Tip here says:
When you make a guess, you’ll learn how many of the word’s letters are correct. If a word has X letters correct, that means only the other words in the list that have X letters in common with it can possibly be the password.
I don't find that to be the case though
Anyone got a clear idea how science skill hacking works?
The following info may not be 100% correct, but at least that's what I have noticed:
1) The skill affects on things you can hack (with too low skill you can't hack)
2) The skill affects on how many words there are to choose from
3) The number of "secret codes"
The secret codes are defined as follow:
"The secret code is characters between pair of [], () or {}. Both the opening and the closure must be on the same line and they must face each other. When such code is found, it may either remove false code word or replenish the tries to maximum"
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Blackjay wrote:When you make a guess, you’ll learn how many of the word’s letters are correct. If a word has X letters correct, that means only the other words in the list that have X letters in common with it can possibly be the password.
By "in common" it means the same character in the same position. So "members" and "profile" have 0 letters in common, even though they both have an "e" and an "r" in them.
Okay, I will use an example of what I have written down on a sticky note from one of my hacking attempts (I've yet to be wrong once).
What I do first is find every single " [ { ( < " on every single line, and see if they have a closing half in the same line such as "(['=(??\)".
The thing about that line that I wrote, is that it can work TWICE. The entire part works once, and then you go to the "(??\)" and it's also it's own specific thing.
After you clear out each of these codes from the list, they do one of two things. Either they will remove dud passwords, or it will reset the amount of times you can try out a code.
Now for what I wrote down on a sticky note.
First thing I did was pick a random word from the list. It doesn't matter which word you pick..and hell, you might get lucky at get the right one on the first try, but don't count on it. XD
SHIELDED
After I picked this, it said that I had 2 letters that were correct..so then I wrote down all the other words in the list that have 2 letters in the same spots as SHIELDED.
Now I don't remember which one actually was the password, but it doesn't matter. It could be any of them. So anyway check your words, and then pick another one at random from that list, or check to see how many of the words are too similar to each other and would end up with too many results. If I picked "DETAILED" then I already see that it shares the 2nd letter and last 2 letters with 2 other words, but it might have more in common with others (didn't look up and see yet). So I will pick DETAILED. Now let's say that when you pick that word, it then says you have 3 letters correct. So you judge the words in your list against DETAILED and find which words only have 3 matches. No more, and no less. I did the work for you here.
At this point you should either have 2 or 3 chances left depending on if you picked SHIELDED as your judging word before or after you got rid of all the duds and got a free reset..then again you can also wait until you only have 1 more chance, and then remove the duds and hope you also get a reset, so you get more shots. So I will go ahead and say you have 2 chances left.
ACQUIRED
OUTSIDER
RECEIVES
Really at this point you can pick at random and hope you get it right one of the two tries, because just looking at them, they all share the 5th and 7th letters together, and no other letters, so regardless of which you pick, you won't get any more clues, but typically I have better luck and if I picked one, it would either have more in common with one of the other words so I would know what the answer is, or I would have picked the answer. Again, I don't remember what the password for this specific one was, so I picked at random for the most part just as an example.
Hopefully it made sense. I am gonna go back and play some more Fallout 3 until my computer randomly restarts..which has only been happening when I play Fallout 3.
If you really have a problem with hacking, you can just guess any three words in the list, and if you don't get the password, just close the terminal and try again. Usually you'll only have 10 words or so on the list, so you'll have pretty good odds of guessing the password each time.
For me, the guessing method is usually quicker.
SWC
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