The Nethernet Community News

Pick up the new toolbar for an exciting holiday weekend! In fact, if you don’t upgrade to this version of The Nethernet, you won’t be able to earn datapoints.

Players who have earned the Inviting Badge (get this by having 5 invites from your sign-up link accepted) now have access to the first beneficial/detrimental Abilities on The Nethernet. Overclock is available to members of Order; it grants the player the ability to “buff” another player with a bonus to his Classpoints earned for the next 5 tool uses. Impede is available to members of Chaos; it grants the player the ability to “debuff” another player with a reduction of her Classpoints earned for the next 5 tool uses.

If you decide to switch factions and you qualified for one of these abilities, you’ll have the corresponding ability on the other faction.

The most radical change in this release is that everyone will earn datapoints (DP) in a new way. Instead of earning DP for each new website that you go to, you’ll now be earning DP if your toolbar is on, at the top of the hour each hour. We’ll take whatever your primary level is and multiply that by 25, then give you that amount of datapoints.

So that you can still maximize the amount of DP that you earn each day, you’ll now earn 10 DP for each lightpost you pass in a mission you take. You won’t earn DP from taking your own mission, however. If you take a mission that has 4 lightposts in it, you’ll earn 40 DP.

We’ve removed the redundant “Create” option in the toolbar, instead you’ll have Skeleton Keys within easy reach. This version of the toolbar will automatically log you into the toolbar. We’ve fixed various bugs and whatnot, to see a full list, read the Patch Notes in the Forums.

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