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| Description | This utility has a simple enough interface hiding layers of complexity. It's definitely not designed for customization, though, with only the option of a simple "Run." It performs some sort of broad search over the Net, but whatever heuristics it might use are completely obscured within the code. |
| Type | Data (Search) |
| Use | The search doesn't come back with any results. It seems those systems have been shut down. |
| Warning | No-longer-available item consumed on use! |
Sources
No longer: 05Cleaner
No longer: Purchase in The Golden Chip for 100 golden tickets
History
Used to require 1 energy to use.
Adds an option to the Searches section of your target list: "Locks on to the strongest signal."
When used (not consumed), gives you a link to a site in the gang network of the gang that was at the top of the Subversion Testing "Network" leaderboard at rollover (?), with this message:
You run the finder, watching as it goes through several stages, flipping back and forth between "finding signal" and "identifying signal." Eventually it switches to "extracting signal" and provides you a link.
You follow a link to <site>.
If the gang with the strongest signal gets disbanded this is followed by
The link leads to an abandoned, dead site. Hmmmm.
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This item is not a component for any sort of crafting. |
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This item can be discarded via the gang stash. |
History
During the Virus Event 2011, this item was sellable, with the message:
You follow the breadcrumbs, finding the Golden Chip's current location. Avatars drift effortlessly through a field of circuitry and floating lights.
A shimmering, metallic figure makes an exaggerated gesture of rage, thrusting its arms towards you as though screaming.
Simultaneously, you receive a long message filled with incoherent strings of curses that eventually dissolve into random letters and numbers.You found: 6 Golden Ticket
(05Cleaner understandably stops responding to you.)