I would have done a search, but the feature is currently disabled. Oh well...
The specific mission I am referring to is ShinyHammer. It is the second-to-last mission in the ARC storyline. I looked at the Uplink guide after I could not do the mission and this is what it says:
"Description: First of all, you will need to get the link for the Arunmor Central Mainframe. You can do this by hacking the Arunmor Internal Services Machine and going to the links section. Once you have done this, connect to the Arunmor Central Mainframe, bypass the Monitor, Proxy and Firewall, and break through their security. Enter the console, and delete everything from the usr and sys directories, and when that is done, shutdown the system and disconnect. Clear your logs and then reply to the mail (do not wait for it to appear in the news)."
The first thing I noticed is that the mission description has no mention of the mainframe - only the LAN. However, when I killed the LAN (hacked into the main server and deleted the USR and SYS directories) the reply I got was that the "central mainframe does not seem very damaged'. So I found that IP address and killed it as well - using the same method (cd usr/delete/cd ../cd sys/delete/shutdown). This has killed every system up to this point for me. But when I did the mainframe like this, I still got a reply 'the central mainframe does not appear too damaged'. I replied before it made the news.
What am I doing wrong?
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