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Gryffindor Update

^{August 11th, 2018}

A short list of bug fixes and small updates to kick off this new update...

Features

• Voice To Chat - You can now use voice to chat functionality. If you see a Microphone icon in the header bar of the game, this can be clicked to turn on your Microphone. Things you say will then be sent to the game chat.

• Jurrasic Park - Added an Easter Egg to the Terminal that can earn you a smooth 100,000 reputation points.

• Superman 3 - Added an Easter Egg to the Terminal that can earn you a whopping 1,000,000 reputation points.

• Permanent Triple XP, still - We have from time to time ran special Triple XP days or sometimes for a week straight. After some evaluating, it actually seems like this should be on all the time, so it is now! Missions will earn you triple the benefit all the time now, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

• Permanent 1/2 off Donation Rewards - Donation rewards will remain half off for some time, but still take advantage while it is available.

Fixes

• Ransomware - Fixed an issue which would cause old ransomware files to not ransom the victims terminal
• AntiVirus - Adjusted the size of the 0.1 Antivirus to be considerably smaller
• Processes - Fixed an issue where the Network Processes would not be animated when toggling the Animated Processes setting
• New Players - Resolved an issue with new player signups that would cause the tutorial and new privacy policy to pop up at the same time
• New Players - Resolved an issue with new player signups that would cause the music player to read as "loading" until next game refresh

Adjustments

• Windows - Clarified "Auto Open WIndows" to note that that window must be pinned
• Chat - Chat bans are now announced in the chat the next time someone speaks
• New Players - Basic Verification activated on VPN signups
• DDoS - Player DDoS has been re-enabled and slightly nerfed

Well that is all I have for now!

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Updates

^{March 18th, 2018}

There are a gaggle of new updates. That's right, an entire gaggle. Check out what we got along with a bunch of enhancements / fixes / features...

Features

• Tracer - The Tracer is a new Hardware item. It can be activated for 20 minutes before it disables itself. While active, it uses CPU and Network to run and scan for people connecting to you. It automatically adds attackers to your slaves list. It costs $100,000 to buy (1 time purchase), but free to enable and disable it at anytime. It does not always catch the attacker and it is tailored towards lower players in an interesting and secret way to benefit them more.

                

• rmlist - This new Terminal command allows you to effectively delete an entire type of file from your local File Explorer. This is great if you wanted to get rid of all the books you have collected over time for example. Here is a snippet on it's usage: rmlist book

                

• Software Pack - A new Software Pack has been added to the game, replacing all of the core Softwares currently available. This fun pack has awesome new icons with some strange names as well. Dubbed the "Alien Pack", you can find them scattered around NPC's as well as the special Firewall version can be found on the secret NPC, Area 52! Go try and find them all.

                

• Permanent Triple XP - We have from time to time ran special Triple XP days or sometimes for a week straight. After some evaluating, it actually seems like this should be on all the time, so it is now! Missions will earn you triple the benefit all the time now, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.

• where - Where is a new Terminal command aimed at helping out the newer players. This command works by typing "where" (or any of it's existing aliases) and then a few characters of an NPC name, like "pent" for "The Pentagon". When ran, this command will return the IP Address of that NPC. Pretty neat ey? This definitely prevents people from asking for an IP Address in chat only to get compromised by the other people watching that chat and knowing the person will go to it.

                

• Mission Achievements - Previously there were only around 9 achievements that could be earned doing Missions. There are now 44 that you can earn for doing Missions. This was with the help of the player BornLiveDie who came up with the names, mission counts and reputation earnings. Say thanks to him if you see him around!

• Whispers - You can now secretly share information with other players in the global game chat. This is called a "whisper". The syntax is pretty easy. Simply begin a chat message with /w and click the persons name. Messages whispered show up in chat in an orange color. Example: /w @BornLiveDie this is my secret message to you

                

                

• Notifications Panel - A full notifications panel has been created, splitting your game notifications into 9 sections: Official Slavehack 2 Messages, News, Achievements, Bank Account Cracking, Bitcoin Packets, Mission Messages, DDoS Hits, Level Ups and User Notifications. Click the Envelope icon to the right side of the date/time to toggle open and manage notifications. Notifications can also be deleted from any section but the first 2 by clicking the little "x" to the top right of a notification. -- With the "News" section of the new panel, this contains news blurbs about hacks targetings NPC's. There is a 1 - 2 percent chance your hack will make it on the News within any given time period.

