Bouncing off of Terminals?

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Bouncing off of Terminals?

Postby Dan123The123Man » Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:01 am

I am a newby when it comes to this bouncing and what i've been doing is bouncing off of INternic as my first place and then about 15 *Terminals*. I'm not sure if its best to use Terminals or what, I was using them because they were white dots and I dont know, I just thought it was safer but now i'm questioning it. The internic on my map now has a Red Dot as well as another place. I can't check what the other place was that has a red dot because i'm at work atm but what do you guys think?
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Postby orillian » Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:58 am

if it is red red, then it is part of the story line, if it is red orange then it is because you marked it with those symbols next to the server names in your connection list.
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Postby Montyphy » Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:01 am

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Postby Dan123The123Man » Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:03 am

actually the dots are more orange looking then red, sorry I should have clarified that... What about the question I had about the terminals? Is it good or any safer to only bounce through terminals? I thought that all the terminals were a random phone that I was bouncing through... Heck I don't know what they are lol I just know they are terminals.
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Postby orillian » Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:30 pm

bounce through absolutly everything. first as you said use interNIC, next you want servers you have an account on, such as banks and so on, as these offer more time, then you can use the rest, phone, LANs, terminals, PCs, they are all fair game. Although one wonders how you get a connection log off a landline.
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Postby Montyphy » Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:38 am

Bouncing through phones, PCs, and public access nodes is pointless. Concentrate on using banks, government, LANs and mainframes.
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Postby Nixitur » Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:08 pm

BTW, is it true that systems you have an admin account on are better for bouncing than ones where you simply have a user account? Because if that's true, Internal Services Machines are best for early-game bouncing. Once you have the Monitor Bypass v5, you can simply use it, crack the password and disconnect without actually logging in as the admin. That's how I did my pre-hacking, but I don't know if it's actually useful.
Well, it definitely makes the final mission a lot easier because the other two targets are mainframes and banks and it takes too long to hack mainframes and banks trace you too quickly.
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Postby orillian » Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:03 pm

it is true, accounts you have admin rights on give you a longer trace time then accounts you just have a regular user on, but those in turn give you more time then an account with no rights.
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Postby Montyphy » Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:48 pm

On that note, create an account on all banks.
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