Just purchased my first server questions.

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Hi all.
I just purchased my first server (Single Player game).
Should I now connect to this instead of the captured npc network?
Do I need to upload all my tools etc to the server?
Any basic tips on how to protect my server most welcome.
Cheers

[HAPY HAPY HAPY]

In SP, you don't really need to protect anything. Just don't get traced. Basically connect to your server and use it as a point of attack. You can use a long chain of servers to increase the trace time.

[88632148]

some really informative guides in the "guides" section, the new 0,7 guides should help you get started.

use your rented server as your proxy, never connect from main pc to attack target, every server you rent you will indeed have to reupload your tools or you can make a script and do it that way in the code editor in game if you choose to get into that. the 0.7 hacker's guide i think has a very good starting point so check that out!

edit* i had wrong guide suggested

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Originally posted by HAPY HAPY HAPY:

In SP, you don't really need to protect anything. Just don't get traced. Basically connect to your server and use it as a point of attack. You can use a long chain of servers to increase the trace time.

Originally posted by SinisteR-X-:

some really informative guides in the "guides" section, the new 0,7 guides should help you get started.

use your rented server as your proxy, never connect from main pc to attack target, every server you rent you will indeed have to reupload your tools or you can make a script and do it that way in the code editor in game if you choose to get into that. the 0.7 hacker's guide i think has a very good starting point so check that out!

edit* i had wrong guide suggested

Many thanks chaps.
The game sure has a steep learning curve after the tutorial and intro contact for someone new to codeing and hacking games.
But I learn something new every time I play, though it be learning from my failures :)

[ralfaltmann]

Originally posted by Professor Von-Wulfen :

The game sure has a steep learning curve after the tutorial and intro contact for someone new to codeing and hacking games.
But I learn something new every time I play, though it be learning from my failures :)

If you go for scripting, keep in mind that you can copy & paste between GH and your PC. I use Notepad++, which is in general a good text editor with many features. Two things which are very useful for GH:
1) there's an language syntax add-on for GH available, if I remember correctly (I don't use the add-on)
2) you can close NP++ even without saving the contents of the currently edited file. The contents will be there again when re-opening NP++

#1 is helpful if you want to write scripts without the in-game code editor, which has some minor bugs. And if you get caught (even in SP), it's a way to save your scripts, otherwise they're lost.
#2 is luxury :) The drawback is that if NP++ crashes, the unsaved contents are gone.

If you want to try out concepts of the scripting language like maps, etc. you can also visit the MiniScript homepage: https://miniscript.org/

There's also an online simulator. The GH script language is based on MS. You can't simulate GH specific things like computers, etc. But you can try out how maps, etc. work.

And a good source of details for the GH specific things for scripting is https://codedocs.ghtools.xyz/
The only issue here is that it might be not always up to date, some things might be missing and some things are simply not explained better than in-game :D

Regards

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Originally posted by ralfaltmann:

Originally posted by Professor Von-Wulfen :

The game sure has a steep learning curve after the tutorial and intro contact for someone new to codeing and hacking games.
But I learn something new every time I play, though it be learning from my failures :)

If you go for scripting, keep in mind that you can copy & paste between GH and your PC. I use Notepad++, which is in general a good text editor with many features. Two things which are very useful for GH:
1) there's an language syntax add-on for GH available, if I remember correctly (I don't use the add-on)
2) you can close NP++ even without saving the contents of the currently edited file. The contents will be there again when re-opening NP++

#1 is helpful if you want to write scripts without the in-game code editor, which has some minor bugs. And if you get caught (even in SP), it's a way to save your scripts, otherwise they're lost.
#2 is luxury :) The drawback is that if NP++ crashes, the unsaved contents are gone.

If you want to try out concepts of the scripting language like maps, etc. you can also visit the MiniScript homepage: https://miniscript.org/

There's also an online simulator. The GH script language is based on MS. You can't simulate GH specific things like computers, etc. But you can try out how maps, etc. work.

And a good source of details for the GH specific things for scripting is https://codedocs.ghtools.xyz/
The only issue here is that it might be not always up to date, some things might be missing and some things are simply not explained better than in-game :D

Regards

Many thanks, sir. Very much appreciated.