebral Augment Chambers.

Written by: Ilyos, the Arbiter
Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Addressed to:


Hacking updates:
- Hacking Contracts cooldown reduced to 11 hours from 12
- FRAY Priority Contracts now reduces the cooldown to 7 hours instead of 8
- Embezzling now gives hacking experience that will count if you're at hacking level 19 and above


Daily Faction Quest (CAC) Updates:

- The CAC Tracking and augmenting system has been re-written. Hopefully related bugs are now fixed
- CAC PAY COSTS costs reduced to 6,000 marks
- You can now stockpile Report Slivers and you will lose one per RL day if you have any unused ones
- You may now undertake CAC Tasks from anywhere. Rules for completing them stay the same.
- Augmenting a CAC bonus now leaves a note in the org logs
- There is a new ability in the Ops section of Hacking: AB HACKING CAC. This ability will let you steal up to 3 invested report slivers from another faction's CAC. Do note that this is considered an aggressive action against another faction.
- Hacking another faction's CAC will grant hacking experience that will count if you're at hacking level 19 and above


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