Thanks for a very fast patch on closing the game on Steam!

You are awesome!

It is you that is awesome

good stuff

Love it so far but a tutorial is needed. Many people will come with no coding knowledge and hate on the game.

And even with some knowledge, doing JavaScript from scratch is still something to learn.

I also can't seem to find how to edit my files using VScode or WebStorm.

And is it just me or is the basic documentation just plain bad and missing most stuff you'd need to start scripting?

Do I make a server hack itself with a script or do I hack one server from multiple others with a script? Whats the meta?

No YOU are awesome <3

Before starting this game i had no clue how to code. After a brief tutorial, some searching around in the full documentation and some trial and error. I can confidently say i have infected every server in the game with a script that will pull updated scripts from home and run them on every server that is hackable.

From zero to hero in roughly 13 hours!

Yes i agree with others that the tutorial was a bit confusing at some points. Tips i want to make for anyone reading this:

1. Use NetScript 2, aka create a .ns script instead of .script. The differences isn't huge in the way you use them but NS2 is a thousand times better. You can use .script for menial tasks like moving and copying a list of files, but other than that NS2 should be your main way of scripting.
2. Make a script for infecting the server you choose with all the files that you require.
3. Make different scripts for different functions, one for hack, one for grow and one for weaken. Make one script that runs in one thread that checks the server every now and then for whatever your parameters are (how much money, security etc), and then make it run the hack, grow, weaken scripts as needed.
4. Upgrade the ram in your PC, and don't augment until you're in the hundreds of billions in cash. (because starting over is slow in the beginning, so you don't want to restart everything over and over)
5. You can use "download *.ns" on your home pc to download all .ns scripts to your real computer. Useful if you don't want them getting removed when augmenting!

and finally best tip of all;

6. When coding, if you have a lot of repeating things in your code, make a function or make variables for it! You can make a variable into an argument so it's more flexible if you run it manually or just want to change some values with a script that updates all other scripts.
This will in turn, keep your script size down so you can run more threads for more money etc over time. And then you can execute all those scripts with varying parameters from one singular big script that scans for targets, checks current server for money, security etc.

Good luck Netrunner!

Originally posted by GreenMan36:

Love it so far but a tutorial is needed. Many people will come with no coding knowledge and hate on the game.

And even with some knowledge, doing JavaScript from scratch is still something to learn.

I also can't seem to find how to edit my files using VScode or WebStorm.

And is it just me or is the basic documentation just plain bad and missing most stuff you'd need to start scripting?

Do I make a server hack itself with a script or do I hack one server from multiple others with a script? Whats the meta?

Do things with your own PC as much as you can because it's faster, upgrade it as much as you can (ram), and purchase servers that you can use aswell. You can have max 25 servers and all of them can run different code.

Get some servers that you can afford, send files to them that you want them to run, make them run the scripts you want. Profit!

ohmyyy thank you kindly for the multiple script editor feature :D really been needing that to more easily modify several scripts that work together :D and also just thanks for a really fun game

It seems to auto save my scripts now without me saving, and its really rename scripts now.

Your awesome you made me get back into javascript and guess what I hate javascript

Dude this game is amazing thanks a lot but pls bring true fullscreen support, bar at the top is annoying as hell

I haven't played yet but i've been following your comments and am really impressed.

Thanks for addressing the script saving issue!

ingame/in-announcement version is 1.1 but title is 1.2

Thank you for making this game!