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| programs:rogue [2021/04/15 08:19] – andrew | programs:rogue [2021/04/15 08:24] (current) – andrew |
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| ===== Strategy ===== | ===== Strategy ===== |
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| Rogue can provide //some// useful information for [[:strategy:exploration]], but safes are generally not the first things you need to find in a mission. Rogue compares very unfavourably with hacking a [[:mainframe devices:Database]]; it costs 10\ PWR and takes at least 8\ turns to use Rogue to locate all five safes, whereas it costs much less PWR to hack a [[:mainframe devices:Camera Database]], and the locations of the [[:mainframe devices:Security Cameras]] is generally more useful information than the locations of the safes (and hacking the cameras often tells you where the safes are anyway). Rogue also compares very unfavourably to [[Oracle]], which not only reveals the location of cameras, but also hacks them and has no cooldown. | Rogue is a bad program. It can provide //some// useful information for [[:strategy:exploration]], but safes are generally not the first things you need to find in a mission. To get an idea of how bad Rogue is, consider that it usually costs a few PWR to hack a [[:mainframe devices:Camera Database]] to reveal all of the [[:mainframe devices:Security Cameras]], whereas it costs 10\ PWR and takes at least 8\ turns to use Rogue to locate all five safes. Locating cameras is more important than locating safes, and hacking the cameras often tells you where the safes are anyway. Rogue also compares very unfavourably to [[Oracle]], which not only reveals the location of cameras, but also hacks them and has no cooldown. |
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| Rogue is even worse in [[:missions:Vault]] missions where it can reveal the [[:mainframe devices:Deposit Boxes]] one by one even after revealing the first chest already tells you where the Vault room is. | Rogue is slightly better in [[:missions:Security Dispatch]] missions since it can reveal the objective, but worse in [[:missions:Vault]] missions because although it can tell you where the Vault is by revealing a chest of [[:mainframe devices:Deposit Boxes]], using it again can reveal more Deposit Boxes, giving no additional information in practice. |
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| So it is basically never worth buying Rogue, because there are better uses for your money and your program slots. Normally you will only have Rogue if you find it for free in a [[:missions:Program Compile]] side-mission, and even then you should consider selling it for 150\ credits instead of keeping it. | So it is basically never worth buying Rogue, because there are better uses for your money and your program slots. Normally you will only have Rogue if you find it for free in a [[:missions:Program Compile]] side-mission, and even then you should consider selling it for 150\ credits instead of keeping it. |