                

Additions

• Forum - Slavehack link added to return back to game
• Forum - Blog link added to Forum
• Forum - "Create" option added for mobile users
• Blog - Backlinked Forum and Slavehack 2
• Legacy - Players who own donation packs in Slavehack 2 are given all Donations Rewards in Slavehack Legacy
• SH2 - Added "Blog" to Taskbar menu items
• SH2 - Added menu item to open Slavehack Legacy
• SH2 - New forum posts should mention the forum post in the Chat
• SH2 - Smooth scrolling added to file explorer and chat
• SH2 - Chat should now auto scroll to the bottom when opening

Fixes

• Legacy - Resolved several old potential sql injection opportunities in SH1 code
• SH2 - Game background should now "stick" when changed regardless of browser cache
• SH2 - Potentially resolved an issue that would periodically cause logs to stop updating after an extended period of playtime. Possibly caused by slight internet outages from players, laggy internet or request timeouts
• SH2 - Alert messages (New Slave Added, etc), should now appear 15 pixels below the action point, to prevent annoyance from completing processes in a quick manner
• SH2 - Notepad will now remember it's size and not auto adjust
• SH2 - Processes now do not overflow to underneath the game

Adjustments

• Legacy - System messages no longer display at all for Slavehack Legacy, such as the gamble bot
• SH2 - Retired the menu option "Tutorials" until further realized in to actual feature
• SH2 - Staff can now change your factions for you. Hit up any staff member if you want to adjust between Black Hat, White Hat and Grey Hat
• SH2 - Cloud virus has been altered from 1/2 CPU to 1/10 CPU
• SH2 - Using the Cloud Virus on other players now gives no benefit
• SH2 - Game Activity status "Hold My Beer" changed to "lp0 On Fire". Related to an old comical unix error reported by old printers
• SH2 - Sharing memes, videos, drag and drops into game chat share that media to the games discord servers

Staff List

• Jesse - Developer
• Reyjr - Developer
• BornLiveDie - Admin
• MrBurnzz - Staff
• Bobokev - Staff
• Cryptek - Moderator
• Stvorms - Moderator

Well that is all I got for this one!

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Slavehack Legacy Released

^{March 11th, 2018}

Slavehack Legacy was released on March 4th, 2018. How have things been going so far and what sort of feedback did we get?...

    The Slavehack Legacy release went off without a hitch! We immediately saw a nice influx of players open up Legacy and simply fall back in to those old memories of playing this 12 year old game! So, how is it going after the first week? Let's check out the leaderboard on Slavehack Legacy and see who is on top to start:

                Slavehack Legacy Leaderboard

    

    The user bobokev really started off well and took an early lead. He has been battling against the user BornLiveDie for the top spot on the Slavehack Legacy leaderboard.

    Reception has been pretty well for players coming from Slavehack 1, however the pace is a tad bit slower for players who have never played Slavehack 1 before, so we noticed a trend where Slavehack 2 players who never played Slavehack 1 try Slavehack Legacy for only a short bit of time before reverting back to Slavehack 2. This was to be expected however.

    Slavehack 2 donation rewards carried over to Slavehack Legacy as well allowing players to unlock some nice features in Slavehack Legacy. Take a look at these below:

• Extra status: Crowned at the highscores ()
• Forum status ()
• You are able to store 50 emails instead of 25 (on your own computer)
• Be able to add a label to slaves at the slaves page.
• Forum signature
• Forum signature with images
• You are able to store 75 emails instead of 25 (on your own computer)
• Be able to add text which is displayed when people connect to your IP. (run a 'textbased website' on your system)

    Overall, Slavehack Legacy seems to run faster than Slavehack 1 which provides players with a nice baseline to succeed in the game at a much faster rate. We also added a few easter eggs and achievements in to the game to allow a small bit of fun for players making the switch over to Slavehack Legacy.

    Slavehack Legacy can be accessed in-game in 2 different ways. The first way is to click and then select the icon , this opens the full Slavehack Legacy game in the current browser tab. The second way allows you to access Slavehack Legacy from a window inside Slavehack 2. To do this, find your way to the Slavehack NPC and find the software named Slavehack Legacy and download it. You can then run the software from your File Explorer by clicking and then finding and clicking the file name. You can always just click this direct link as well to open up the Legacy edition: Slavehack Legacy

    Have you played Slavehack Legacy yet? Let us know what you like or hate about it down in the comments.

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Triple XP Week

^{February 25th, 2018}

We are celebrating the release of Slavehack Legacy coming on March 4th. Check out the fun happening this week...

    Starting ... well right now, all players can earn Triple Reputation points normally earned for completing missions! Saddle up the 12 pack of RC Cola® and dozen bags of Funyuns® because the time to pretend like you are James Bond is right now!

    Also! You can now perform DDoS Attacks 3 times quicker this week as well! Keep them IP Resets handy this week as those clever attackers are going to be looking for a sweet target.

    Come join in the action @ Slavehack 2

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Updates

^{February 23rd, 2018}

We have 5 new really great features for Slavehack 2, along with some feature improvements and bug fixes! Take a look...

