M2H
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20-06-2006 21:38
| Updates and News
21/06/2009
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New software is now available up to a version level of 5.2. There are new NPCs and new riddles for you to crack in order to find the new software.
New hardware has been implemented;
Dual Direct Satellite Connection (NASA) = 1476.0 Mbit = 2 750 000 euros
Overclocked Darpel IV Quad-Core, Nitrogen Cooler = 5648.0 Mhz = 750 000 euros
You can now experience the super fast speed of NASA!!
It is now possible to upload your own forum avatars, you can do this from the "Options" link on your main screen.
New functions for NPCs are now available. You can now buy Domains, and Report DDoSers, from new NPCs in the riddle trail.
The Terminal has been created to give you a brief look on how it is going to be in SH2.
Can you find all the easter eggs with the Terminal??
21-02-2009
Today we've launched our new codebase, which unlocks a lot more possibilities. Due to this SH is practically in a beta ATM, we hope you'll not experience any issues with this new system. At the moment there are only limited layouts available, but we plan to enable you to customize the layout to your liking. Make sure to check out the new desktop layout!
Thanks go to Ape for contributing, and thanks to Toastie for his (ongoing) work.
Enjoy these changes, I hope we can introduce even more changes soon.
19-08-2008
We have fixed a few serious bugs:
-Ghost ips; fixed. (This also removed your stats from the highscores)
-Ghost logs have been fixed.
-Bank accounts with the account number '0' have been fixed.
We are still working on an improved version of SH. Currently we're creating/improving the basics of the game's coding structure and are not touching the game's gameplay yet. Once the structure is in place, the version we're working on will work exactly like the current version of SH but it will be far more reliable. Also the functionality we've previously shown on the "prototype" has improved a lot (There's no public demo atm). The prototypes functionality will be added for sure, but it is optional; you can keep playing SH like you do at the moment.
02-08-2008
The highscore updates have been improved, the highscore now properly updates itself every 30 minutes instead of clearing and recreating. This means there's no more highscore 'downtime'. This update process is also twice as fast as the previous method.
22-07-2008
We've moved SH to a new, faster server. This is one of the first noticeable measurements we're taking to reduce (and in the end stop) lag.
There were some problems transferring the database, and the DNS record. But everything should be running smoothly now.
19-07-2008
We have worked on fixing some causes of lag. There has been way too much lag lately and it's top priority to take some actions to reduce(stop!) any future lag.
We've also fixed buying group servers.
We will order a new server for SH soon, and will add some extra automatic maintenance (which you will not be able to notice: no downtimes because of this).
We hope to be able to tell you some more soon.
27-06-2008
All those who have applied to help out coding the game have been send a few questions, one or two additional coders will be selected soon based on these questions.
We expect to be able to show you some progress in a month (end July/begin August). We are looking forward to finally have several coders working on the game, and hope to get this game better than it ever was before!
22-06-2008
At first it looked like no one was interested in helping out SH on the extra coder position..but the email service was messed up, this has been fixed.
I've got quite a few applications, but want to ask those who send their application before 17-06 and have not gotten any confirmation to resend their application. I will be replying all applications tonight or tomorrow (Sunday-night, or Monday).
15-06-2008
Sometimes the game isn't as fast as we like. We will be upgrading the SH server within a few weeks/months to increase performance. When we'll upgrade will depend on when we've got some new updates ready for the game.
We are still looking for a trustworthy coder to help us improve SH. While we are not looking for an expert per se, we do have a few requirements:
You know HTML & CSS
You should already be pretty familiar with mysql & php.
Age: 16 and older only.
(AJAX knowledge is a pre; javascript-php in our case)
Please only email us if you meet the above 'requirements'. You can send an email to:
support|A|slavehack. com
07-06-2008
While we are preparing to improve slavehack a lot, we are not considering to take the old cheaters over to the future of SH. Over 800 players that have been detected ever been using a bot have or will be punished.
850 players have had a 10% reduction of their bank balance, and can not use the game for at least 2-7 days. Consider this as a simple warning...
We do punishments to keep the game fun for YOU, not because we feel like punishing. We hope that the honest players will now be able to enjoy the game more, knowing that cheaters do not go unpunished.
Edit:
A bit of proof has been added for those who get (temporary) blocked when logging in.
Also, do not fear of being banned for the refresh warning, if you get this warning without using a bot you won't be punished nor banned.
