Bitburner Quickly raising your hacking skill on a new run

Scripts Involved

hackup.script:nuke("n00dles"); script = "hackup1.script"; mem = getServerMaxRam("home") - getServerUsedRam("home"); threads = Math.floor(mem / getScriptRam(script)); run(script, threads);

hackup1.script:while (true) { weaken("n00dles"); }

What To Do

It is pretty easy. After you have installed the augments and are back at your terminal with nothing, run the hackup script:run hackup.script It will take a little time at first to really start producing. You could go to the University and study computer science a bit to raise the hacking a little first if you want to speed up the initial delay of the script.

How It Works

So what is going on with all this. How does it really work? Well, weakening the security of a server will gain you hacking experience. At the start, with only 1 hacking, you don't really have a lot of options for servers to hack. The n00dles server is the easiest one out there, only requiring 1 hacking skill and being able to be nuked right away. It also has the lowest security of any server, so it is the fastest to weaken and as a result produces the most hacking experience per second, and this is really the key to it all. We don't so much care about producing anything yet except for hacking experience, and that we want to maximize. As the server security weakens and you gain hacking level, the time it takes to weaken lowers more and more, though you can only weaken it to the minimum. Using hack or grow would increase security and slow things down, so just doing weaken is the most efficient.

To really make this effective, you want to try and maximize your home computer ram, as hackup will try and run using as many threads as possible to multiply the effectiveness of weakening, so make sure to try and buy as much ram as you can each run.

Once you feel your hacking level is sufficiently large and want to use your home computer for other tasks, you can kill the hackup1.script and start doing other things.

This also goes to show that scripts can be simple and still quite effective. This game is about more than just writing scripts and programming. What is more important is the idea behind what you are trying to accomplish. Scripts can make that easier.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2688252775

Quickly raising your hacking skill on a new run

Scripts Involved

What To Do

How It Works

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