>>22670
>mv OP /dev/null
Can't rustle me today, too enthused with progress. Besides, Im a scrub who cannot into linux
>>22756
>https://clyp.it/ha0ap3la
aww yee this is fucking excellent. I want more of what you can do. Please email me.
>>22767
>scaling element
Im happy with this part; depending on the program you can
>1 use a GUI to run commands (babby tier)
>2 run a command on the CLI that asks you step by step for each input it needs (setcredentials... "please enter your account number" .... "please enter the authentication server"...)
>3 run a command with all commands it needs at once, ie setCredentials 12345 auth.bank.com
and I think a nice reward layer will be to give the player the command line versions of programs, so its something they earned, in addition to knowing how to use. Also I think less skilled players might be more tempted to try using commands if its presented as a reward.
I appreciate the feedback about the prompt. I think Ill go with the idea of making it its own brand so it can't technically be wrong. Specifically I'd like to be able to make the prompt more dynamic and context dependent, so if the input is currently being captured by a program waiting for input it'd read
Enter account number >
since I've noticed that switching between looking at the input field and the scroll of text is kind of cumbersome. A lot of messages just blend together and get lost.
About the windows vs linux prevalence, Im not sure right now. I'll need a "special" class of computers that are unhackable, so the player can't jack up systems necessary for missions/NPC behaviour. I might make mission-critical systems Linux, but leave the procedurally generated, unimportant stuff as vulnerable Windows.
The execution flags sounds intuitive, and anon mentioned something about pipes before. I'll probably end up being a linuxfriend after all this. I also heard you can make ramdisks without having to buy special software.
>>22776
>At some point it's just not gonna ring true and people are going to be annoyed
Yeah, this is the fear. I guess the balance will be, functionally the same, up to a point, but named differently.
Some long boring setup in this webm but it actually shows some organic hacking. tl;dr is, changing GET parameters in the browser to access someone elses account.