r/Bitburner

Do you need to get a high enough job to get the invite too? I have 203.314k rep working as the network admin and still no invite.

I'm new to this game, and I'm confused about which server I should hack, now I'm running the hacker.js script which contains weaken grow and hack with 426 threads per server, and I have 11 servers to run it, so a total of about 4224 threads are running to exploit 1 server (omega-net)

Andddd, which method is better:

1. Attacking 1 server with many threads or

2. Attacking many servers at once

Please advise.

I'm writing my own stock trading script, and was looking for a way to intelligently buy stocks, using whatever available money is there to maximize profit. There are factors to consider like forecast, askPrice per share etc, but would like a formula to get a score value for the stocks. For identifying which servers to hack, i use something like (maxMoney*growthRate)/(minSecurity*hackTime).

Does anybody use a similar formula for stocks? Ideally would like a rotating list of stocks in order of importance, and if a stock with a better score is found, will purge (sell) existing stocks with a lower score and buy the new more promising one.

Don't give me scripts, just thoughts and formulas for finding the most promising stocks to buy at a given moment.

After building up an integrated corporation, I found that it had stalled around the 30 b/s mark only to find that half of the materials had quality NaN.

The affected materials were all materials that another division produced and exported.

Unfortunately, I can not clean stock because I can not sell the material and dumping is not possible in this game, either. (Plus, savegame editing feels too cumbersome at this point.)

Did anyone else have that bug and were you able to solve it?

Hi, I just started playing, and I was trying to put together a script that would go through all the servers depth first, nuke them, then run as many threads of the basic EHT script on as it can (just the one from the tutorial minus the nuking that was included), but for whatever reason after going through 2 branches from home fully (which is the n00dles server, plus one proper branch) it just goes "Script finished running" followed by "printf: Failed to run due to script being killed." and I don't understand why it's finishing, and more specifically why it's finishing at the end of the second branch and not the first. Not sure if I just missed something about how the scripts work or if I'm just being dumb here somewhere

/** @param {NS} ns */
export async function main(ns: NS) {
  let target: string = ns.args[0]?.toString();
  target ??= "max-hardware";
  deploy(ns, "home", [], target);
  ns.tprintf("%s hacked", target);
}

async function deploy(ns: NS, server: string, checked: string[], target: string) {
  ns.printf("INFO: Deploying to %s", server)
  const neighs = ns.scan(server).filter((neigh) => !checked.includes(neigh));
  ns.printf("INFO: Neighbors: %s", neighs)
  if (server != "home") {
    ns.scp("eht.js", server);
    nukeServer(ns, server);
    ns.killall(server, true);
    const execThreads = calcThreads(ns, server);
    ns.printf("INFO: Threads to deploy %d", execThreads)
    ns.exec("eht.js", server, execThreads, target);
  }
  const checkedServers = checked.concat(server);
  ns.printf("INFO: Checked servers: %s", checkedServers)
  for (const neigh of neighs) {
    await deploy(ns, neigh, checkedServers, target);
  }
}

function nukeServer(ns: NS, server: string) {
  if (ns.fileExists("BruteSSH.exe", "home")) {
    ns.brutessh(server);
  }
  if (ns.fileExists("FTPCrack.exe", "home")) {
    ns.ftpcrack(server);
  }
  if (ns.fileExists("relaySMTP.exe", "home")) {
    ns.relaysmtp(server);
  }
  if (ns.fileExists("HTTPWorm.exe", "home")) {
    ns.httpworm(server);
  }
  if (ns.fileExists("SQLInject.exe", "home")) {
    ns.sqlinject(server);
  }
  ns.nuke(server);
}

function calcThreads(ns: NS, server: string) {
  return Math.floor(ns.getServerMaxRam(server) / ns.getScriptRam("eht.js"));
}                    

what can you actually learn from this game?

Whats the discord server for this game? Am trying to chat with people about my scripts instead of chat gpt coz the stupid gpt created for me a stock market script that loses 4m per sec while the hacking script he helped me with makes 80k a sec lol

Played it two or three years ago, came back and started BN3 for a bit of relaxed number galore, but lo and behold, it seems the old Tobacco-marketing-pump into sextillions does not work anymore, does it?

So what's the corporate game now?

Slowly building up research and quality while building an integrated company where you actually exchange goods between divisions, or am I missing something?

Design and marketing investment does not really affect the product like it used to, right? And why are all products despite different effective quality levels priced exactly the same and there is very little leeway in selling prices (like 5% or so).

It feels very painful and slow, nearly to the point that the stock market node feels quicker.

And I can not even start to imagine how I would automate this decision process ...

Any pointers what you guys noted is important in v3 would be very appreciated!