ColdWire

Version 1.3.0 is the largest update since launch. Breaking a cipher finally gives you something to hold. The password appears character by character as the lock gives way, and it stays with the file afterwards, next to its size, its checksum, where you took it from and the date someone last touched it. Contracts for stolen data now run in two stages. You break the archive open while you are still standing on their server, carry the readable copy home, and reply to your client with it attached. The fee clears once they can open it. Emptying a bank account asks you where the money should go. Your own wallet is the quickest route and leaves your name on the transfer. Sending it to the client who hired you keeps you out of the paperwork entirely. Your crew's treasury takes a share and spreads the exposure. You see what each one pays and what it costs you before you commit to anything. An access log you leave behind will follow you home. For as long as a machine somewhere still holds your address, your heat stops cooling off, and the Firewall screen keeps a list of every one of them. You can go back and scrub the entry yourself, or let the identity burn and start again with your tools, your reputation and your name still intact. There is a soundtrack now. A ping for each relay as the route builds, a low room tone while you work, and the music shifts the moment the last layer falls away. Music and effects have separate volume controls, so you can keep the alarms without the score. Elsewhere in this release: personnel records open as photographed dossiers you can edit a field at a time, servers browse as an icon desktop rather than a list of filenames, crews carry their own emblems, raids are matched by level so newer operators face fair opponents, and the economy and trace timings have been rebalanced from top to bottom.