Please chill on the hacking, it's a ton of work to play it out and I haven't had much time to do it properly. There may be commlinks worth hacking, but hacking all your teammates, the plane, Ms. Johnson, etc, is going overboard. If you're looking for a specific piece of information I might allow it, but you need to focus in on things.
I am not (yet) going to hack all and everything around.
The prepwork and legwork are important and to this end I am taking a look around.
The legwork for my part include datasearches.
The prepwork include to take a look at things, so we won't be surprised later on. I am looking for very specific things - like the contact information of the real Mr. Johnson, or the information about the artifact/opposition that is stored on the Jane commlink. I am looking at possible holes in our matrix security becuase if we are to expect opposition, they probably include a hacker as well, which means, all the info that I just shared about the auction and all the future one that we gather is available for hacking, not to mention possibility of tracking our moves, spying on us through our own cameras and microphones. and that include the commlink of Jane, Iceblade, Lost or Hyena.
as for the plane, that's a piece of information about Jane - who is renting her a plane - subsidiary of which major corp ... you see I am trying to find out who am I really working for
as for the online kiosk - I am not going to steal from teammates by spoofing it with their access_id and charging them double, I'd much more prefer to have the copy protection cracked and shared among the team from a single copy Ice already bought. That way it leaves less traces. I'd consider hacking in only if the security seems lacking.
I can focus, but I don't think we are hurrying anywhere it will take us half a year or better RL anyway and I am merely taking a look around. Detecting nodes and observing matrix attributes is as much using a sense for me as eyes for everyone else or astral perception for Ice or Lost. I'll be asking A LOT of such question like: What nodes do I see? Are they hidden/passive/active? What is their firewall/system rating? If you don't have them prepared, it's PbP and you got all the time in the world before your next post.
finally however if you prefer to press on with the action I can "don't-care", shut up and catch up on sleep from Jerry's last all-nighter. It's your game anyway.
