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Traced a hacker in a circle....what do?

Postby Zalinth » Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:56 am

I took a "Trace an unauthorized money transfer" mission and started tracing the hacker responsible through the appropriately dated access logs as specified in the mission description. I traced him through 2 systems (a central mainframe and an internal services machine) but the logs at the ISM just took me straight back to the bank I started at...I have no idea what to do now. It's just a relatively small circle of access logs that lead nowhere.
Edit: After a look at a guide I think I may have been tracing myself. Do i feel stupid....sorry for wasting your time.
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Postby orillian » Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:55 am

you probably were not tracing yourself if you were allowed to take the mission, you need log undeleter.
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Postby Zalinth » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:20 am

No I was tracing myself. The mission wasn't telling me to trace myself though I was just looking at the wrong access logs. Got it figured out now.
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Postby mr_anonymous » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:36 pm

Really, you were not tracing yourself. The game will not allow you to accept a mission in which you are tracing yourself. It can't happen. I guarantee that you were either looking at the wrong set of logs, or you failed to undelete a log somewhere along the line.
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Postby xyzyxx » Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:46 pm

mr_anonymous wrote:Really, you were not tracing yourself. The game will not allow you to accept a mission in which you are tracing yourself. It can't happen. I guarantee that you were either looking at the wrong set of logs, or you failed to undelete a log somewhere along the line.


The mission in question was not from a company aimed at tracing the player character. The player simply followed (traced) the wrong path of logs; one that was left by his own actions.
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