11-06-2008:
There seems to be a lot of confusion: Some people claim to have lost over 20% cash, but we have only removed 10% of the bank accounts once, any further automatic bans do not remove any cash. The cash removal was a one time event. Unless we decide to add to bans later.
Also some people claim to be banned for nothing, we are very sure that the current bans are accurate, and applied only to those who are log editing bots or scripts. But we will look into it.
05-06-2008
Dear Slavehackers,
We've got some news about the possible future of slavehack.
Now we're reorganizing the whole team we're also making plans to re-code the whole game.
We are considering to move the whole game interface to a real desktop interface, a basic example can be found here:
http://www.slavehack.com/prototype
This prototype lacks proper art, but the interface code is roughly there.
The main goal of this interface is to give you a more realistic hack experience. We will also aim for easier access for new players, and at the same time provide a terminal for more experienced players.
We'll have to investigate the terminal option though, as we need to create an extensive command list, and it should also not be abusable by bots.
Feel free to discuss this prototype on the forums. We're curious about your thoughts, and also about the performance of this interface. While we will not always reply, we'll read most of the topics. As always: please understand that we can't add most of all the good ideas (right away).
Please note that at this stage everything are just rough plans. Please be patience, we cannot guarantee changes very soon. But we're working on it, and we'll keep you updated.
Other important news:
We are all experiencing a very slow website. It looks like a DDoS. This is not related to our server, updates/code etc. We'll have to be patient.
The Slavehack team
Small bugfix: When creating a folder it kept reporting a folder name was too short, this has been fixed.
An in-game tutorial has been added for new players. This tutorial text will guide them untill they've reached a few goals like getting an wwl 0.5.
You can now exchange your support points for in-game euros, do note that we might change the exchange rates and rewards.
Folders have been added for the (external) harddisks, you can now manage your software a lot better. There are a few limitations: Max. 10 folders per harddisk, and they cannot be hidden or encrypted.
The forum usernames now link to the player highscore page.
A new layout has been added, give it a try !
The highscore page now allows you to find a specific players stats. This will now easily show you the ranks in reputation and the amount of slaves.
The timer has been changed to display a more friendly countdown. It will now display the amount of hours, minutes and seconds for each process.
The computer crack time (and attempts) formula has been changed. It will now probably cost you less time to crack. We should now all check if this new formula is alright, or if we need another small adjustment.
Bank account cracking has not been changed.
The support page has been expanded, please have a look. Tomorrow this will be expanded even more, I'll then add some more information. Untill then you can already start earning Support Points...
The timer has been improved and updated, the public test went well, so there were no more reason to wait any longer. It only needs an HH:MM:SS format now..
4.5->5.0 has been released. 6.15X.XXX.XXX will get you to this new trail.
A http://www.slavehack.com/tickets.php>ticket system has been added, this is our new support system. This should finally fix our lack of support we used to have. However please note that we cannot garuantee quick responses yet, as we will need to reorganise the moderator team. If you all please report all bugs, we should be able to get them out of here in no time.
An support page has been added in-game, this page will be expanded with more features very soon. For now it just contains the donation information which used to be on the Options page.
An extra layout has been added, it's an very basic white layout very much like the 'light black' layout we already had. This layout could save you troubles at work/school  . Use the options page to switch in-game layout.
Last but not least: SH has speed up a lot because of yesterdays maintenance.
Server maintaince: Because of some errors we had to do some extensive maintaince.
Everything is working well again, however we couldn't fully recover the database: We had to use backups to compensate this.
All bank accounts, computer details, software and the forum is reset to yesterdays versions, the rest of the game should be fine.
We're sorry for the trouble.
2 bugfixes:
-Sometimes bank account passwords were not reset, fixed.
-When a bot check popped up during a log edit, it lost all the changes you applied. It will now save your edited logfile after entering the bot number correctly.
Yikes, the groups reputation calculation was mixed up ! This has been fixed. Check the group highscores, you might have lost/gained a few ranks .
Edited by staff member [BornLiveDie] on 22-06-2009 00:05 |
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 M2H
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24-09-2007 22:46
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- The highscore page has been updates; A group highscore has been added. All groups with 3 members or more are listed.
- The winners of the poll organised by haveahackedday have been rewared with some SH euros, congratulations !
- SH has been offline for approximately 24 hours, it couldn't be solved quicker as I was waiting for the server leasers support. Sorry for this downtime, thank you for your patience.
- Some problems with the updating of the highscores had been reported, it has been fixed.
- The analyser time has been reduced.
- A few bugfixes:
+”Bug when deleting files.” – fixed, you can properly cancel a deletion now: It kills the processs.
