- Whenever you connect online, it redistributes your resources between offline and online.
- Generally, a small amount will remain offline and all the rest will go online.
- If you spend stuff for online stuff, it comes out of your online resources.
- If you spend stuff for regular (offline) stuff, it typically comes out of your offline resources.
- This can leave you deeply in the negative if you're ever offline.
- Being negative is very bad and can lead to staff leaving.
- Why do they do this? So that people can steal money and staff from you via base incursions. :(
- It's a really sleazy way to opt everyone in to this system.
- Also, being online introduces annoying lag in several menus, like R&D.
- Presumably because it's checking your online R&D status.
- You get stuff faster:
- You get large daily bonuses for being online.
- You can harvest resources using your FOB(s).
- These may outstrip the resources lost due to theft (if any).
- You won't get invaded until around chapter 20 to 25ish, when the invasion tutorial and FOB stuff starts.
- If you never invade anyone else, you'll never progress beyond the lowest rank.
- There are a HUGE number of people in the lower rank; I hear the odds of being targeted are near-nil.
- And those that do will be amateurs, and usually deterred by decent security.
- Anyone who is a seasoned base-invader will be higher rank and unable to invade you.
- It's the only way to research certain things that require really high R&D ratings.
- You can run more combat ops simultaneously and get more stuff faster.
- But, nothing you need to complete the game requires you go online.
- And due to the menu lag, it's probably a better overall experience to stay offline until you really want to do online stuff.
There's a few different ways to stay offline:
- You can "go offline" at any time via the pause menu, but it tries to reconnect every startup.
- Personally, I blackholed all of
*.konamionline.comat my router, but most routers won't have this feature.- Blocking it using the Windows equivalent of the "/etc/hosts" file may be possible if you know the exact DNS names to block (since it can't block entire domians).
- Or, traffic sniff it, see what IPs it's connecting to / DNS names it's using, and block those.
- Or, just turn off internet before you play it.
- Another way I hear is to refuse the online agreement every time it comes up.
- For any of these, back up your save regularly, so you can revert if things go wrong.
- e.g. if they change the IP, you accidentally connect, all your stuff gets "stolen" by Konami.
- If you lost money/resources online, you can use memory hacking tools like Cheat Engine to get it back.
- Doesn't seem to trigger any kind of tamper / cheat protection.
- Nor does going back online revert your local changes.
- But it will take your resources away and stuff them online.
- Make sure you're offline first, just so it doesn't redistribute it immediately.
- Sadly, don't know how to get staff back, but staff aren't online until you have an FOB anyway.
- You probably technically get the fastest overall progression if you're online, due to daily bonuses + online harvesting.
- But otherwise, being online kinda sucks, for many reasons.
- Not least being, if you're in the negatives for cash, you can basically never go offline.
- I recommend choosing early whether you want to go online or not, to minimise losses.
- I don't know of an easy, reliable way to stay offline that most people would have access to. :(
- #FucKonami