Features

• Forge Window - Forge gets a well deserved makeover making it more compact, easier and faster to use. Upgrading software will opportunistically use Legendary C-Mods if the software item has a sub level of .0 or .1, regular C-Mods if the sub level is .2 - .8 and finally will of course use a Compiler when the software sub level is at .9. You can also now Downgrade your software which does not cost anything.

                

• New Malware - Cloud malware has been created. When this malware is uploaded to a victim, it allows you to use a portion of the targets CPU resources as your own. This allows for much faster actions. Cloud malware also slows down the victim as well.

            

• Daily Rewards - Every 24 hours you are now eligible to receive a daily reward for simply playing the game! A daily reward can consist of up to (maximum benefit): 4 Diamond Loot Crates or 80 CMods or 80 Compilers or 80 BTC or 20,000 rep or $50,000. Be sure to check in at least once a day to gain your rewards!

• Convert - A new terminal command let's you convert C-Mods in to Legendary C-Mods which definitely will decrease the time it takes to upgrade your software. This conversion rate is set to 10:1 at the moment. Run "convert" in the terminal for usage.

• Reward- A new Donation Reward option has been created to allow you to Donate to the game in order to receive a courtesy Triple Capacity on Legendary C-Mods. You can find this new item from: Rewards -> Specials.

                

Changes

• My Computer has been updated in the Process Stats section to reflect the numbers as "Rep" instead of "Seconds"
• Under certain circumstances it was possible to complete an Antivirus scan faster than intended. This was fixed
• Once the Tutorial is completed, it is now saved to the game regardless of device
• Downgrading in the new forge is now free
• Mining max benefit doubled to $400,000
• Bank cracking process timer reduced in half
• Software level limits temporarily lifted when forging only
• Click and drag into chat no longer notifies users
• [Legacy]: Resolved old bug that existed in old code that would not allow certain NPCs to be cracked, resulting in a "erroraa report this bug"
• [Legacy]: Fixed old misspellings
• Restyled the Blog to match the Forum style

That's it!

I certainly hope you like the new features so far and if you have any suggestions then feel free to leave it in the comment section below by clicking "Add Comment?".

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Pro-Tips

^{February 23rd, 2018}

Hey there everyone. Let's take a look at a few Pro-Tips from our friends in the eXcision clan...

    When you play Slavehack 2 long enough, you certainly pick up a set of traits and shortcuts. You also see updates as they become live, so there may be some things you are not aware of that you can do. These are called "Pro-Tips". Let's take a look at some of these Pro-Tips brought to you by the eXcision clan.

Pro-Tips

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Alternate Malware Creator Levels:

    By default, the Malware Creator will create Malware and Viruses as level 1.0. It is actually possible to specify any level less than or equal to the level of the Malware Creator. This is great when your target has a low amount of disk space or maybe you want a shorter upload time. Check the terminal command "make" to see help on using this command more efficiently.

Optimizing Mining

    It is definitely easy to just upload a miner virus and wait for that sweet collection time however, you can actually reduce collection time and optimize your maximum benefits. The first thing is that the calculation on mining payouts is dependent upon the amount of CPU that a target has. Secondly, the maximum benefit is determined by the other mining viruses on the target. Let's see how this works below:

• If there are no other mining viruses on the target, then you can earn 100% of the targets mining power.
• If there are 2 mining viruses then you and the other player will split the resources 50/50 and you will only gain 50% of the targets mining power.
• If there are more than 2 mining viruses then the calculation gets a little different.
• If you have the mining virus with the highest level on the target, then you actually can earn 50% benefit from the target, while the remaining 2 mining viruses split the other 50% between themselves regardless of their level. So, making sure you have the highest level mining virus on a target (or the only one) will ensure that you receive more benefits than other players and will help maximize your income.

Notepad:

    The game features a built-in Notepad which can be found from the Menu. The reason why eXcision recommends using the Notepad over in-game text files is simply because an attacker can not read your Notepad. As an added benefit; The Notepad will automatically save what you type in to it.

Prestige Benefits:

    As you progress in the game will earn Prestige Benefits which make the game a little more easier for you. Here is a lok at the some of the benefits as you prestige that either increase or decrease depending on the progression ability:

• Malware Creation Time [decrease]
• Bank Cracking Change [Increase]
• Whois Cost [decrease]
• Backup and Restore Time [decrease]
• Paid IP Reset Cost [decrease]

    Always keep these in mind as you prestige, since noticing something like a decreased Whois Cost is a massive benefit to pay attention to.

Those are definitely a great set of Pro-Tips by the eXcision clan and Stvorms so be sure to drop him a line in the game chat next time you see him. Do you have a Pro-Tip that you think we should add? Let us know in the comments below.

