\ Haven:Mist and Shadow Gameplay/Hacking
Gameplay

Hacking

Levels: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Requirements: Rank 3 requires Thief, Hunter, Scientist or Engineer focus. Rank 4 to 5 requires Engineer focus 2-3.

This stat determines the ability of a character to hack computer systems.

Hacking 0

  • No ability to hack.

Hacking 1

  • Able to determine the presence of unencrypted information sent over a network.

Hacking 2

  • Able to read unencrypted material sent over a network, such as emails.

Hacking 3

  • Able to hack into poorly protected computers.

Hacking 4

  • Able to hack into most computers and read almost any legally encrypted material sent over a network.

Hacking 5

  • Able to hack into most professionally encrypted sites and can often crack even military-grade encryption.

Hacking the Police Band:

  • Characters with Hacking 2 and over can hack the local HSD police band to listen to ongoing dispatch messages. To do this, one must purchase a police scanner and simply hold it in one's inventory.

Each rank of hacking reduces the cost of doing a phone trace by 15%.
At Rank 3 it allows the jamming of a traced individuals communications.
At Rank 5 it allows the interception of the traced individual's communications.