HACKING CONTRACTS BITBURNER MANUAL

Manual hacking at the terminal is slightly faster than when your scripts hack for you. Doing a bit of manual hack / grow / weaken against the n00dles server is also a decent way to kick-start your hack XP.You can earn EXP even faster by going into debt with the university, but early-game, this may be difficult to recover from. If you’ve bought augmentations that boost your hack skill or exp gain rate, you may find that just a few minutes of studying computer science at the university (free) can boost your hack skill to make early hacking faster and more profitable.The game makes it obvious that certain factions exist (such as CSEC and other hacking factions) which you earn invites to by backdooring their servers, but did you know that there’s a faction for every city? Factions from committing sufficient crime? Even factions for earning enough reputation with certain companies? Check out the documentation and try earning new faction invites in order to unlock powerful augmentations that will make your resets fly. Make sure to seek out new factions, which will offer new augmentations.Hover over an augmentation to see what boosts it provides. You might want to skip boosts to physical stats like agility, strength, defence unless you’ve adopted a strategy of e.g. Early-game, the most useful augmentations boost “faction reputation” and “hacking multiplier / experience / speed / money”. If you can’t afford all the augmentations you’ve unlocked, you should be carefully choosing those that will contribute most to the stats you are using.If you make a mistake or realize you can’t afford a worthwhile amount of augmentations, you can re-import and grind a little longer first. Save and export your save, so you can experiment with different combinations of purchases.You probably shouldn’t be purchasing and installing augmentations until you can afford 10-20 in a single Augmentation, otherwise the stat boosts you get won’t be worth the loss of stat experience in the reset.Later, the math will get trickier, as you will be forced to buy some cheaper augmentations to unlock more advanced versions. Most players should be quick to realize that the most cost-effective thing to do is purchase augmentations from most-expensive to least-expensive, thus reducing the overall cost. (Your current price multiplier is displayed at the top of the augmentation page). Note that the cost of all augmentations increases by a fixed price multiplier after each one purchased.You’ll note that the cost/GB of upgrading your home RAM is higher as a result.

Note that your home server RAM (and cores) are not reset, so you should prioritize upgrading home RAM over spending a lot of money on new servers, especially leading up to an Augmentations.

to give yourself more RAM to work with) will be lost.

Any programs you built or purchased (like BruteSSH.exe) are gone, as is your access to the TOR network.

Note that you can seek out and purchase an augmentation that starts you with $1m instead of $1k

Your money will reset to zero (so make sure you spend it wisely before augmenting).

You will have to grow it again to regain access to servers, and restore your hacking speed / effectiveness. Early-game, you will most likely be missing the loss of your “Hack” stat. for Hacking, Strength, Charisma…) all get reset to 1.

Your earned experience will be reset to zero.

It may seem daunting at first, but as you progress in the game, installing augmentations will barely be considered the setback. A small checklist for new players who are nervous about Augmenting for the first time.

Hacking contracts bitburner