+”First login never works” – fixed, the login url does not matter anymore.
+” not being able to disable ddos bots”, You can now disable DDoS slaves.
- There won't be any big updates the next 6 days as I am very busy with tests. In the meanwhile the poll is still running untill I use the poll results for updates.
- A poll has been added, you will be able to answer it after you login. This poll includes the GS subject, in the meanwhile they are NOT DDoSable.
- The log page used to show a read-only version of the log after updating. It is now directly editable after an update.
- Bugfix: Reading emails from usernames with a space in them.
- Bugfix:Slaved Group Servers will be removed from slaves list after an IP reset like any other pc.
- Small layout improvements to a few of the frontpage pages.
- Email has been changed: It's now more IP-friendly to use email, this helps making emailing more usefull, Read the email manual to read about the changes. One big change is that you can now enter a players name to email him/her.
- Bugfix: Deleting files freezed at 0 seconds left, fixed.
- Bugfix: Bank transfers processes now work properly via the process page
- Bugfix: All processes will now speed up instantly when another process has finished.
- Moderator status has been added to the forum mods, its displayed below their usernames on the forum, edits will also include a mods username.
- AV 4.5 is randomly spawning at a few random npc's every half hour..however it will never be respawning as any other software. This is just for fun, untill further riddle trails will be released.
- 4.0 -> 4.5 Has been launched and starts at a 4.0 server "13X.XX.XXX.XX4", enjoy. Report any trail problems at the forum
- A new riddle trail will be added today. 4.0-4.5 will be added between 17:00 and 19:00 SH time today. This "SH" time is GMT+1 and is displayed above every page (For example: "Computer time format: 1173264451 Standard time format: 07-03-2007 11:47").
Prepare yourselves, make sure to protect your computer or group server with the latest firewalls quick .
- The applications I've recieved last week have all been replied. I thank everyone for his/her application, I got lots of nice applications !
I've selected 7 people to start with. They should be able to cover all of the tasks SH needs work at.
- Group servers have been added, this allows players to form groups (clans, guild whatever you want to call it) and have fun together.
You will have to buy a group server at [152.11.194.106], and this is quite expensive (!).
The group server can be managed by the group members, the group leader has got a few extra options though.
Since anyone who's able to login to the group server is counted as member this also means that groups can attack eachother...
Have fun,
I've done my best to make sure this update contains (nearly) no bugs, but if bugs occur please post them at the feedback->bugs topic.
- Still working on the next update..Expected it to be done earlier, but I've expanded the update, and want to do more bug testing.
- A few more warez + a new warez system have been added (4 total warez atm). The prices of warez vary and depend on how much of the warez are currently in game.In
short: Rare warez sell better.We'll see if we all like the system and what can be improved, then a lot new warez will be added. There seems to be a guy on the slavehack internet which keeps a list of up2date warez prices...
- Please be patient for the next few updates, had to catch up on some other projects and
will now concentrate on SlaveHack again. I am working on the next SH updates.
- No more pressing 'continue' for all tasks: It will automaticly continue
- You can now change your account password at the options page.
- A poll has been added. A link to it will be shown after you've logged in whenever a
new poll is available.
- Inactive players will now automaticly reset their IP after 4 weeks: This might look
like ruining all the fun, but in the end it keeps the game a lot more fair. Other players
can not gain an unfair advantage on you by having 'invisible slaves'.
- DDoSsing has been fixed, this did not work properly in the past. It will now do
serious damage. Also: Only you can only prepare one DDoS at the same time.
- NPC server connection speeds have increased
- The 3.6 -> 4.0 riddle trail has been added boosting the total amount of NPC servers to
140. It starts at the last 3.5 server.
- Thanks to evoke for scanning the
PC gamers UK
SH review 
- It's pretty busy these days and you won't see a lot of updates, I am however
working on ideas which will add new features to the game so It's not just the riddle
trail, and you won't be on you're own anymore.
The e-mail is being reviewed too.
I really want to get updating SH as soon as I'm done with my university tests (only 4
weeks each year).
- A little more patience is required for the next updates, has been a busy weekend.
- SlaveHack has been revieuwed in the PC gamers UK magazine
 ? Haven't seen a copy
yet, but it's pretty cool .
- A monospaced font has been added for the textareas, this enables some asci art in for
example the logs, the main reason also were the riddles, for example the 'lines' riddle.
- DDoSing has been made easier, less DDoS slaves are now required to do more
damage.
