Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Originally posted by: oogabooga
I guess I'm getting in on this late. Kinda confused cause I haven't taken the time to read.
Focus on Attack or Defense first?
At first, focus solely on attack. If you spend every credit on attack, you can't lose anything so defense is moot. At least for the start, then migrate to a more balanced setup. Defense is more to protect your infected machines than your actual credits (again, protect credits by buying attack/defense).
Build up your virus as quickly as possible. Whenever possible, sell all your kbps to purchase virus. You can always attack someone ranked in the 800's & occasionally find someone who hasn't been playing or attacked in 3 or 4 days. The number of credits you get is a crap shoot, unless you're really really keeping careful track of everyone's rank & when they seem to be playing. Since when you sell your kbps back, you only get 75%, a decent rule of thumb is to multiply your current kbps by 9 to figure out its cash value. Once you get up to about 700,000 kbps, the multiplier goes up a bit.
Tip for all:
Then, it's time to bust out the windows calculator.
To calculate your net sell-off value, do this for each separate type of connection:
Let's say you have 9 512kbADSL connections. The current price is 7654 credits.
7654/512 = 14.94921875
Average this with 12 = 13.474
So, when you sell back that particular level, the avg sell price is 13.474 each. However, you only get 75% of that. So, multiply it by .75 = 10.1 per kbps
Now, you have nine 512kbps connections.
9*512*10.1 is very close to what you'll get back.
Simply do this for each type of connection & use the M+ button. When you're done, you'll know how much you'll get from the sale. The whole process might take 2 minutes, but it's better to know for certain before you try to spend 960,000 on a level 7 virus, only to come up 50,000 short. What do you do then? Wait and hope no one attacks you?! (Last night, I came up just a couple thousand short - I had counted on 40k from the tick, and was hit 3 times just before the tick, lost 2000 computers, and only got 30k at the tick. I forgot to factor that loss of income in.)
