User:Badger-nz/Slavehack

Slavehack is an online massively multiplayer hacking game, somewhat remniscent of other single player games of the same type such as Uplink, cypher, or Street Hacker. It allows users to play the role of a hacker and hack other players and/or NPC (Non-Player Character) servers in a quest for better software, hardware, and money.

About Slavehack
SH is a free game, you never need to show your credit card. You start SH with a very old (133Mhz, 1gb harddisk) computer, you will need to gather some hack software quick or else you won't be able to defend yourself in this virtual world ! You can choose to live very defensive with as goal to collect good firewalls and live peacefully, or choose to collect powerful firewall-bypassers and password crackers to hack computers and make them your slaves.

The Game
The game is based around "hacking other players or NPC servers. Each player and server is allocated a unique IP address which can be reset at increasing intervals, starting at 12 hours, to avoid abuse. To hack, players simply type in the IP they wish to hack, and launch their password cracker. Players can also find firewalls, which make cracking impossible unless the hacker has a waterwall of the same level or higher, at which case it slows down the attempt. Once a player has hacked the server, he has a variety of options, ranging from reading the server logs in the hopes of finding other players' IPs or bank account details, turning the player into their slave, or simply causing as much damage as possible by deleting/hiding the player's tools. It should be noted that this does not involve actually hacking other players' computers, but instead "hacking" a representation of them, entirely within the SlaveHack website. In one of the first servers the player gains acess to, a text file can be found, that countains a riddle leading to another server, in the semblance of a treasure hunt. Each server contains progressively more advanced software and/or more riddles, making these servers nearly crucial to advancing in the game. Although gaining tools from other players is possible, it will take much longer and reprisals are likely.

SlaveHack Money
Money in SlaveHack is mainly obtained through the use of slaves: other players or NPC servers you have contaminated with a virus to spread spam or shareware, thus earning money. To "infect" a server, a player must hack it, upload the virus and run it. From then on, the player will have acess to the slave from his "Slaves" toolbar, and will be able to assign it jobs or collect revenue from it. Money in SlaveHack can also be obtained by getting a persons bank account details from their log, cracking their bank account and transfering their money to your bank account.

History
Slavehack was released on June 06, 2006, and continued growing slowly until June 21, 2006, when it was posted on Digg. After posting, it quickly appeared on the front page of Digg, which caused a radical user influx. The game quickly jumped from 200 or so users to a staggering 9000 within the end of the month, and continues to grow at an astounding rate. Although many problems were caused because of the large number of new users, these issues were quickly repaired by the administrator, M2H. Updates are still being rolled out to deal with problems and to add new features.

Slaves
These hacked computers (slaves) can be used to earn money or gain more power: - Use them to send spam (Earn a few euros for every million emails). - Sell warez (Illegally download one of the latest games and sell it online - Virtually, of course). - DDoS and destroy an enemy computer. - ...and more!

Slaves will do your bidding.

Logs
Logs are a crucial element in SlaveHack. Each action made by or on a server is stored in its log, and hence this is often a rich source of information. It stores everything from IPs, to bank account details, to Slave jobs, and is often the first thing a hacker will look at in a hacked system, or where a cracked system administrator will look to find details of an attack. Due to this, deleting or at least editing both your logs, and the logs of systems you have hacked, is utterly crucial in staying invisible in SlaveHack.

Goal of the game
Gather the best software and hardware around and hack as much player computers and NPC servers as you can to earn a spot in the highscores.