- A process page has been added. This page allows you to manage multiple processes at
once (also known as multi tasking/ queue system). You can download/upload/install stuff at
the same time. I'm glad this is done  .
- Forum pages have been added
- 2 new External harddisks have been added and a few midclass cpu's.
- 3.0 -> 3.5 has been added, and begins at "247.1XX.1XX.168/Reverse.txt".
- A few extra donator options have been added (all current donators automaticly unlock
these too if their donation 'level' allows it)
- Slaves are not automaticly deleted after 14 days anymore.
- The menu buttons have been changed because the old buttons were sometimes badly
readible and made the page too long.
9-9
- Donators can now run an 'website' at their computer.
- A lot of multi accounts have been deleted including millions of euros.
- A far more better multi detection system has been added, we almost had no multi
detection before.
- You can now never slave any in-game user which has ever shared an real-IP with you. So
you cannot earn cash on your "brothers/sisters" or multi accounts anymore.
- Various bugs have been fixed.
 Added an options page, at the oment this page only
contains donation options but more options will be added, read the OPTIONS page for more
details.
- DDoS launch times have been halved.
- Added an email service in-game: You will be able to email other players using anemail
account at a mailserver and aslave of yours with a spam relay virus installed.
Details at the Forum -> Manuals -> Email
- Uploads are now ordered by software type and version.
- Some pieces of hardware have been added/adjusted.
- An instant IP reset (15 sec) can now also be bought even if you have a free(5minutes)
reset available.
- Added +- 25 servers 2.0 -> 2.5 with a few funny images to share
(beginsat255.XX.XXX.XX)
- Added +- 25 servers 2.5 -> 3.0 this could make u go crazy without a goodsortingsystem.
- Made it possible to remove slaves from the slaves page
- .enc and .dec filetypes added. The .enc files can encrypt files making
themunusableunless decrypted. However: those files can be transferred/deleted/hidden.
- A random event has been added. Encrypted textfiles with bank acccount details
ofNPCbank accounts can now spawn at NPC servers, however this is very random and
youshouldn'tsearch for them...You'll only find them if you're lucky.
- You can now also 'bribe' your IP reset, it is much quicker; If you buy an IPresetit
will only cost you 15 seconds to change your IP adress instead of 5 minutes.
(Thepricebegins at 10 000 euros, and it's max 250 000 euros)
- The internet has got a better layout
- Bank account deletion is now allowed even if it contains money (However, it willaskan
confirmation).
- I wish i could have added the slave delete button and the 2.0 -> 3.0 software
bynow,but It seems like I haven't got much time during my vacation. It'll all be
donewhenI've settled down from my vacations. I do not leave SH, like the
simplepeople say.
- Added a new piece of hardware: External harddrives.
You will be able to safely backup a few files. They can never be harmed.
Updates 2.000702
-Added the botcheck, it will randomly occur between 10 and 40 minutes of gameplay.Youwill
need to insert a 4 digit number to validate ur not a cheater.
-The reputation formula has been changed; It is less affected by the time you
havespentcracking, and more affected by the amount of spam sent/warez sold & cash spent.
Theoldformula was being abused, and this formula is way accurate anyway..Cracking
doesn'tgetyou anywhere yet, making some money does.
-A 'collect all' option has been added to the slaves page.
Updates 2.000629
-Deleted about 50 accounts using bots/macros and multi accounts.This game is not
madeforthese people.
-Added a harddisk format link at the software page to compelety erase everything
onyourharddrive. Only available for the pc owner.
-A new forum layout has been added thanks to m4v3r.
-Untill today spam versions did not make u any extra money.
From now on they DO
Better .vspam versions are capable of sending a bit more e-mails and make more money.
Updates 2.000628
-16 Servers 1.5 - 2.0 have been added. Begin at the new website
The game now also supports .img files, but i have only added 1 atm.
-I have done a lot of updates which are not listed here. Before i get back
toaddingeverything i do to this post I first gotta make sure SH is balanced and does
notmake alot of new players stop because they constantly get hacked/robbed.
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Have done a lot of updates today..spent all my day working on SH because of
thissuddenplayer boost, i forgot half of my work but the most important updates were:
Read only access to the freeware server
Changed some performance related stuff.
-Newbie protection is added, newbies cannot be hacked their first 30 minutes.
-Added the homepage button, u can set ur own internet homepage now. (For people
whoarelogged in atm 20-06 21:34 please relogin to enable this feature)
-Added 4th bank, and software goes up to 1.5 now.
Edited on 24-09-2007 22:46
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