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Game Statistics

^{February 23rd, 2018}

Certainly 2017-2018 has been a long and wild ride, let's take a look at some game statistics...

    When we first decided to release Slavehack 2 we really did not expect as much of a player base as we got. I have to say, that some of you should probably take breaks from time to time! Let's gander at some numbers we happened to gather from the games database and other various long boring log files we formatted to be less boring!

Some Player and Game stats

1. Playtime: 177,949,325 seconds. For those of you without a calculator this means that players combined have played over 49,000 hours which is equivalent to 5.6 years of game time! Go outside and play some sports this weekend instead!
2. Reputation: 373,851,470 reputation points. Our players are certainly not shy of getting out there and hacking some high value targets! This value is increasing constantly as well and we love to see that.
3. Missions: 183,941 missions. Move over James Bond, I think you may have a little bit of competition now!
4. Hard Drive Space: 992,042.05 gigabytes. That is equivalent to 992,042,050 megabytes of total Hard Drive space. Just short of a Petabyte by 0.01! I sure hope it's at least an SSD for speeds sake!
5. Logins: 133,954. We certainly do not shy away from that sort of traffic. The more the merrier!
6. Software: 472,329. There is definitely alot to grab when it comes to new Software. From upgrades, to memes, to classified files, to viruses we certainly are not lacking on any Software in the game.
7. Queries: The game processes just around 1,200 database queries per second for our player base at any given time. This is equal to about 3,110,400,000 database queries a month. Last month database traffic consumed 1.1 TiB total bandwidth. This number certainly grows as we grow but it is definitely a good thing to see that players are enjoying the game so much.

It has certainly been a busy time over these last few months as you can see from the statistics above. We still have a long road to go in the development process and we certainly appreciate all of the players who take the time to play our game!

Was there a statistic not provided that you would like to see? Let me know in the comments below.

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What's New For 2018?

^{February 23rd, 2018}

Hey there Hackers, Crackers and Script Kiddies. We have a list of things new for 2018...

    2017 was certainly a big year for Slavehack 2 in the Online Hacking Game genre. Slavehack 2.01 was released on July 9th, 2017 with a rocky set of bare features for players to kick at and break. Since then we have seen tremendous growth not only in playerbase and interactivity, but in development as well.

    Since that time we have seen great additions, like faction wars, missions, complete improvement rewrites of entire features, a new rewards system, loot crates, NPC API's, a brand new live chat system, a ton of new in-game software, collectible items, etc. The list goes on. We have also seen some downsides as well, like Rey breaking from development to focus on work, server attacks, bots, cheaters, spammers, etc. Through those good times and bad times, you, the players, stuck with us. We will always be here for our playerbase!

Let's take a look at just a couple of the things coming for 2018::

Slavehack 1

    With the re-release of Slavehack 1 coming to the Slavehack 2 server we will see some awesome old school gameplay happening with our playerbase. This re-release intends to be exactly like the original except the ShoutBox replaced with the Slavehack 2 Live Chat and some much needed old bug fixes. This is definitely going to be a favorite of the Slavehack fans who played the original and want to get back to a simpler gameplay style with a more relaxed feel. This released is planned for March 4th, 2018.

Clans

    Clans are going to be making a come back this year in Slavehack 2. A feature for Clans is definitely a highly requested fan favorite. You will be able to join Clans of your friends or strangers and help get your new clan to the top of the leaderboard, or even join Clans of your enemies to destroy their infrastructure. Players will be able to create new Clans as well. Clan Wars is definitely going to be a big part of 2018 as we move in to more team styled missions and activities so get ready to have some fun there.

Malware

    As we cruise through the new year, players will be seeing a lot more virus and malware types coming along for the in-game software. More interactions between players is key and builds momentum and a bit of tension so adding these new items will definitely be a part of the game plan. Keep a look out throughout the year for these as they become available.

Ideas Forum

    We have all seen these really good ideas on the Forum and 2018 is the year these are going to start getting implemented. If you put an idea on the forum and wondered where the feature is, then chances are you are in for a happy surprise this year as we expand more in to creating player recommended features to expand gameplay even further and allow for some awesome new features to come from that.

Faction Wars

    That's right. Battle head to head with other Factions to earn awesome rewards and benefits with Faction Wars this year as well. The top Faction in a Faction war gets a special prize along with even more special prizes for the top players of each Faction, so be ready for some hot Faction Action coming in 2018.

    As most of you already know this can never be a complete list, as we add stuff to the game all the time and improve game dynamics and existing features as well, so these highlights are just a few things out of the many new awesome features coming in 2018!

Did I leave anything out? Should your idea be on the list? Let me know down in the comments below.

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Blog Open!

^{February 23rd, 2018}

This is the initial blog post after development of the blog...

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