neromancer ranking

[Vix]

i have allways woundered how would i get the the infamous rank the fastest any one?

[Aurora Yukihime]

I simply get it every time I play the game. In fact, I have to actually try if I want to be good.

Here's how it works. All missions, even the ones from ARC and Arunmor, are either positive or negative. Obviously, positive brings your neuromancy rating up and negative brings it down.

Anything that damages a company (stealing/destroying databases, destroying mainframes, and completing LAN hacks) is positive, while anything that benefits a company (any of the government system missions, bank hacks, and ruining lives) is negative. It is harder to be positive than it is negative, both in effort and payment.

[The Byleth]

If you want your neuromancer to go up you need to target big company's instead of induviduals. however your neuromancer is pretty much useless because it doesn't effect anything in any way.

Hope it helps :)

[Cloudrei❦]

Originally posted by Minoriko Aki:

I simply get it every time I play the game. In fact, I have to actually try if I want to be good.

Here's how it works. All missions, even the ones from ARC and Arunmor, are either positive or negative. Obviously, positive brings your neuromancy rating up and negative brings it down.

Anything that damages a company (stealing/destroying databases, destroying mainframes, and completing LAN hacks) is positive, while anything that benefits a company (any of the government system missions, bank hacks, and ruining lives) is negative. It is harder to be positive than it is negative, both in effort and payment.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan. I always do the negative stuff ._. But what parts do you recommend getting the postive ones?

[burning.phoneix]

Actually, even missions that help people (ie, giving people qualifications) is considered "bad" by the game. Hurting companies raises it.

[Aurora Yukihime]

Originally posted by Cloud#NEVERFORGETIB:

Originally posted by Minoriko Aki:

I simply get it every time I play the game. In fact, I have to actually try if I want to be good.

Here's how it works. All missions, even the ones from ARC and Arunmor, are either positive or negative. Obviously, positive brings your neuromancy rating up and negative brings it down.

Anything that damages a company (stealing/destroying databases, destroying mainframes, and completing LAN hacks) is positive, while anything that benefits a company (any of the government system missions, bank hacks, and ruining lives) is negative. It is harder to be positive than it is negative, both in effort and payment.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan. I always do the negative stuff ._. But what parts do you recommend getting the postive ones?

Well, to get the positive ones, it's pretty hard. In the early-game, you have to go negative at first or else you'll never be able to afford to get to Experienced rank. Quickly get all the tools you need to go at Central Mainframes so you can get to destroying databases and mainframes. They will be your primary jobs until you get a bigger computer, where you'll worry about copying databases then.

There's no gameplay difference if you're positive or negative - Arunmor, ARC, and Uplink don't give a flying crap

[Flowernose]

Ok! making companys suffer=up and making people suffer = down.BUT what is the reason for this up and down?
how will the game play out if im up and how will it play out if im down?
is down something that you dont want to be

[burning.phoneix]

Nope. It has no effect on the game.

[Aurora Yukihime]

Originally posted by Vash:

Ok! making companys suffer=up and making people suffer = down.BUT what is the reason for this up and down?
how will the game play out if im up and how will it play out if im down?
is down something that you dont want to be

The storyline, emails, and overall gameplay will be unchanged as a result of your neuromancy. It's simply a gauge of what kind of missions you do most often.

[Mkananoja]

neromancer rating does however affect which jobs companies are willing to give to you. if your ranking is 'bad', youll find out that some might outright refuse to give the job for you. quite often when your neromancer status is 'bad' they dont give you jobs that require your neromancer status to be 'good'. however this seems not to be an issue when situation is reversed.
this would make gaining good neromancer status much more challenging than going all bad.

Of course necomancer status doesnt affec tthe main story arch at any way.

On a sidenote, it is funny to see mission list start to fill up with "trace a hacker who recently broke into our system" missions and you cant accept them either. what you mean i cant accept a mission where the hacker is me? xD