Computer Lab
The Computer Lab is Part of your Hideout
This is your hideout computer lab. There's enough space in the computer lab for two computers. Your current computer setup consists of:
With nothing installed
Computer Bay 1
No computer installed
Computer Bay 2
No computer installed
Change computer setup: Install a (electronic/positronic computer) into (computer bay 1/2) (Install Now)
or
You don't have any computers to install at this time.
With Computer(s) Installed
Computer Bay 1
Electronic computer or Positronic computer
Running: (Update software on Both Computers)
Computer Bay 2
Electronic or Positronic computer
Running:
Change computer setup:
Install a (electronic/positronic computer) into (computer bay 1/2) (Install Now)
or
You don't have any computers to install at this time.
Decrypting
- After installing a computer and setting the software to Vlad's Decryptonomicon software you cat set it to decrypt items that can be deccrypted. Doing so will result in an effect and give you a message:
- You plug the <item> into your computer and tell it to start decrypting. The software says it will probably require X minutes of uninterrupted work to finish the decryption. (Added for X minutes.)
- Decrypting heavily, moderately, somewhat or slightly encrypted swipe card takes 45 minutes on an electronic computer and 30 minutes on a positronic computer. You get either Computer 1: Decrypting Swipe Card or Computer 2: Decrypting Swipe Card, depending on the computer used.
- Decrypting mangled data plate takes 45 minutes on an electronic computer and 30 minutes on a positronic computer. You get either Computer 1: Decrypting Data Plate or Computer 2: Decrypting Data Plate, depending on the computer used.
- Decrypting city map, financial spreadsheet, physiology scan, signal processing or statistical analysis code take 20 minutes on an electronic computer and 15 minutes on a positronic computer. The effect you get depends both on the code and on depending on the computer used, though the name depends only on the computer used:
- financial spreadsheet code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a signal processing code)
- city map code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a physiology scan code)
- physiology scan code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a financial spreadsheet code)
- signal processing code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a statistical analysis code)
- statistical analysis code: Computer 1: decrypting code or Computer 2: decrypting code (resulting in a city map code)
Notes
- Trying to decrypt an item while another is already decrypted, or while the software running is incorrect (for example from another window) yields:
You can only decrypt an item if the computer is currently running decryption software and isn't busy doing some heavy decrypting at the moment. Either you're not running the right software, or the computer is busy, so it's not gonna work for you right now.
- You cannot replace a computer that is currently decrypting.
