As I was hacking the International Social Security Database the other day, watching all the pictures go by, I felt something was out of place. A quick check of the name generator (thanks to RedShirtX for decrypting the data files!!) confirmed what I had noticed: there are no women in the game. All the hackers, company owners, and names used are male.

Now, I am not a wild feminist and I am certainly not trying to come across as a stuck up Politically Correct nusiance, but I feel that the game is a bit sexist in not including women in the corporate world of the future. I hope that the game creators will take this into account when making new versions or other games in the future.

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Yeah... I noticed this also. I don't think it's that difficult to stick in new pictures and names in the data folder, but I don't know exactly where to put them.

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Originally posted by Dan-D-Man:
**As I was hacking the International Social Security Database the other day, watching all the pictures go by, I felt something was out of place. A quick check of the name generator (thanks to RedShirtX for decrypting the data files!!) confirmed what I had noticed: there are no women in the game. All the hackers, company owners, and names used are male.

Now, I am not a wild feminist and I am certainly not trying to come across as a stuck up Politically Correct nusiance, but I feel that the game is a bit sexist in not including women in the corporate world of the future. I hope that the game creators will take this into account when making new versions or other games in the future.

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obviously in the future we did what femininsts fear we want to do now. Repeal sufferage and exterminate all women.
heh

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The reason females were not added is because the game randomly associates images with pre-defined names. IV didn't want to have to write the extra code necessary to force the people generator to take sex into consideration as well.

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Yeah. This is why, unless you assign your image a name of image0.tif (or something like that), it'll be assigned to someone else.

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hmmmmm I have red shirt x, but it doesnt seem to do anything to files except put .reds at the end... am i missing something??

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Originally posted by skipper2:
**hmmmmm I have red shirt x, but it doesnt seem to do anything to files except put .reds at the end... am i missing something??

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The Data and user files are encrypted regularly--if you open them in a text editor all you'll get is garbage. Once decoded with RedShirtX, the .reds file should be readable by a text editor. Its not very pretty to look at -- still very messy in MS Word anyways, but you can at least find people's bank passwords ;). The decrypted "Uplink Data" file lists, among other things, all the names used in the game (corporations, individuals, etc.)

I haven't yet successfully edited a .usr file and replaced it in working condition...but I believe it is possible =D

Hope that helps

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If you attempt to edit a user file with a plain text editor, you'll bugger the file beyond hope of repair.

Use a hex editor.

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