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.