omgwtfbbq with 135 offense my max damage is 1800 and our best attacks damage is 200-210 -.- srsly someone needs to learn stuffs to fix gaems

also, did all possible things to get trouts attention

edit: where caps?

request ban all trolls -.-

no srsli hacker no is fien, our previous best attack got changed to damage 100-110 that cost 10 PP, where troll have tank and has 350 hit 3 refresh and camwhore have 300 hit 1 refresh low sexy cost -.-

after second nerf with my stats i can no longer pwn great firewall, zombie armageddon i always fail halfway through wtf -.-

Arbiter Posted:

no srsli hacker no is fien, our previous best attack got changed to damage 100-110 that cost 10 PP, where troll have tank and has 350 hit 3 refresh and camwhore have 300 hit 1 refresh low sexy cost -.-

after second nerf with my stats i can no longer pwn great firewall, zombie armageddon i always fail halfway through wtf -.-

In case you haven’t noticed, camwhores were majorly nerfed as well.

I mostly wonder how we are to pwn any forums that are over 33 in difficulty once Episode 3 comes around. As it stands 300 damage from the forum makes Dykea and Second Wife nearly impossible for myself. Emos are almost as powerful as Camwhores now again, Political Flamebait being brought down to a 1 refresh really makes Trolls far better but Hackers have such limited Processing Power and most of the time you are using 100 attack power abilities because of the insane refresh rates. They do however get the best equipment for what it is worth and can reasonably have both Attack and Defense over 100 if you get some good .moar files. They have definitely shot down to the weakest late game clbum next to Permanoobs.

However balancing isn’t a mbumive issue since there are limited competitive aspects that involve having really powerful characters. You don’t need to be powerful to get 3 lemon scoops for pwning Denture Chat and we don’t have any way to fight each other yet so having a somewhat weaker clbum makes for some varied gameplay.

Quoth Teh Wiki

* Seeing as you cannot upgrade Processing Power, you should make sure to Flezz grind every once in a while to get new Hardware. Get a graphics card before taking on level 5-6 forums, and just upgrade from there.

* Hackers have some of the weakest attacks in the game, barring Permanoobs and Re-Res. Make sure to keep up with this with Hardware, .moar files, and buffing your Offense stat.

* As far as secondary stats go, focus on Frugality in the beginning, but as the game goes on, make sure to get Upkeep to at least 7 so your equipment doesn’t degrade. You have the most equipment of any clbum in the game; repairs are a ****.

I used to be able to pwn the hard threads 2-3 above my level.

Now I have trouble doing the ones at my level!

We get nerfed a while ago, and I was like “wtf, at least our strong attacks aren’t super bad”

THEN you reduce the 300 damage attack to 210! All the other clbumes have 300 attack ones, and we have to refresh 6 for ours, they refresh 1!!!

This is just unfair. Buff us up Now!

SimplyTHEBEST Posted:

Bull****. The best camwhore attack is 225. Tell me, what are your stats?

Here, let me post mine:

Ego: 160

Sexiness: 1035

Offense: 92

Defense: 40

Luck: 47

Frugality: 11

Charisma: 58

Upkeep: 2

Olololol I R Teh Nub.

Ego: 7700

Proc. Power: 300

Offense: 42

Defense: 22

Luck: 1

Frugality: 10

Charisma: 10

Upkeep: 1

I believe I can provide a more balanced perspective.

Ego 625

Processing 225

Offense 146

Defense 76

Luck 59

Frugality 4

Charisma 37

Upkeep 1

Gear: Memoirs of a Hacker Hero, Versnatche Earbleeders, 4x Beastz0r, bumorted .moar files

Went to firewall. Lost on last thread after restoring PP twice with caffinated mints. No healing. I shouldn’t have to buy consumables AND pay for the repairs to everything if I’m going to be raped up the bum to pwn a forum 2 levels below me. Admittedly, I could have used other skills (bg2 instead of bg, for instance) but that would have taken even more turns to restore pp, causing no actual gain.

tl;dr: This isn’t easy, I’m going back to RIFLE to get Pink Floyd.

