Does active trace progress affect a passive trace?

[jay1113]

If an active trace gets to X bounce point before I disconnect does the passive trace following it start from the system I was attacking, or from bounce point X?

[StriderVM]

A passive trace begins when the active trace starts. They're just a lot slower.

Basically it's an invisible active trace that uses the log files of the servers to track you.

I verified this by using banks. Since they have the fastest passive traces.

[Nixitur]

A passive trace begins when the active trace starts. They're just a lot slower.

Basically it's an invisible active trace that uses the log files of the servers to track you.

I verified this by using banks. Since they have the fastest passive traces.

I think that's not the question, but I don't know the answer either.

The question isn't when the passive trace starts, but where it starts. Does it start at the last node that was traced by the active trace? Or does it trace from the system you hacked?

[NeatNit]

Yes, passive traces starts where active traces are stopped.

[mr_anonymous]

No, it doesn't. Here is a quick way to answer this question for yourself without needing access to the source code: hack a server, and leave InterNIC or the Uplink Test Machine as the last bounce in the chain. Using the HUD trace thingy (I don't recall right off what it is called), allow yourself to be traced back in the chain a fair distance before disconnecting. Then log into InterNIC/Uplink Test Machine and delete the logs. You will not be traced, arrested, or disowned.

[NeatNit]

I could have sworn I read somewhere that it does start where the active stopped. I must remember wrong then, or the post was wrong. mr_anonymouse is probably right!

[frenchfrog]

If my memory serve me well, the game is very clever, the passive trace is a mission (pretty much the "Trace a hacker" mission the player can get) and assign it to a random AI agent