[alexjeffrey]

looks like fun! I've been holding out for a modern retake on the uplink series or some other fun hacking game.

one UI thing that came up for me - going through the university pages, it wasn't totally clear that the green buttons were actually a "next" button. After I read the software page, I saw the green button said "what if I need help?", thought it was a help button and decided that since I couldn't find a next button, I was free to start playing. Confusion set in when the homepage sent me back to the tutorial.

[edit] in terms of a fix, a simple » or other arrow-icon might fix this

also a few little suggestions that I hope you'll like (as I like this type of game, a lot!):

- Maybe represent the user's balance purely in BTC? the idea of paying hackers in bank transfers seems a little insecure for a security game :)

- You might run into race conditions when editing logs, depending on how it's implemented on the backend - maybe just a checkbox next to each line to quickly delete lines relevant to you? this might ruin some of the fun possibilities re. dropping other people's IPs into logs though.

[napsterbr]

A temporary log is stored on each log edit, so your IP could shown up again even if you deleted it, in the case of race condition.

There's no way to use some sort of lock, though. I accepted it as part of the game.

As iamtew mentioned, having a textarea is nice because you can use your "creativity". ASCII art, "framing" people, etc.

Anyway, really wasn't expecting so many users. Over 800 online now.

[iamtew]

As long as it can be implemented well I think it's good to have full text edit power on the log file, I can just change my own IP to someone else ;)

[alexjeffrey]

I agree, but the race condition kind of kills it - 2 people editing the same file at the same time.