Judge-Bot 3000 Posted:

I believe I can provide a more balanced perspective.

Ego 625

Processing 225

Offense 146

Defense 76

Luck 59

Frugality 4

Charisma 37

Upkeep 1

Gear: Memoirs of a Hacker Hero, Versnatche Earbleeders, 4x Beastz0r, bumorted .moar files

Went to firewall. Lost on last thread after restoring PP twice with caffinated mints. No healing. I shouldn’t have to buy consumables AND pay for the repairs to everything if I’m going to be raped up the bum to pwn a forum 2 levels below me. Admittedly, I could have used other skills (bg2 instead of bg, for instance) but that would have taken even more turns to restore pp, causing no actual gain.

tl;dr: This isn’t easy, I’m going back to RIFLE to get Pink Floyd.

Your Frugality needs to be at least 10 to get the full value of things you sell. Your high repair costs are the direct result of having put no points into upkeep.

Respec with five fewer points of offense, and bring both upkeep and frugality to 10.

Thanks to upkeep, the reduced cost of repairs will FAR MORE than cover the cost of healing items. I’m not quite certain where the cap for upkeep lies, but even the best case scenario has it being useless past 20 points.

As far as frugality goes, the resulting 6.5% reduction in the cost of items is basically just a nice side effect compared to the ACTUAL benefit of junk selling for 35% more flezz. This will ALSO more than cover the cost of healing items.

Alternatively, you could get those upgrade points by NOT putting anything into Luck since it’s suffering from a low cap at the moment. If you’ve put 16 points into it, then that would give you enough to get both upkeep and frugality to 10 with a spare point left over – going by the stats you’ve presented, at least.

As far as tactics go, pick a heavy conservative cycle strategy – make the focus of your attack pattern be your attacks that do lots of damage for fairly low PP, but have high refresh times. Give each attack a priority (Always use, generally use, sometimes use, generally not used) and each restorative a priority (Frequent use, occasional use, infrequent use, emergency use).

A cycle is as long as it takes for your major long-cycle attack to cool down, and you have a lot of options in how you construct it. Generally, I would advise that you pick your cycle so that you use one or two weak and cheap PP restorative(s) every cycle so that your PP is kept either constant or gradually drifts to one side or the other, and that you either have plenty of attacks in your cycle that you can swap with healing, or a designated healing item point in your cycle with a choice of options. You’re running ego-lean, so you’ll probably to go with droppable attacks instead of designated healing points. Working Poetry and Recipes into your cycle is a good idea, as the long cooldowns and high damage give you nice cycle lengths that without cutting into your PP.

In battle, let your PP run down until it’s in the middle before you start using your restoratives. Your goal is to keep it in a middle-range, as you neither want to waste PP or run low. If you had more Ego then I’d have suggested the same for that, but with the way that stands I think you would be better off dropping low-priority attacks to heal, and working everybody’s favorite healing-over-time item into your cycle for insurance.

You’ll end-up using more healing items, BUT they will be cheaper ones that you can buy by the crateload without straining your piggy bank.

To compare, cheap healing items are useless to me. Since I don’t get to have an attack cycle, I *have* to take a sizable hit to my damage every time I use an item, and using a lot of them to keep my health up would result in my being unable to deal any real damage at all. If I need to heal then I need to do it with one item, and I have to pay a premium for that.

With a Frugality of 1:

Smileprin XR heals 100 ego at a cost of 824, while 5-HTP heals 300 ego at the cost of 7,060.

Caffeinated Mints restores 45 PP at the cost of 512, while Keep On Truckin’ Ephedrine restores 90 PP at the cost of 2,386.

In short:

Through careful management you can easily keep your consumables and repair costs down to a fraction of what you’re spending now with only an insignificant loss of damage, and boost your income in the process; it all boils down to careful stat selection and intelligent combat decisions.

Make the changes I suggested, then come back and give us a status update. I’ve absolutely no doubt that the game will become a LOT easier for you.