You can write scripts to automate your NPC farming, or scripts that seem like they are part of the game’s in-built stories, but eventually trick the user into running other, more malicious scripts, which you have also written to rob all their hard-earned cyber-dollar. But if you can stomach learning a bit of JavaScript (or already know some) the game opens up like a horrible venus flytrap. Farming NPCs for cash is as essential here as in any other MMO. You run little computer scripts, many of them written by other players, and hope that none of these tiny programs will steal all your money or compromise your location.įor the right kind of person, it’s less a timesink and more a supermassive black hole. It’s a game about not knowing who to trust, but trusting some people anyway. So I’ll take the chance to praise it more generally.

īrendan: I’ve already told a couple of stories about my time in this dense multiplayer hacking sim. The year's best mmo: reality-confounding hackmud. The RPS Advent Calendar highlights our favourite games of the year, daily, and behind today’s door is. We like to make mischief around these parts, and if we can do so in the confines of a multiplayer world where we get to play as a rogue AI, all the better.

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